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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, @06:37PM
Their enforcer, Fat TMB put a permanent IP ban on me. One month and counting still IP banned, maybe he's just bent out of shape that VPNs are a thing? The self-righteous "free speech" ethos of SN is just a thin cover for the radicalization and propaganda that is promoted around here.