The union drive at the Wikimedia Foundation is expanding

<figure> <img alt="Wikipedia logo on a grey background." data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/02/STK037_WIKIPEDIA_B.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">In June, UK staff at the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia became the first to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/956237/wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-staff-unionization-volunteer-editor-strike">announce their intentions to form a union</a>. Now, US-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation are joining the union drive, but management at the nonprofit have declined to voluntarily recognize their union.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">"While the Wikimedia Foundation touts to the public that they plan to take a neutral stance in our organizing efforts, they have already proven that not to be the case behind the scenes," a press release sent by Communications Workers of America, with which Wiki Workers United is affiliated, <a href="https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/wiki-workers-united-uscwa-will-file-nlrb-election-after-wikimedia-foundation-declines">reads in part</a>. "When the Foundation rejected our request for voluntary r …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/972182/wikipedia-wikimedia-foundation-union-editor-strike">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>