Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

Post by cholantesh » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC

amazingamazing wrote: post #80

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At the conceptual level, unionising is simply a group of workers gathering into a group and saying we want to negotiate as a group. Usually this is done by workers to improve conditions and to have a better say when they’ve been being ignored or worse, poorly treated. Union recognition is then the company accepting that the union exists and then agreeing to meet and engage with it. Not accepting it, is usually a crap…

There is no evidence of unions performing better for digital services at all. Unions do make sense when physical labor and danger is involved because the demands of leadership contradict realities of human physiology like getting tired, leading to injury or death.

Post by xnx » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 2:35 PM UTC

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llm_nerd wrote: post #119

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The root of this thread literally uses it in the way I observed. So...never? It's literally right there! I see similar uses everywhere (speaking specifically of the general public, not financial industry professionals), calling every misallocation, misspend, or even simple fraud money laundering. Reddit, HN, Facebook, LinkedIn...everything is money laundering. Again, I'm kind of an expert in AML, so I probably pay at…

Personally (n = 1), this thread was the first time I've seen the term "money laundering" used hyperbolically like this.

Post by oblio » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 2:41 PM UTC

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I think all these silly little acronyms and abbreviations are the real cancer. I don’t why people feel the need to use it. Poor communication skills in my books.

SV is so SV-centric that people in SV can only call SV "SV" and assume everyone outside SV knows what they are talking about.

Post by estearum » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 2:45 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #183

ameliaquining wrote: post #172

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Personally (n = 1), this thread was the first time I've seen the term "money laundering" used hyperbolically like this.

It's very very common. Look at the social media comments on any video that relates to fraud, grift, scams, or even a poorly run business. People say any use of money they don't like is "money laundering".

Post by ameliaquining » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

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Another word whose usefulness has been degraded to just mean “bad behavior by an organization”. With “enshittification”, Doctorow meant something specific, where a platform rises to popularity by serving its users, then betrays those users to its business partners to make more money, then finally betrays even those business partners to keep most of the value for themselves. Anyway I guess Doctorow brought this on him…

Doctorow approved the generic use. He said he never meant for "enshittification" to only ever refer to the platform lock-in pattern. It refers to any way that things get worse on purpose.