Microsoft is operating an advert in The Washington Post to say that it’s cool with unions

A New Year Opens New Doors

As we enter a brand new 12 months, we stay dedicated to creating the perfect workplaces we will for individuals who make a residing within the tech sector. When each labor and administration carry their voices to the bargaining desk, staff, shareholders and prospects alike profit.

This consists of the greater than 300 staff at Microsoft’s ZeniMax Media studios who’ve exercised their authorized proper to vote to kind a union. This is consistent with new groundbreaking labor neutrality rules that the Communications Workers of America and Microsoft established final 12 months. During 2023, we hope to carry the identical settlement and rules to Activision Blizzard, which Microsoft has proposed to amass.

We aren’t asking the FTC to disregard competitors issues. On the opposite, we consider it’s necessary to discover options that defend competitors and shoppers whereas additionally selling the wants of employees, financial development and American innovation.

We consider that is the spirit that led Congress to determine the FTC in 1914.

It’s a spirit price holding alive right now.