Workers at Dark Horse Comics publicly announced on May 27th that employees at the comic publisher’s headquarters have organized a union, joining a growing wave of labor organizing across comics, games and creative media.
The union, called Dark Horse Workers United, says it has support from a supermajority of employees across multiple departments at the company’s headquarters in Milwaukie, Oregon, just outside of Portland.
Graphic Designer Riley VanDyke and fellow organizer Riley Pittenger, who works in sales, said the organizing effort began roughly a year and a half ago with a small group of employees frustrated by low pay, inconsistent workplace policies and a lack of transparency across departments.