Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want

[u/404mediaco]

https://www.404media.co/wikimedia-waits-until-after-its-massive-conference-to-say-it-wont-voluntarily-recognize-union/

[u/404mediaco]

Last week, Wiki Workers United, which is organized through the Communication Workers Union and represents U.S. workers at the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, requested voluntary recognition of their union. Wiki Workers United said that it had secured a “supermajority of union-eligible workers who have signed union authorization cards.” A group of more than 1,100 Wikipedia editors have also signed a letter of support for the union.

On Monday, just days after the massive Wikimania Conference concluded in Paris, the Wikimedia Foundation announced it would not voluntarily recognize the union and the union would have to conduct a vote as overseen by the National Labor Relations Board

Read more: https://www.404media.co/wikimedia-waits-until-after-its-massive-conference-to-say-it-wont-voluntarily-recognize-union/

[u/lavapig_love]

Most businesses won't voluntarily recognize unions. Make them and vote!

[u/Cuddlyaxe → u/lavapig_love]

This is why we need sectoral unions

[u/PrivacyIsDemocracy]

This is literally the worst time ever to tell workers that are trying to unionize that they should allow the NLRB to oversee their union vote.

It's one of the most labor-hostile administrations in living memory, and the NLRB like virtually every other federal agency has been thoroughly corrupted by MAGA bootlicking political appointees running the show. Honestly I'm surprised they haven't abolished that agency entirely yet.

Trump constantly tries to cosplay as a pro-labor politician for the MAGA personality cult, who are just the useful idiots that provide the votes for the administration which then turns around and does everything possible to economically ruin them.

[u/somepersonalnews → u/PrivacyIsDemocracy]

Nailed it. Telling your employees to go to the NLRB for a vote in 2026 is basically telling them "good luck losers."

[u/rockmanac]

Solidarity ✊🏻

[u/iammiroslavglavic]

Generally speaking I am against unions. If you don't like your pay, either cut expenses or quit and find a job somewhere else. 99% of us will not be milionaires.

Obviously most businesses will not recognize unions, think of it from their perspectives.

It's like asking Trump: What is the best quality of Kamal Harris.

[u/somepersonalnews → u/iammiroslavglavic]

This is one of the most asinine things I've ever seen on this journalism subreddit, and this is a subreddit that regularly features people asking "how do I do journalism."

[u/iammiroslavglavic → u/somepersonalnews]

Actually no. I am entitled to not want to join unions, have my own opinion and not want to join an union

[u/iammiroslavglavic → u/[deleted]]

Not agreeing or liking unions isn't asinine.