eing beholden to
management is a more certain way for them to be removed than being
adversarial.

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ryanmarsh
Do unions (specifically this union) promote and standardize levels of
craftsmanship or is that still an unsolved problem?

I kinda wish proper guilds would become a thing in tech. I feel they could
solve both the craftsmanship and workers rights problems but oh well...

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quest88
I wonder why they need a union. Is something currently not working in their
favor?

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throwaway10018
Throwaway account because duh. Note that I am not a current Glitch employee,
but am well-connected to Glitch née Fog Creek.

Management was basically incredibly incompetent, for a long time, and were so
unfair to employees at the company that they felt this was the only option.
There is a Tweet stream a couple months ago from someone who left the company
who highlighted the amazing degree to which they were unfairly reviewed and
unfairly criticized, alongside how much work product they were expected to
produce (which was unreasonable). I have enough corroboration to say that the
tweet stream as written is fairly unbiased, and that their experience was
common. My understanding is the employees felt backed into a corner.

I think unions can be very, very valuable, but I think needing one at a small
company that took a series A round quite recently speaks more to management
failure than anything else. I'm happy that they unionized, because it sounds
like they needed to, but I am so fucking disappointed that it was necessary.

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quest88
Thanks for the report, exactly what I was looking for!

This is something I wish had been in the article. Even something vague, like
"Employees reported they were unhappy with management and the performance
evaluation system. The union with CWA will work with management to blah blah
blah".

Agree that it sounds like a management failure.

Thanks!

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mamoswined
[https://glitch.com/glimmer/post/the-year-in-
glitches/](https://glitch.com/glimmer/post/the-year-in-glitches/) > But as we
rap