[ A majority of workers at eBay-owned TCGPlayer won their union
election on Friday, March 10 and will be represented by the
Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1123.]
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WORKERS AT TCGPLAYER CELEBRATE GROUNDBREAKING WIN, TCGUNION/CWA
BECOMES FIRST CERTIFIED UNION AT EBAY  
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Communications Workers of America
March 10, 2023
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_ A majority of workers at eBay-owned TCGPlayer won their union
election on Friday, March 10 and will be represented by the
Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1123. _

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 A majority of workers at eBay-owned TCGPlayer won their union
election on Friday, March 10 and will be represented by the
Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1123. TCGPlayer is one
of the largest online marketplaces for verification services, card
games, comics, and collectible trading cards. It was acquired by eBay
in November 2022. The workers, known as TCGUnion-CWA, are the first
group of eBay workers to win union representation in the U.S.

_“We are ready to take on a more active role in determining the
conditions of our work to ensure a better quality of life for
ourselves, and a better quality of service for our customers. We’re
excited to finally have a seat at the table, a real voice on the job,
and the protections provided by our union to ensure fairness and
dignity in the workplace,” _said Jennifer Bonham, a worker at
TCGPlayer_. “We strongly believe that by joining together to form
our union we can make TCGplayer a more equitable workplace where
Authentication Center workers can thrive for years to come.”_

In 2020, workers at TCGPlayer made attempts to form a union with the
Service Employees International Union (SEIU). The company quickly
countered those efforts by hiring notorious union-buster Littler
Mendelson to spread disinformation and in the last weeks leading up to
the election, workers pulled their petition with the National Labor
Relations Board due to the pandemic. In January 2023, workers at
TCGPlayer restarted their organizing and filed for a union election
with CWA, becoming the first group of eBay workers in the U.S. to seek
formal recognition. Despite the onslaught of attacks and multiple
labor violations from the company, workers did not back down and voted
in favor of joining the union.

The union-represented group will include all 272 non-supervisory
workers within TCGPlayer’s authentication center, including
Generalists and Specialists across the Sorting, Pulling, Receiving,
Shipping, Operations, Research and Development, Inventory, Comics,
Quality, and Training departments. These workers are physically
responsible for ensuring that every shipment in and out of TCGPlayer
is completed accurately and that they match quality standards.

_"I joined the union effort at TCGPlayer because I wanted to raise up
the voices of my peers and correct the existing imbalance of
power,” _said Paul Neri, a worker at TCGPlayer. _“THIS HAS BEEN
THE HARDEST THING I’VE EVER FOUGHT FOR, BUT KNOWING THAT MY
COLLEAGUES CAME OUT IN DROVES TO STAND TOGETHER AGAINST EFFORTS TO
SILENCE OUR VOICE AND ERASE OUR COLLECTIVE POWER MADE THE FIGHT WORTH
IT. WITH OUR NEW UNION, WE WILL BE A UNITED FORCE FOR THE BETTERMENT
OF OUR WORKPLACE AND SO MANY OTHERS.”_

Last week, CWA filed an unfair labor practice against TCGPlayer 
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the company of interfering with, restraining and coercing employees
engaging in protected and concerted union activity. In addition,
TCGUnion-CWA is currently waiting to hear from the NLRB on several
unresolved unfair labor practice charges which include
the surveillance of employees 
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wore insignia identifying them as supporters of the union by TCGPlayer
managers, as well as illegally forcing employees to attend mandatory
anti-union meetings to influence their decision about whether or not
to join a union.

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Follow TCGUnion-CWA at @TCGUnionCWA

_The Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE-CWA) is a network of
worker-organizers and their staff working every single day to build
the voice and power necessary to ensure the future of the tech, game,
and digital industries in the United States and Canada. CODE-CWA is a
project of the Communications Workers of America which represents
hundreds of thousands of workers throughout tech, media, telecom, and
other industries who stand together to fight for justice on the job
and in our communities._

Press Contact

Alex Catsoulis

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