hollywoodreporter.com
20.02.2020 / 02:46
Kickstarter Unionizes, With Goals That Echo Hollywood Guilds’ Creative Rights
Technical employees at Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform popular with film and music producers among others, have voted to unionize with the Office and Professional Employees International Union, the OPEIU said Tuesday. The 85-member bargaining unit will affiliate with OPEIU Local 153 in New York.In a Hollywood twist, the employees’ goals were not primarily around wages, benefits or working conditions, the usual focus of labor organizing drives.