Microsoft’s Union Ally Pushes FTC for Activision Merger Deal (1)

Microsoft Corp.’s newfound support for organized labor has given the company a powerful ally pushing the US Federal Trade Commission for a settlement to allow the software company’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc.

The Communications Workers of America has rallied to the side of one of technology’s biggest companies after Microsoft said it would recognize workers who choose to organize at video-game maker Activision. The union, which represents nearly half a million workers in telecommunications, media, education and technology, has publicly cheered the deal as a breakthrough in an industry that has been hostile to organized labor. ...