antonim@antonim@lemmy.world

Replying to @⁨inari@piefed.zip⁩

Relevant to mention: I’ve just posted a thread about users reporting that apparently WMF has hired a union-busting firm.

lemmy.world/post/50205578

It is publicly confirmed that WMF contracted the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson to fight Wiki Workers United.

(I also posted it to this community but it got deleted by the autobot.)

Edit: I just realised the OP link/article talks about this as well, ah 🤦‍♂️

Also may be worth mentioning the later part of the article, talking about Abstract Wikipedia, a beta project regarding whose future a request for comments has been called. Many editors believe it is unviable and a waste of money and time: meta.wikimedia.org/…/The_future_of_Abstract_Wikip…

lemmy.worldWikimedia Foundation has hired a union-busting firm - Lemmy.Worldcross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50205575 [https://lemmy.world/post/50205575] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Confirmed:_Union_busting_law_firm [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Confirmed:_Union_busting_law_firm] >Confirmed: Union busting law firm >It is publicly confirmed [https://web.archive.org/web/20260801224917/https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-RC-391740] that WMF contracted the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littler_Mendelson] to fight Wiki Workers United [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Workers_United]. I will assume that the Board of Trustees did not know this beforehand, but in light of this new information, I would strongly urge the Board to recognize the WWU/CWA USA union immediately before the CEO and Littler Mendelson do any more damage to WMF’s reputation. This Union busting law firm was explicitly hired to advise WMF and is notorious for union busting at Apple, Google among
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