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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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.
@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.
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@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
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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.
@molly0xfff
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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.
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.
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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? -
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.
@molly0xfff I'm both happy and sad at this news. Happy because the union got recognized. Sad because this implies Wikipedia leadership failed or screwed up enough to warrant a union
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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.
love this news!!!
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@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
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@molly0xfff I'm both happy and sad at this news. Happy because the union got recognized. Sad because this implies Wikipedia leadership failed or screwed up enough to warrant a union
@closeted_unionist @molly0xfff what if we treat unions as the default position and not a remedy for bad management?
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@molly0xfff I'm both happy and sad at this news. Happy because the union got recognized. Sad because this implies Wikipedia 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.
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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.
@molly0xfff let's gooooooo you love to see it
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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.
@molly0xfff Woohoo! #Solidarity forever!
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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.
@molly0xfff I wonder how many trustees the workers get to elect to the board? Whatever the percentage currently is, it should probably be increased until the antiworker culture of the organisation is rectified.
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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.
@molly0xfff yeah, between this and the AI funding, I ended my Wikipedia contributions for the foreseeable future.
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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.
@molly0xfff even this is extraordinarily diplomatic phrasing. If the WMF is at all interested in restoring trust, or has even taken a first baby step to do so, it's flown under my radar. My attitude, at this point, is to pin them against the wall, and that would not have been my attitude if they hadn't adopted a stereotypically evil playbook for fighting unionization.
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@molly0xfff I'm both happy and sad at this news. Happy because the union got recognized. Sad because this implies Wikipedia leadership failed or screwed up enough to warrant a union
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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.
@molly0xfff And Wikipedia is still beggin' me for $2.75!
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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.
@molly0xfff The Union Yes/No Choice:
• You against the ‘Sorry Can’t Afford That’ Man
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@molly0xfff yeah, between this and the AI funding, I ended my Wikipedia contributions for the foreseeable future.
@Routhinator @molly0xfff I wrote this in case you thought it was interesting to share with others who don't like the AI funding.
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@Routhinator @molly0xfff I wrote this in case you thought it was interesting to share with others who don't like the AI funding.
@yoasif @Routhinator I pretty strongly disagree with your take on Wikimedia Enterprise
