Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

Over 200 Wikimedia Foundation staff voted 158-14 to join the Communication Workers of America, creating a union for engineers, finance, communications and other employees. The vote responded to recent hiring and firing actions, such as dissolving a volunteer-tools team and dropping France as a hiring location. The foundation, operating Wikipedia with a $200 million annual budget and roughly 700 global staff, said it will engage constructively with the new union.