Huge congratulations to the US-based Wikimedia Foundation employees who voted with 92% support in favor of unionizing, and shoutout to the tireless work of the organizers.
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@molly0xfff let's gooooooo you love to see it
@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io as a former union member, congrats! The place I work at is small and not miserable so no union needed (for now) but that's not the case everywhere.
@syphist @molly0xfff I'm in a small cooperative but once we can afford to join a union we will. It might be that every workplace needs a union 🙂
love this news!!!
@molly0xfff I'm both happy and sad at this news. Happy because the union got recognized. Sad because this implies leadership failed or screwed up enough to warrant a union
@closeted_unionist @molly0xfff I think unions are like seatbelts. You don't wait for the wreck to buckle up. It's just a precaution that doesn't make sense not to take.
While this was a success for the organizers and employees, the Wikimedia Foundation made the process more challenging than it needed to be, and operated with a disappointing lack of transparency. They have much to do to repair trust, in my view.
Do you consider a boycott or fork of Wikipedia still in order as a pressure move?
@molly0xfff Thanks for your support in (*gestures wildly*) all this. Having so many people show their support for us has really been amazing. I always believed that Wikimedians would side with our union, but when it really happened it was more emotionally impactful than I had expected. I don’t know if any other collection of workers will ever have the leverage that y’all are lending us, and I hope we can wield it responsibly to repay your trust.
@bd808 
we've got your back
