Grindr Staff Launch Union Drive, Fueled by Tech Layoffs and Anti-LGBTQ Threats
- ‘We want a company built for queer people,’ workers say
- Unions have secured footholds at Amazon, Apple and Starbucks
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Employees at the LGBTQ dating company Grindr Inc. are petitioning to unionize, extending a wave of organizing among tech workers.
Workers filed a unionization petition with the US National Labor Relations Board Thursday and announced the campaign to management during a previously scheduled all-hands Zoom. Pro-union staff say they’ve signed up the vast majority of a proposed bargaining unit of around 100 employees, including cloud engineering, IT, design, marketing and quality assurance workers.