Kickstarter United

After returning from our historic strike and getting our bearings back at work again, our bargaining unit voted to ratify our second contract on December 5th, 2025

BOYCOTT ALERT. @sbworkersunited.org deserve a fair contract. Starbucks can’t be trusted to serve good coffee until there’s a union contract. Delete your app and find a local coffee shop! #NoContractNoCoffee

I'm on this @techworkerscoalition.org panel repping @kickstarterunited.org next week, if you were at Circuit Breakers last year, it's an extension of the talk of the same name. You can register for it here: twcl.ink/twc-edu-june...

Our CEO recently shared that working remotely allows her to care for her 85-year-old mother. But for our coworker and fellow unit member, Rich, that’s not an option. Despite being the primary caretaker for his father, his remote accommodations have been abruptly rejected. His appeal? Denied.

What's disgusting? Union busting! AWU members in NYC came out to Brooklyn Borough Hall last Friday to rally against retaliation with our fellow unionized tech workers @kickstarterunited.org! Since workers won their strike last year, Kickstarter has fired FOUR union leaders in retaliation.

Proud to stand with workers always! This morning, I joined my own union, @opeiulocal153.bsky.social, for a rally to celebrate the organizing work of @kickstarterunited.org and to call out Kickstarter's horrible union-busting retaliation against their workers. Solidarity forever! 🥖🌹

NYC! Friday, May 8th, at 10:30 am, we're holding a rally on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall calling for the reinstatement of our laid off union leaders. Please join us!

I consider the oral history of @kickstarterunited.org a foundational resource for organizing in the tech industry and I hope our stories from unionizing at Mapbox can be too: www.kickstarter.com/projects/cla...

The 32 hour work week is the future! Proud OPEIU is leading the charge on this. @opeiulocal153.bsky.social @kickstarterunited.org

Tell NYT to do the right thing and give Rich the remote accommodation he needs: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Rich is a skilled engineer and has successfully been working remotely for over six years, but despite the fact that our contract protects remote requests for this exact type of caregiving situation, the company is demanding he return to the office, leaving his father without essential care.

Today, NYT celebrates their successes from the past year, but we are witnessing a major failure of leadership: @nytimes.com mgmt is denying one of our members, Rich Quan, permission to continue working remote, even as a certified caregiver for his 96-year-old father, who suffers from Alzheimer's.

Four members of @kickstarterunited.org who played an active role in the November 2025 labor strike have been laid off, with one member forced out of the bargaining unit. The union has filed unfair labor practice charges against Kickstarter, alleging anti-union retaliation.

Please join our rally today! bsky.app/profile/kick...

We are hosting a virtual rally this Friday, 2/27 at 12pm ET on Zoom. Join us to hear from our speakers and support the re-instatement of unit members who Kickstarter retaliated against, 3 months after our historic 42-day remote strike won our latest contract bit.ly/ksrurally

KSRU members are facing retaliation for legally-protected activity after a historic 42 day long strike in October/November of last year. On February 11, 2026, Kickstarter targeted union members who took an active role in the strike, laying off four people and moving one out of the bargaining unit.

Despite being back at work, Kickstarter is retaliating against our teammates for our legally-protected strike action from last year. Tell Kickstarter’s CEO this is both ILLEGAL and UNACCEPTABLE

“I have a lot more in common with someone who’s working in a whole other industry, who does something completely different than I do, than I do with the technocrat billionaires,” said Arleigh Atkinson, a software engineer at Kickstarter. @kickstarterunited.org @opeiulocal153.bsky.social

Our Code for America friends are asking for support! Please sign their petition to their executive team urging them to reach a fair contract: actionnetwork.org/letters/fair...

This is starting now!

While we’re working towards the end of the year, the folks who brought you the Twitch streams during our strike were going to get together and play some one-shot encounters tomorrow at 2 pm ET. Join us on Twitch twitch.tv/kickstarteru...

Shout out to another sibling union in @opeiulocal153.bsky.social: @backmakersunited.bsky.social are the union of workers at Back Market, and they just got voluntary recognition www.opeiulocal153.org/news/back-ma...

