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Kickstarter United Prevails!
After 7 months of bargaining and 42 days of striking, Kickstarter United has voted to end the strike after securing historic protections for our union. When we fight, we win! Here’s what we won together:
- Extremely strong protections codified for our Four-Day Workweek
- Improving pay equity by establishing a salary floor, with a bonus for our most undervalued workers
- Protections for workers in a world with generative AI
- Much more!
Codified Four-Day Workweek!
We have codified our Four-Day Workweek, with strong protections if management tries to force us to revert to a five-day workweek.
- Temporary changes to Five-Day Workweek must be justified, with notice in advance, and a time limit
- Permanent changes to Five-Day Workweek must involve bargaining with the union
- If management tries to force it anyway, we can strike
Raising the minimum salary floor!
The market undervalues some of our most vital workers, and we won strong provisions to raise their minimum salary floor considerably!
- An escalating increase in the pay floor based on cost of living, an average 6% increase to our most undervalued workers
- A one-time $6,000 bonus for the most undervalued workers
- Yearly national benchmarking to push pay upwards across the whole unit
Much, much more!
We won many improvements to our working conditions with no regressions in our worker protections!
- Cannot replace a role with AI, and management must work with employees if AI changes a role
- Strong protections against replacing full time employees with contractors
- More input from employees with a regular forum for business operations
Thank you to everyone who showed support, wrote emails to leadership, donated to our strike fund, and came to our pickets. When we fight, we win!