// THE VERGE — MONDO
The union drive at the Wikimedia Foundation is expanding
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US-based employees say they will file for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.
US-based employees say they will file for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.
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In June, UK staff at the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia became the first to announce their intentions to form a union. Now, US-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining the union drive, but management at the nonprofit have declined to voluntarily recognize their union.
“While the Wikimedia Foundation touts to the public that they plan to take a neutral stance in our organizing efforts, they have already proven that not to be the case behind the scenes,” a press release sent by Communications Workers of America, with which Wiki Workers United is affiliated, reads in part. “When the Foundation rejected our request for voluntary recognition this week, they immediately sent out to employees and the public statements couched in classic union-busting rhetoric, rhetoric undoubtedly provided by outrageously expensive union-avoidance law firms. This insulting and wasteful use of Foundation resources is both an insult to Foundation employees and to the Free Knowledge Movement as a whole.”
In a public statement, the foundation said it believes a secret ballot election with the NLRB is the “appropriate path forward.”