Madison, Wisconsin - Employees at Raven Software – the developers behind popular online game Call of Duty: Warzone – didn't get their budding union recognized by parent company Activision Blizzard, so they are moving forward with a formal vote to unionize.

The vote is step three on the journey to get more rights for qualified assurance (QA) workers at Raven Software, after employees founded the new Game Workers Alliance and got members to fill out union authorization cards.

Activision, which will soon be part of Microsoft, responded with an official statement provided to Game Developer on the unionization efforts: "At Activision Blizzard, we deeply respect the rights of all employees to make their own decisions about whether or not to join a union."

However, despite claims of respecting workers' rights, the company is actively trying to force all employees of Raven Software to vote on the unionization efforts, instead of just those QA testers who are involved in the Game Workers Alliance. It could make a successful unionization vote much more difficult.

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In addition to efforts to thwart the vote, Raven's CEO Brian Raffel is also reportedly planning to break up the QA team and put individual QA testers into other teams.

The move wouldn't normally be a big deal – it is actually common in game development to have QA workers on individual teams – but the timing makes it look like it's directly aimed at breaking apart unionization efforts.

"So long as we are testing, we are a unit that is linked by our function within the studio," Raven QA tester Onah Rongstad told The Washington Post. "Our solidarity won’t be broken by something like reorganization."