[mvexel]

LinkedIn says Fastmail has 116 U.S. based employees. I may be completely off base here, but if you're that small an org and employees feel the need to form a union, wouldn't that indicate a significant problem with company culture?

[morvita]

There's power in bargaining as a collective, whether you're a collective of ten or ten thousand. Either way, it helps with the power imbalance between employees and management.

[JumpCrisscross]

There's also cost in coordination and agility--this is fundamentally true of any new bureaucracy, company, system or process.

I'm reading this as a sign of cultural stress unless we have evidence to the contrary. (EDIT: I didn't realise Fastmail has almost 1,000 employees, with many remote. That comes closer to where structure is merited, though I'd still argue that this points to dysfunction in the U.S.-HQ bridge given only the Americans are unionizing.)

[Vinnl]

According a toot posted today, they have 50 employees: https://mastodon.social/@fastmail/111585249083411392

[dboreham]

> Fastmail has 116 U.S. based employees

Wow. Considering they're not a US-based company this seems amazing (yes, I'm aware that unicorn startups need a zillion people because...reasons, but this is Fastmail not a unicorn).

[kevin_thibedeau]

If they're generating massive profits and not receiving proportional compensation then collective action can produce a fairer outcome.