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Bye-bye Glitch union.

The case law is that the "successor" company in an acquisition is still held by all the same union obligations as before an acquisition [1]. So the folks in the Glitch union keep their bargaining unit and keep their contract.

Many union contracts also have an explicit "successor clause" too, although I don't know about the Glitch union contract.

[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/ba...

It was dissolved already. Source: https://twitter.com/keithkurson/status/1527310014771130373

Bird-brained move.

Things have been good pre-acquisition, so let’s dissolve the union immediately before we get new management. Fellow techies I beg you: stop being so gullible!

I doubt the acquisition would have happened with the union intact. for Fastly in their diligence, that would likely be a dealbreaker. And I don't know the dynamics of the deal and where Glitch was with other options, but that could have very well spelled the end of the company.

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