Community petition calls on Wikimedia Foundation Board to recognize Wiki Workers United

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From: Nemoralis <[email protected]>
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Subject: Community petition calls on Wikimedia Foundation Board to recognize
 Wiki Workers United

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    <p>Dear Wikimedians,</p>
    <p>Following the Wikimedia Foundation's decision[1] not to
      voluntarily recognize Wiki Workers United (WWU), a new community
      petition has been launched calling on the Board of Trustees to
      intervene.</p>
    <p>The petition asks the Board to instruct the CEO to voluntarily
      recognize the union and begin collective bargaining without
      further delay.</p>
    <p>During the Q&amp;A at Wikimania,[2] CEO Bernadette Meehan was
      asked whether the Foundation would voluntarily recognize the
      union, noting that more than 70% of eligible US staff had signed
      authorization cards and that over a thousand Wikimedians had
      signed a petition supporting recognition. She responded that the
      Foundation had received the request and would review it after
      Wikimania before making a decision. Two days later, on 27 July,
      the Foundation announced that it would not voluntarily recognize
      the union.=C2=A0The Foundation's statement says that, while it resp=
ects
      employees' right to unionize, it believes the appropriate path is
      a secret-ballot election conducted by the US National Labor
      Relations Board (NLRB) before recognition is considered.</p>
    <p><span>Wiki Workers United has announced that it already has the
        support of a supermajority of eligible US-based employees
        through signed authorization cards. We believe voluntary
        recognition would have respected that democratic choice without
        requiring a lengthy election process.=C2=A0Instead, the Foundatio=
n's
        decision to require an NLRB election has raised concerns that
        the process will be unnecessarily prolonged, consume additional
        staff time and donor resources, and further damage trust between
        the Foundation, its employees, and the Wikimedia community. We
        also believe that Foundation's public messaging is inconsistent
        with its stated support for workers' right to organize.</span></p=
>
    <p>The Board of Trustees now has an opportunity to prevent this
      dispute from escalating further.=C2=A0Voluntarily recognizing Wiki
      Workers United would help rebuild trust between the Foundation,
      its staff, and the Wikimedia community, while avoiding a prolonged
      dispute that risks causing lasting damage to the Foundation's
      reputation and its relationship with volunteers and donors.</p>
    <p class=3D"isSelectedEnd"><span>If you believe the Wikimedia
        Foundation should voluntarily recognize Wiki Workers United,
        please consider signing the petition:<br>
      </span></p>
    <ul>
      <li class=3D"isSelectedEnd"><span><a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext=
" href=3D"https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026_recognize_Wiki_Workers_Uni=
ted_petition">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2026_recognize_Wiki_Workers=
_United_petition</a></span></li>
    </ul>
    <p><span>You can help by sharing it with your local Wikimedia
        communities, affiliates, and fellow contributors. The more
        people who are aware of this issue, the stronger the message
        that respecting workers' right to organize and maintaining trust
        within the Wikimedia movement matter to all of us.</span></p>
    <p><span>In solidarity!</span></p>
    <p><span>- Nemoralis.</span></p>
    <p><span>[1]:
<a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"https://wikimediafoundation.or=
g/news/2026/07/27/statement-cwa-recognition-request/">https://wikimediafo=
undation.org/news/2026/07/27/statement-cwa-recognition-request/</a></span=
></p>
    <p><span>[2]:
<a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"https://commons.wikimedia.org/=
wiki/File:Questions_for_Bernadette_Meehan_regarding_the_WMF%27s_recogniti=
on_of_Wiki_Works_United.webm">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Que=
stions_for_Bernadette_Meehan_regarding_the_WMF%27s_recognition_of_Wiki_Wo=
rks_United.webm</a></span></p>
    <p>[3]:
<a class=3D"moz-txt-link-freetext" href=3D"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/=
Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#Recent_questions_about_the_Foundation_and_US=
_unionization_request">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pu=
mp_(WMF)#Recent_questions_about_the_Foundation_and_US_unionization_reques=
t</a><br>
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