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Wikipedia staff vote 158 to 14 to unionize (archive.ph)
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[โ€“] khannie@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

excessive employment costs put the organisation in financial jeopardy, thereby people's jobs.

I hear ya, however Wikimedia do not give one fuck about paying ridiculous wages to the top brass. Their current CEO is taking in over half a million annually.

[โ€“] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

$500k/year for a CEO is actually really low for a CEO. Hell, there's some engineers and programmers that make more at some companies