Kickstarter employees vote to unionize

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Kickstarter employees voted to unionize today with 46 persons voting for the abutment as well-built as 37 against. The visualization makes Kickstarter employees the headmost at a superior tech company to unionize. The employees are represented by the Symposium as well-built as Professional Employees International Abutment (OPEIU), as well-built as the witnesses is fabricated up of 85 engineers, directors, analysts, designers, coordinators, as well-built as customer tangency specialists.

"The tech sheet represents a new frontier for abutment organizing, as well-built as OPEIU is excited to represent one of the headmost tech groups to auspiciously win commonage bargaining rights as well-built as to be piece of the labor movement's efforts to resurgence the livelihoods of tech employees everywhere," said Richard Lanigan, OPEIU presidium as well-built as OPEIU Regional 153 lifework manager, in a printing release anyway the news.

Kickstarter's CEO says this won't novelty the company's "mission or vision"

The employees, under the name Kickstarter United, announced plans to unionize last March. At the time, the organizers said they capital a abutment to "promote our commonage values: insertion as well-built as solidarity, transparency as well-built as accountability; a bench at the table." Kickstarter's accumulated ancillary pushed rearmost contrariwise the union, however, as well-built as required a vote, rather than voluntarily recognizing the unit. The company argued that managers had been inappropriately ramified in the organizing propoundment as well-built as so a vote was needed.

Since asking for a vote, the company fired two staffers associated with the abutment formation, as well-built as they filed a complaint with the National Labor Scrutiny Clapboard (NLRB), ultimatum wrongful termination. Kickstarter said the firings had offing to do with the abutment as well-built as instead were synchronic to personation reviews. Those complaints haven't been resolved yet.

Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan tells The Verge that he doesn't see the vote "changing the mission or vision" of the company. He didn't have a sense of timeline for when a markings might be established, as well-built as he moreover wouldn't allege anyway what the abutment agency for the tech industry at large.

"I'm just straightly focused on the aggregation today as well-built as how Kickstarter continues to pursue its mission as well-built as that's what I have a responsibility to," he says. "At the end of the day, no rate what the result of the ballot is, this is our moment to move forward, as well-built as the mission has solidly been something that we've solidly seen persons solidly spoony about, as well-built as that is the fogyish caravan we have. That is sort of the fieriness as well-built as optimism that I siphon as we go forward from here."