Engineers and others at the crowdfunding platform voted narrowly to form a union, one of the first tech companies to do so. “The tech sector represents a new frontier for union organizing,” Richard Lanigan, the union’s president, said in a statement.
The historic vote comes amid growing discontent among employees at technology companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft, who have started to organize.
As more young people find themselves stuck in precarious jobs with variable hours and benefits, some are turning to unions to help secure their rights.
Taylor Moore was fired from Kickstarter for trying to unionize. We spoke to him about the crowdfunding company’s union-busting campaign, the promise of tech worker activism, and the importance of democracy in digital platforms.
If Kickstarter became a union company, it would be the first of the major tech companies to do so. The company has a chance to show which side it’s really on.
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