0251.json

{
    "id": 232,
    "date": "2020/02/18",
    "sources": [
        "https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/kickstarter-workers-vote-form-first-union-tech-industry-n1138006",
        "https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/18/technology/kickstarter-union.html"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "union representation"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "ethics"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "white collar workers"
    ],
    "description": "Employees at the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter voted to unionize. The decision, which was formalized by a vote count at the National Labor Relations Board, came down to a narrow margin, with 46 employees voting in favor of the move and 37 opposing it. The debate over a union \u2014 and whether such representation was appropriate for highly paid tech workers \u2014 had been a source of tension at the company for many months.",
    "online": null,
    "locations": [
        "new york city-new york-usa"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "kickstarter"
    ],
    "workers": 46,
    "tags": [
        "opeiu"
    ],
    "author": [
        "organizejs"
    ],
    "latlngs": [
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        ]
    ],
    "addresses": [
        "Kickstarter HQ, Kent Street, Brooklyn, Kings County, City of New York, New York, 11222, United States"
    ]
}