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chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want

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Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want

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chobeat@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago
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The Wikimedia Foundation waited until immediately after its largest annual conference to say it wouldn't voluntarily recognize its workers' union.
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    Wikimedia is a not for profit foundation. Not a corporation.

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      Oh dude go look up it’s business filings. Foundations are corporations

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      Open Ai at one point was one too…

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      Not-for-profit is still a corporation, and the distinction simply means that they need to reinvest profits back into the company. A for-profit company can sit on massive amounts of stockpiled wealth, while a not-for-profit needs to find ways to reinvest that back into the company. To be clear, they can still sit on a lot of money. But all of their money needs to be earmarked for something, instead of just being a rainy day fund.

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      See: Susan G Coleman

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      Being a non-profit doesn’t make the org structure immune to greed.

      I mean, Trump and kids had a non-profit.

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      Well if not because greed or shitty people in management, why oppose unionization?

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        Greed or shitty people in management doesn’t make something a corporation. There’s plenty of anti-union efforts from the non-profit sector.

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      This does not imply it is workers’ owned or that it does not have ridiculously high payed managers.

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