Is this a reaction to the widely publicized employee departures on September 13, 2021?

While we were as dismayed as anyone else to lose two prominent members of the Paizo staff in early September of this year, unionization had been under discussion for some time well before then. The formation of United Paizo Workers is not a reaction to a single event or circumstance, but to a pattern of concerns that many employees have held for years. The lack of clear policies in place around September’s events, however, has galvanized the movement by making more employees acutely aware of the tenuous nature of their employment.