Kickstarter 1st Tech Company To Unionize; Workers Across The Industry Organize
'Kickstarter has unionized, becoming the first tech company to do so as workers organize across the industry,' Business Insider, Feb. 18, 2020. Excerpts:
Kickstarter employees have officially unionized after a vote was tallied Tuesday, marking the first full-time workers at a tech company to do so as more across the industry look to organize. The historic 46-37 vote in favor of unionizing comes after a contentious process, which involved the firing of two Kickstarter employees who were leading the efforts. The employees then filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, which has yet to resolve, according to Vice.
"We support and respect this decision, and we are proud of the fair and democratic process that got us here. We've worked hard over the last decade to build a different kind of company, one that measures its success by how well it achieves its mission: helping to bring creative projects to life," Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan said in an emailed statement.
..While Kickstarter United is the first union of full-time white collar employees at a major tech company, workers across the industry have been ramping up organizing efforts over the past several years. Over 2,000 cafeteria workers at Google's Bay Area offices voted to join a union last December and Google contract workers in Pittsburgh voted to unionize last August, while Chicago employees of the food delivery service Instacart also unionized earlier this month, according to Motherboard.
Short of unionizing, workers at major tech companies have organized around issues such as controversial company policies, pay and benefit disparities, sexual harassment, and various types of discrimination...
More, https://www.businessinsider.com/kickstarter-union-employees-tech-workers-2020-2
