[HN Gopher] Bandcamp Employees Vote to Unionize
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Bandcamp Employees Vote to Unionize
Author : Kye
Score : 16 points
Date : 2023-05-19 21:41 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bandcampunited.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bandcampunited.org)
| throwaway5959 wrote:
| Does Bandcamp even make money?
| pelasaco wrote:
| discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35188953
| dang wrote:
| Thanks! Macroexpanded:
|
| _Bandcamp Unionizes_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35188953 - March 2023 (222
| comments)
| Kye wrote:
| No, this is new. They finally had the vote and posted a new
| update today.
|
| >> _" Today, a majority of eligible Bandcamp workers voted
| 31-7 in favor of forming Bandcamp United, a union represented
| by the Office and Professional Employees International Union
| (OPEIU). The vote results now await certification by the
| National Labor Relations Board, with a collective bargaining
| process to follow."_
|
| I didn't think to check the Bandcamp blog. The post is here:
| https://blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/bandcamp-and-
| bandcamp-u...
| prepend wrote:
| How does a 31 person union afford the overhead of planning
| union stuff. Does it require members to volunteer time?
| dang wrote:
| Ok, unduped. Thanks!
| Kye wrote:
| Direct link to the blog post which I would have posted instead
| had I thought to check:
| https://blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/bandcamp-and-bandcamp-u...
|
| They're on Mastodon if you want to follow them there:
| https://union.place/@bandcampunited
|
| And a Twitter version of the announcement:
| https://twitter.com/bandcampunited/status/165965760038686720...
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