Posts tagged Etsy
Ecommerce meets collective bargaining: How a Philly crafter helped organize the Etsy strike and create a new sellers guild
September 23, 2022 // The ISG team is ready for the long haul, and plans to take on the platform on multiple fronts, Boyd said. They also hope to see similar movements among content creators on sites like Bandcamp and Onlyfans. “If we had the sort of power, with 30,000, to compel a lukewarm response from Etsy, if we keep growing and developing something that’s able to be more accountable and more democratic, we think that power is going to increase,” Boyd said. “That’s the basis by which we want to collectively bargain with these platforms.”
Unions are on the rise. Guess why.
May 2, 2022 // For one thing, these companies aren’t exactly from your grandfather’s day when activists organized the steel, coal and auto industries. There isn’t much of that unionizing left to do in this country (excepting some foreign auto assembly plants in the South — and that has been tough going). The new surge is going after flagships of the tech and service economy.