Support Polygon Workers and the Vox Media Union

On Thursday, May 1, Vox Media announced the sale of beloved video game site Polygon to Valnet, a controversial Canadian media company The sale came without warning, and Valnet has decided to lay off the majority of Polygon's staff.

We are crushed to lose our talented co-workers, many of whom are pioneers of video game journalism and whose work took it to a new level.As we continue bargaining with Vox Media, with our contact set to expire in June, we are grateful to have industry-leading severance language in our collective bargaining agreement.

This GoFundMe is being organized by a committee of members of the Vox Media Union. All funds raised will directly benefit the union members impacted by the May 1 layoffs, and all funds raised will be distributed in equal shares to those who opt-in to receive funds. The organizers of this fund will be reaching out to those impacted by the layoffs in the coming days with details about how to sign up for their share of the funds.

Our union is committed to standing together in support of our colleagues who were laid off, and will hold management accountable for how these layoffs were conducted. With these funds, we hope to ease the financial burden that these layoffs have placed on our colleagues, some of whom are pregnant or currently out on parental leave, in a time of historic inflation and swirling economic uncertainty.

The Vox Media Union layoff fund is being overseen by a committee of Vox Media Union members, including Ashok Selvam, Jaya Saxena, and Amy McCarthy. The fund will operate transparently, with full accounting of all donations that are received and distributed.