Our international union will officially empower the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) workers to work together with WMF management to address long-standing concerns, including:

  • Encouraging transparency and accountability on various issues from WMF leadership toward both the WMF staff and the Wikimedia movement community
  • Ensuring staff are heard and have effective ways to provide input on policy changes or annual planning (ideally while in deliberation and not as post-factum pushback)
  • Prevent questionable or unclear hiring, firing, promotion and other HR practices
  • Guarantee ability to safely express dissent
  • Advocate for mental health support for WMF frontline workers (frontline workers are the people who interact directly with the Wikimedia movement community)
  • Advocate for pay and benefits equity that makes sense to the staff
  • Hold management accountable to promises made to staff

Many of the concerns above have been raised by staff repeatedly over several years. Through unionizing, WMF workers can take proactive steps to address them in collaboration with management.