Staff at Grindr, the World’s Biggest LGBTQ Dating App, Are Unionizing
Workers at Grindr, the popular and long-running LGBTQ dating app, have announced supermajority support for forming a union. Jacobin talked to two Grindr workers about their demands.
The LGBTQ social networking platform Grindr displays its banner outside of the New York Stock Exchange on November 18, 2022. (Spencer Platt / Getty Images)
On Thursday, July 20, workers at Grindr, the popular and long-running LGBTQ dating app, announced that they were unionizing with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). A supermajority of Grindr workers has signed union cards, and they are asking the company to voluntarily recognize the new union, Grindr United.
Workers are seeking greater job security amid volatility in the tech industry, guarantees against being forced to return to the office, and representation on Grindr’s board of directors, among other demands; worker-organizers also say that their union drive was in part motivated by revelations that their new CEO, George Arison, has expressed support for and donated to anti-LGBTQ politicians. Earlier this week, Jacobin’s Sara Wexler sat down with two Grindr United workers to discuss the unionization effort.
Sara Wexler
What led to the decision to form a union?
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