As far as I can tell, TCGplayer has a workers union, but management has never been happy about it. This week I’ve been seeing some alarming social media posts - made it sound like management had literally brought in the Pinktertons to rough up the employees during their breaks. That seems far fetched, does anyone have any credible sources for what’s going on?
Best I could find was this article on MSN, which simply states they’re closing the union facility entirely & relocating it to another state: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/union-accuses-ebay-of-closing-tcgplayer-office-in-syracuse-to-keep-the-company-union-free/ar-AA1FlJ06
Here’s a more sensationalized article: https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-tcgplayer-union-layoff/
Some more info here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7zWhqVO5AE
This is pretty insane. Ebay moving the grading to Kentucky to effectively kill off the union that the Syracuse team formed. At this point there is an effective monopoly on trading card sales, it doesn’t even seem possible to start a competitor anymore.