Provenance Record

Well-structured News piece (590 words, within the 400-1200 News range). Clear Overview / What We Know / rally / What We Don't Know / Analysis structure. Technical labor-law concepts (decisional bargaining, effects bargaining, unilateral changes) are handled accurately and in plain language.

All four source snapshots read from disk and verified. source-0.html.gz (Game Developer): confirms the July 15 filing date, NLRB filing, the 3,200 gaming-division figure, and the verbatim quotes 'coercive actions', 'unilateral changes', and 'decisional bargaining', plus the Carmel Smyth statement. source-1.html.gz (Engadget): confirms the July 15 US filing, the 1,600 immediate + 1,600 planned breakdown, and the bad-faith-bargaining/coercive-actions allegations per the NLRB charge; its studio list is framed as the studios the layoffs hit, not the entities the charges name (see finding). source-2.html.gz (Video Games Chronicle): confirms the 440 job cuts (~100 id Software, >200 ZeniMax Online), the July 15 Save Our Devs rally in Montreal/Rockville/Austin, and all three demands (preferential transfers, stronger severance with extended healthcare, recall rights). source-3.html.gz (Kotaku): confirms Dallas among rally sites and 'Maryland is losing more than 350 jobs'. All snapshots status 200, no archive fallback.

Every number, date, name and direct quote traces to a cited source. One misattribution: the article says the ULP charges name a specific list of subsidiaries 'according to Engadget', but Engadget presents that list as the studios affected by the layoffs; the charge-subject list per Game Developer is narrower and omits Activision, Blizzard, King and Mojang. Documented as a correction. No other fabrications or unsupported specifics found.

Substantively strong, well-sourced News report whose central thesis and all serious allegations are accurate and properly attributed to the unions. A single recoverable misattribution about which subsidiaries the charges name is documented in a public corrections record. Verdict: APPROVE_WITH_CORRECTIONS.