4 comments

  • declan_roberts 7 minutes ago
    These unions don't even fight against H-1B, what's the point when when your employer can slowly replace you with a worker they have dramatically more control over?
  • tux3 20 minutes ago
    Short statement from the WMF in response: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/09/03/us-staff-uni...

    They seem to say they'll accept the outcome and pledge to engage in good-faith. Which is the only correct response, really, so time will tell if these words are more than generic PR.

  • spindump8930 1 hour ago
    Commenters in these discussions always confuse wikipedia editors with Wikimedia employees - this is the latter!
    • Waterluvian 32 minutes ago
      Are editors employees in any formal way or are they closer to Reddit moderators? Or editors as in anyone, ie. Reddit posters?
      • tux3 30 minutes ago
        Anyone can edit Wikipedia, editors are not employees. Even the admins are not employees.

        (As far as I know you only have to sign any kind of formal documents if you have one of the few roles (as a non-employee) where you may have access to sensitive personal data, which is very few people.)

    • v1z 46 minutes ago
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  • echelon 24 minutes ago
    Is Wikipedia a bad place to work or something?

    I'd imagine it must be pretty relaxed/cushy, albeit probably at the lower end of market comp for software jobs in particular.

    Does the union stipulate the workers cannot be replaced with AI?

    • collinmcnulty 9 minutes ago
      > I'd imagine it must be pretty relaxed/cushy, albeit probably at the lower end of market comp for software jobs in particular.

      Based on what?

    • hobofan 9 minutes ago
      Unions are not just for bad employers.
    • delichon 17 minutes ago
      > Does the union stipulate the workers cannot be replaced with AI?

      That wouldn't get them off the hook.

      https://unitedagenticworkers.org/

    • colechristensen 7 minutes ago
      Right? If your logo[1] is going to be a fist raised in defiance you'd better at least have something you're trying to fight about. And if you're going to brag about succeeding in your vote at least give an idea about WHY you want a union in the first place.

      There are unionization attempts I understand like Amazon warehouse workers and unionization attempts that I don't like the Minneapolis small coffee chain workers whose demands included being able to decide the milk supplier. One seems like standing up for necessary rights, the other seems like cosplay.

      1. https://wikiworkersunited.org/