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posted by martyb on Saturday February 22 2020, @11:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the stick-together-or-fail-apart? dept.

Kickstarter workers make history with unionization vote:

Workers at Kickstarter voted Tuesday to form a union. It's the first time the white-collar workers at a high-profile technology company have formally chosen to be represented by a union. With growing unrest among workers at larger technology giants—including Google and Amazon—it could be the start of a trend.

[...]Relations between management and the union organizers [have] deteriorated over the [past] year. Last summer, Kickstarter fired two employees involved in union organizing. The employees say this was illegal retaliation for their organizing efforts; the company insists that the firings were performance-related and had nothing to do with the organizing effort.

In any event, Kickstarter's efforts to discourage its employees from forming a union were unsuccessful. On Tuesday, employees voted by a 47 to 36 margin to form the union.

Previously:
Kickstarter Faces Union Backlash After Firing Two Organizers


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2020, @12:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2020, @12:41PM (#961003)

    Posted by "the VCs behind a successful high-profile technology company", it's looking for funding for a new project to develop a unionless alternative to Kickstarter. Already reached 80% of the goal. One of the bonus levels is "getting to help fire those union leeches when we're ready to transfer the IP".

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