DistroKid placed 37 union employees on administrative leave an hour before the union was set to meet with company's lawyers for contract negotiations.
DistroKid, the world’s largest independent distributor, has placed 37 union employees on “administrative leave” just an hour before the union was set to meet with company’s lawyers for new contract negotiations, according to an Instagramby the DistroKid Union on Saturday . The information provided in this Instagram post was verified by two employees at DistroKid.
The union says that these employees are set to be “replace…with overseas labor” and that this move has impacted about a “fourth” of the company’s staff. Another source close to the situation believes the total is closer to 15% of staff affected. According to an employee at DistroKid, those impacted were part of the company’s Quality Control and Artist Relations teams.
The DistroKid Union was formed in February as part of the National Association of Broadcast Engineers and Technicians, a union within the Communication Workers of America . According to anfrom NABET-CWA about the formation of DistroKid’s union, “workers at the company were subjected to a ferocious anti-union campaign that included multiple, one-on-one anti-union meetings and near-constant anti-union propaganda. The company president also sent several anti-union letters to workers.
“Despite attempts to dissuade workers, they returned a vote 45-28 in favor of joining NABET-CWA. This effort succeeded due to the unified efforts of the organizing committee, which kept the entire campaign hidden from management until it went public, a rare early coup for the team,” the announcement continued. The DistroKid workers all work remotely, but their union joined the NABET-CWA local 51016, based in New York City.
This news comes after a few years of rapid expansion for DistroKid, which now distributes 30-40% of the world’s new music. Two years ago, it introduced DistroVid, which enables artists to upload an unlimited number of music videos to leading digital service providers for a flat fee.
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