Engelberg Center Live!

Unions in Tech

Episode Summary

Why are tech workers forming unions? Hear directly from employees who built Kickstarter’s Union about why they thought a union was the structural change their tech campaign needed.

Episode Transcription

You know, something really beautiful happened.  Which is that, people, who believe very strongly, in the right things, stood up and spoke to power.  - Taylor

Unionizing is possible everywhere.  - RV 

Absolutely, absolutely. I think that all corporations and all people who work for corporations are well suited to unionize.  - Sarah

I didn’t really give it much thought.  Like oh, unions aren’t here but maybe that’s fine.  It wasn’t until a few years in tech that I was like, wow, we really need unions. - Corey

It’s so important.  Me, now, I want every new person – I want to shake them and be like, look look around you, look at all this, we got to act now! - Tom 

I thought we were asking for a lot and I was really surprised when we got it. - RV