collective bargaining

  • Citizen’s Crime Watchers Vote to Unionize

    Citizen’s Crime Watchers Vote to Unionize

    The neighbourhood vigilante app Citizen is on the verge of getting a union, an outcome Citizen’s chaotic leadership very much preferred to avoid. According to the Communications Workers of America, a supermajority of analysts in Citizen’s intelligence agency-evoking “central operations department” voted to join the CWA. Those roughly 70 employees listen in on police scanners…


  • Software Workers at Glitch Get a Historic Union Contract

    Software Workers at Glitch Get a Historic Union Contract

    Glitch, the software company behind Trello and Stack Overflow, now has a collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA.) The news is extraordinary, not just because they claim to be the first software workers to have secured a collective bargaining agreement, but because the lead-up to ratification has been so quiet: no…