Edit: some more nuance here https://lemmy.world/comment/25101191 maybe not si bad as it seems...

This is definitely one of the more disappointing pieces of news I've read in a while. It's not like I thought the Wikimedia Foundation was a paragon of virtue and justice, but I thought they would at least be better than this. It seems like there really aren't very many good employers left in the tech industry ( I understand the Wikimedia Foundation covers more than tech). I really need something global remote, but... Eesh. Starting to think the better bet is to get into independent contracting for smaller businesses or something...

For wikipedia editors, there is an english wikipedia petition with 1200+ signatures going around to signal solidarity with the workers. And signal preparedness to strike from editing if Wikimedia foundation does not resolve this.

Here it is

the Wikimedia Foundation announced it would not voluntarily recognize the union and said the union would have to conduct a vote as overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.

If the union is wanted by a supermajority of workers, isn’t the vote a foregone conclusion? What is the WF getting by making them jump through that hoop, other than bad optics?

Well guess I'm not going to be donating to wikipedia next time they have a funding drive.

Doesn't have to be voluntarily.

Why are Wikimedia workers unionizing? I was expecting a non-profit to be on the less greedy end of the spectrum

Not a Wikipedia link, but we're allowing because it's important to the existence of Wikipedia

Maybe the press release came out after Wikimania, but it was known to the relevant staff members at Wikimania.

I'm not on the board or the staff of any Wikimedia organisation, but at Wikimania one of the Union organisers told me in the presence of a board member that the board had requested the formal vote, and that he considered it a delaying tactic. The board member later told me that it's not that simple, that the board isn't basically anti-union, but that they're following process, and that it's complicated because there are some employees that are directly employed by the foundation in the USA, and others that are employed under local contracts in various other countries, through an agency.

What a bag of dicks. They want a second vote overseen by the Trump administration.

remember this next time Jimmy Wales bugs you for money. Ayn Rand loving douche canoe.

Pardon my French, but why the duck not!? I'm canceling my support until they do.

Boycotting Wikipedia would be one (if I recall that is what kept Wikipedia from trying to adopt the for profit model.)

Another enshitification has begun.