EX Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick recently commented on Podcast Grit regarding “fake lawsuits” that brought Activision Blizzard around 2021 as “wrong”, “insulting” to the accused victims and “no surprise”, a spokesman for American media (CWA) media workers said to RP.
Kotick appeared on Vales Perkins Podcast venture capital company earlier this week, along with former CEO EA and Kleiner Perkins Advisor currently Bing Gordon. Discussing the above legal cases, along with recommendations to eliminate him as the executive director, Kotick talked about “fake lawsuits against us and the riot games made allegations about the workplace that was not true,” his old company was “targeted” by CWA to increase trade union members.
“The Bobby Kotick complaints presented in the podcast related to Islamic fake lawsuits are wrong,” Cwa spokesman told RPS in an email statement that includes links to words and past reports. “In 2021, Activision agreed with a $ 18 million payment with Eeoc after a lawsuit that Activision was sexually harassed and discriminated against his workforce.
“In addition to the amount of money settlement, Activision also agreed to provide anti -harassment and anti -discrimination training courses, expand mental health counseling services for their workers and provide victims’ relief, as stated in the issue of Eeoc on March 3, 2022.”
“Later, in 2023, Activision achieved a payment worth $ 54 million with the California Civil Rights (formerly known as the Ministry of Justice and Housing of California, a reference of Kotick in Podcast) to discriminate against women at work and to pay.”
For additional context: After settlement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, “There is no court or any independent investigation that has proven any allegations. [of] Sexual or spacious sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard. “
“Bobby Kotick’s comment on a billionaire advanced Podcast all insults the active staff, who spoke up about the harassment they faced and was not surprising,” Cwa said in their statement about Kotick’s statement this week. “Luckily for workers, Kotick has disappeared and thousands of workers organized trade unions with Cwa without being threatened or intervened and now has a voice at work.”
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In addition to CWA’s comments on RPS, the Union of ABK workers – a union made up of Activision Blizzard King employees – publicly responded to Kotick’s Podcast allegations through social media. “Injury, discrimination and abuse that our colleagues and former colleagues suffer is not fake or ‘plans to promote trade union members’,” read a tweet last night. “Our trade unions were born from very practical and harmful executives that reacted when they were aware of these situations.”
“The executives of our company did not protect us and often made the situation worse or directly maintain harm,” they continued. “That’s why we decided to stand up and make our company better, a place where we really lived by our core values and found each other.”
“A common misleading information tactic used by companies in a trade union campaign is to confirm that a trade union is a third party that appears and makes changes,” the ABK Alliance’s statement continues. “This is not true. The workers are trade unions.”
“We are not a third party looking for companies to hunt. We are workers who have the right to make our company as best as possible.”
