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Kickstarter Shuts Down Anime Streaming App That Seemed Too Good to Be True
Anime Tube raised more than $100,000 before Kickstarter suspended the campaign.
Kickstarter Settles Complaint That It Retaliated Against Union Organizer
The crowdfunding platform, which has tried to distinguish itself as a progressive alternative to Silicon Valley tech companies, has agreed to pay $36,599 to a union organizer that it fired in 2019.
Labor Board Finds Merit That Kickstarter Illegally Fired Union Organizer
Six months after Kickstarter workers voted in the first union at a major tech company in the U.S., a federal agency has found sufficient evidence that management violated the National Labor Relations Act by firing a union organizer.
How Games, Tech, and the Army Use Progressive Language as a Smoke Screen
Some of the most regressive institutions in the world just want to say the magic words.
Chess World Accuses Company of Inventing Fake Employees Using Online Human Generator
REGIUM, an internet-connected chessboard manufacturer, was suspended by Kickstarter after allegedly creating engineers using thispersondoesnotexist.com.
Kickstarter Employees Win Historic Union Election
The final vote was 46 for the union, 37 against, a historic win for unionization efforts at tech companies.
Kickstarter Hired a Law Firm That Advertises 'Maintaining a Union-Free Workplace'
In the midst of a union drive, Kickstarter is working with a law firm that has previously helped clients avoid unionization, but the company says 'union avoidance' has never been its goal.
It Only Took Minutes for Fans to Crowdfund a 'Wonderful 101' Revival
Not many people played the underrated Wii U game. That's gonna change soon.
The Biggest 'Clusterfuck' in Kickstarter History Has Mercifully Come to an End
Due to unforeseeable global conflict over the course of a half decade, no one else is getting their Coolest Cooler.
A Fired Kickstarter Organizer Is Trying to Unionize Tech Workers Using Kickstarter
“This kit is passed between coworkers as an act of solidarity and a signal that there is room to organize at your company.”
This Board Game About Labor Revolts Is Protesting Kickstarter on Kickstarter
At Kickstarter, a new dystopian board game about worker rebellion and the company’s own union busting campaign share some ironic similarities.
Kickstarter Workers Just Asked for Union Recognition Despite Pushback From CEO
Days after Kickstarter's CEO Aziz Hasan said he would not voluntarily recognize a union at the company, employees sent him a letter requesting voluntary recognition.