Kickstarter workers vote to form first union in tech industry

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NEW: Kickstarter workers vote to form first union in tech industry.

Kickstarter workers appear to be the first in the tech industry to successfully hold a companywide vote to form a union, according to Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, who is the co-creator of Collective Actions in Tech, an“In the last year through our repository, we found a tremendous upsurge of activism from white-collar workers in tech specifically,” Nedzhvetskaya said.

“Tech company perks, like gourmet coffee, warm cookies, massage chairs or whatever, these things make people feel appreciated in the workplace,” Dubal said. “ But when workers see that their concerns are not taken seriously, all the perks can feel like tools to keep people subdued.”

 

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Good for them!!! Go union!!!

what are they going to do? instead of begging for money now they will strike for it?! a business that is built on charitable donations?! wow talk about greedy

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morgfair Hopefully amazon employees will be next

So now the tech industry will become full of lazy entitled overpaid cry babies........ Great idea!!

Evangelicals for voted for Mexico to pay for the wall, Hillary to be put in prison and for 20 million to lose insurance and against unions.

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