- Employees at Brooklyn-based crowdfunding platform Kickstarter voted 46-37 to unionize.
- Kickstarter is now the first US tech company with a white-collar (skilled) employee union.
- Since its founding (2009), Kickstarter has promoted itself as a progressive employer, going as far as becoming a Public Benefit Company in 2015 to commit to positively impacting society.
- While CEO Aziz Hasan said he “supports and respects” the decision, Kickstarter has discouraged employee unions before.
- Google, Amazon and Microsoft employees have also recently started organizing around social issues.
