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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
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 22 2020, @02:45PM
There are several items at play here.
My company is currently aping one the things 'google does'. Open floor plans. We all really know what that is. Cost cutting and trying to look cool.
I see company after company seeking 'rock stars'. That does not mean anything. The wanna-bees have to do something to attract attention to themselves. But somehow like the open floor plans companies think if you have a sleeve tattoo and green hair in a funky style you are a 'rockstar'. All the real 'rockstars' I have ever known wear button down shirts and can crank code like crazy and it all just works. Companies think they can test for it because they read about fizbuzz and they are smarter than that and only want "mozarts not salieri"! But inspiration does not work that way.
Another item at play is these crazy people sue. They always have and for years and years and years. But something changed in the court system. They started handing out social justice instead of actual justice. Make up some sort of 'we are oppressed' story and poof you win. Companies are afraid of these fools. So they throw up more barriers to entry. But oddly it selects for the crazy people. Because normal people 'nope' out of that crap and find somewhere sane to work. The sad bit is people who need real justice find it harder to get now as they are lumped in with the crazies.
The narcissists are having a field day. We are the victims of it.
One of the tells of a narcissist. 'you did this to me' when you did nothing wrong. They worked to get these draconian rules in place. Notice how all of these new policies talk about how you affect others but never how they protect you? The narcissists do not care for you. They never did. They just have a new set of rules to hold you up to and ignore for themselves.
As for the story what sort of place where having a union in 'tech' sounds like a good idea? What have they done?! What sort of raging jackassary was the people who run the company doing? Getting a union 'right' where it helps both the host company and the works is hard. Good luck on them in maybe correcting some of what is wrong in that company. But history is working against them.