(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:) won’t resist unionization efforts from its staff, its President Brad Smith stated on Thursday, in an indication of rising receptiveness within the tech sector that has been for lengthy unconcerned about organized labor.

Microsoft acknowledges staff authorized proper to decide on to type or be part of a union, though they “won’t ever want to prepare to have a dialogue” with leaders, Smith stated in a weblog submit on Thursday.

The remark comes towards the backdrop of current agitations from staff at a number of know-how corporations.

Final month, a small team of workers in a division of “Name of Obligation” videogame maker Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:), which is being taken over by Microsoft, voted in favor of unionizing.

In response, Activision stated it believes 19 staff shouldn’t be capable of decide impacting a bigger group of its staff.

Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:) has been lengthy against unionization efforts by its warehouse staff and was final month accused of threatening workers over a union vote.

“Current unionization campaigns throughout the nation — together with within the tech sector — have led us to conclude that inevitably these points will contact on extra companies, doubtlessly together with our personal,” Smith stated.

Microsoft doesn’t imagine that staff or different stakeholders will profit by resisting lawful efforts to take part in actions like unionization, he added.