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   Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 22:29:10 JST Eliot Lash

   I'm fuming reading this article about how the #WikimediaFoundation just fired Brooke Vibber and the entire Community Tech team. It sure looks an awful lot like illegal #UnionBusting. 😡

   https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

   If you are a #Wikipedia editor, please join me in showing your solidarity with #WikiWorkersUnited by signing the petition:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Workers_United_solidarity

   If you are not, you can still help. Please share widely about this. The article above suggests emailing the WMF board. Don't donate to WMF until this is resolved, they have a war chest already. I want us to embarrass WMF until they cave and reverse course. I want them to offer these workers their jobs back, stop union busting, and put it in their damn charter they won't try this crap again. I want them to realize without their community, they are nothing. We can strike. We can fork all of #Wikimedia if it comes to it. ✊

   #Labor #Unions #DirectAction

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     Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 22:29:07 JST Eliot Lash

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     #Wikimedia CEO Bernadette Meehan would like to have a civil discussion about how "the Wikimedia Foundation respects the rights of all eligible employees to determine for themselves whether to pursue union representation." Wikimedia volunteers, feel free to leave a comment on her user talk page and let her know how you feel about this, here's what I had to say to her today:
     https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BMeehan-WMF#c-Fadookie-20260529222100-BMeehan-WMF-20260524225100

     (Her original comment is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:BMeehan-WMF#c-BMeehan-WMF-20260524225100-Update_from_Bernadette_May_24 )

     #WikiWorkersUnited

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     Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2026 22:29:08 JST Eliot Lash

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     So I just learned there are actually two petitions. I would encourage people with Wikipedia/Wikimedia accounts to sign both.

     https://aus.social/@claudinec/116647016400544254

     Aral Balkan repeated this.