Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
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Re: Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
#2Commenters in these discussions always confuse wikipedia editors with Wikimedia employees - this is the latter!
Re: Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
#3Commenters in these discussions always confuse wikipedia editors with Wikimedia employees - this is the latter!
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Re: Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
#4Commenters in these discussions always confuse wikipedia editors with Wikimedia employees - this is the latter!
Are editors employees in any formal way or are they closer to Reddit moderators? Or editors as in anyone, ie. Reddit posters?
Re: Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
#5Commenters in these discussions always confuse wikipedia editors with Wikimedia employees - this is the latter!
Are editors employees in any formal way or are they closer to Reddit moderators? Or editors as in anyone, ie. Reddit posters?
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.)
Re: Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
#6Is 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?
Re: Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
#7Short 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.
Re: Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
#8Is 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?
> Does the union stipulate the workers cannot be replaced with AI?
That wouldn't get them off the hook.
Re: Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
#9Is 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?
> Does the union stipulate the workers cannot be replaced with AI? That wouldn't get them off the hook. https://unitedagenticworkers.org/
Is that site a joke?
Re: Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
#10Is 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?
Unions are not just for bad employers.