Kickstarter Becomes First White-Collar Tech Company to Unionize

Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter PBC became the first white-collar tech workforce to organize a union when the National Labor Relations Board certified the Office and Professional Employees International Union as the workers’ labor representative.

Accountants, creative content directors, and senior software designers were among the employees who voted, 47-36, for union representation, the NLRB said Tuesday after votes were counted in the agency’s Brooklyn, N.Y., office. Kickstarter, a funding platform for creative projects including films, games, music, art, design, and technology, had 88 employees eligible to vote.

“To my knowledge, this is the first time full-time, white-collar tech workers have organized ...