In January of 2018, Lanetix, a company that creates cloud-based tools for the shipping and transportation industry, fired 14 engineers shortly after they petitioned to be represented by the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The CWA subsequently filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), submitting that the firing of the 14—and one earlier termination—was in retaliation for union organizing activity and came after months of effort by the company to disrupt the organizing effort. (Lanetix had publicly stated that it was a layoff due to the company’s poor fourth quarter and the jobs were going to be outsourced, though the complaint indicated that remaining employees had been told that the terminations were due to union activity.)

In November of last year, with hearings on the case about to begin in Washington, D.C., Lanetix settled and agreed to paid the 15 former workers a total of US $775,000. That’s not an insignificant amount of money for the startup. According to Crunchbase, Lanetix’s funding to date totals $9.2 million.

In a statement at that time, former Lanetix developer Sahil Talwar called the settlement “a landmark win for tech workers.”

“We have shown what can be accomplished by standing together and standing strong,” he said.

Two more groups of tech workers, perhaps inspired by the outcome of the Lanetix case, have since kicked off union organization efforts.