Twenty-one writers for Lovestruck, a mobile app that publishes visual romance novels, go on strike against owner Voltage Entertainment USA for better wages and conditions. Three weeks later the company and the workers’ union CODE, an arm of the Communications Workers of America, announce a settlement that includes “a meaningful pay raise for every single writer” and other workplace gains. 2020

More than 40,000 University of California employees strike for 24 hours to protest the university’s unacceptable “last, best and final offer” for members of a Communications Workers of America bargaining unit. AFSCME members joined the walkout in solidarity. 2020

A majority of about 100 employees at the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter vote for representation by the Office & Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), becoming what OPEIU says is the first widely-known tech company workforce to go union. 2020