NLRB

Wikimedia staff organizing a union now face an argument about process: management wants an NLRB election, while critics read the hiring of a labor firm as a signal about power. The thread turned a procedural dispute into a question about what a donor-funded institution owes its employees.

Workers at the maker of Magic: The Gathering and D&D won NLRB recognition for their union, UWOTC-CWA.

A Wizards employee in the thread, speaking for himself, said he'd survived years of tech layoffs without one; another reader argued the win is real but exposes how oddly narrow US labor law makes such unions compared to Europe's industry-wide bargaining.