Philly is turning OUT today! ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽🔥 Starbucks hasn't given us a proposal in almost a YEAR. They know we need fair pay, better staffing, and an end to union-busting. Starbucks can’t ignore us any longer. And this is just the beginning! #NoContractNoCoffee

Workers with @kickstarterunited.org end their six-week strike victorious, enshrining 4-day work weeks and salary floors while also adding protections against gen AI replacing human labor.

We had the idea to celebrate the project of our contract ending with fireworks, a lot like the confetti that plays when your own Kickstarter project finishes funding kickstarterunited.org

Solidarity forever! Congratulations to @kickstarterunited.org / @opeiulocal153.bsky.social on winning a 42 day strike that protects and codifies their four-day workweek! When we fight, we win.

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

This is starting right...meow 😺

Today, Wednesday, November 12th, in about 2 hours, we're hosting @meowwolfworkers.bsky.social president Roz Rosvold on our virtual public picket line. Join us on Zoom at 2 pm EST kickstarterunited.org/picket/

😭😭😭 it was so good to have Marie on our public picket line today!

Today, November 10th, on the 40th day of our strike, we're welcoming Kai Fritz from @sbworkersunited.org to our virtual public picket line! Join us on Zoom at 2:30 pm EST: kickstarterunited.org/picket/

This starts right now!

Apologies for the last-minute cancellation, we need to postpone our D&D Twitch stream. Stay tuned for our virtual picket though!

Today, Thursday, November 6th at 3 pm ET, we're going to have RV Dougherty on our public picket line. RV wasn't just one of our original organizers but went on to become a staff organizer at OPEIU! Join us on Zoom kickstarterunited.org/picket/

Today, Wednesday, November 5th, we have Wythe Marschall, writer, TTRPG author, and anthropologist, joining us on our virtual public picket line. Join us at 2 pm ET (note: this is earlier than our usual public pickets) kickstarterunited.org/picket

We're live with a short stream and some Timeguessr! www.twitch.tv/kickstarteru...

Today, Wednesday, November 5th, we have Wythe Marschall, writer, TTRPG author, and anthropologist, joining us on our virtual public picket line. Join us at 2 pm ET (note: this is earlier than our usual public pickets) kickstarterunited.org/picket

The @nytguildtech.bsky.social have been steadfast allies of ours throughout this whole thing and instrumental to showing us how to strike!

Collective action is not easy, but it brings results. Fight the fight, show up for each other - we can keep pushing for better. ✊💪

One year ago we took a step into the unknown as a unit. We walked out on a ULP strike, fighting for just cause, fair wages, and remote worker protections. A supermajority of our unit participated in this historic action, and it worked - we won our first contract.

The mayor elect of NYC has supported @kickstarterunited.org’s contract campaign and that’s pretty fucking cool

Starting now!

Live now on Twitch!

Today, November 4th, we have two guests joining us on our virtual public picket line. At 2:30 pm ET, Dr. Juliet Schor who wrote a bestselling book about the 4 day work week, and at 3 pm we have another of our original organizers, Amy Ciavolino. Join us on Zoom at kickstarterunited.org/picket

Starting now!

Our streaming schedule for the week of November 3rd! We're hopefully wrapping up our one-shot and then doing some encounters from the Deck of Old School Encounter by Kickstarter creator Phil Reed! Follow us on www.twitch.tv/kickstarteru... to know when we go live!

Today, November 3rd, at 3 pm ET, we'll have journalist and podcaster Alex Goldman speaking on our virtual public picket line! Join us on Zoom at kickstarterunited.org/picket/

I was on the Union or Bust podcast talking about @kickstarterunited.org and our strike, great chat with Juan and Chris! www.youtube.com/watch?v=letI...

Today, October 30th, we're welcoming Danielle Nasr to our virtual public picket line. Danielle's been helping us organize throughout this contract fight and we're excited to hear from her! Join us at 3 pm ET at kickstarterunited.org/picket/

Starting now! twitch.tv/kickstarteru...