Tech Workers Coalition

Watching, waiting, commiserating...

Can unions protect workers from future layoffs? In the latest issue of Laid0ff, Melanie Ehrenkranz interviews Kelsi Trinidad, who was let go from her role as manager of newsletter strategy at GQ for nearly three years. "I really believe in unions and their ability to be your advocate, defense, and all-around support when it comes to creating the workplace you’d like to be a part of. I think people often think about wages when they think of unions. That’s a large part of it, but unions can also negotiate the number of gender-neutral bathrooms in your workplace, how to hold companies accountable for diverse hiring and promotion goals, and if your insurance plan will cover things like IVF and gender-affirming care. These are all things you’d likely have no say in without a union. Even though I was eventually laid off, the negotiations by the union allowed six months to prepare for it and to find another job, which in a really tough job market was necessary." https://lnkd.in/gXeRvDRj

On Oct. 24, we gathered in front of Meta's office at 50 Hudson to honor the 150+ family members of Meta employees martyred in Gaza, and speak out against Meta's silencing of their memories and of those still living in Palestine. Meta censors Palestine on Instagram and Facebook, provides data on Palestinians to apartheid Israel, and silences employees speaking out against discrimination and injustice. We are here to say that we will not be silenced and we will not allow the silencing of Palestine. Thank you to all our speakers who are bravely speaking out and uplifting the voice of the voiceless in Palestine. Follow us on Instagram @MetaStopCensoringPalestine for more content from the vigil + speak-out.

Over a year into the genoc!de in Gaza, Big Tech’s complicity has become more and more evident, and more tech workers are standing in solidarity with Palestine. Big Tech has exceedingly responded to this workplace advocacy with suppressive tactics like censorship, arrests, and firings. Join 7amleh and Tech Workers Coalition on November 21st at 1pm EST to hear stories from workers and an analysis of Big Tech’s human rights violations. Register: https://lnkd.in/d42ypu2M

To build a revolutionary movement, we must act on our collective power. As the largest coalition of tech workers, TWC continues to be committed to organizing for a better world. Ahead of a second Trump presidency, workers are feeling the brunt of exploitation and alienation. Tech billionaires are fueling the erosion of worker protections, stagnating wages, layoffs, algorithmic bias, destroying the environment with AI, and extreme, extreme violence. But, what is manufactured can also be destroyed. And in its place, a better world built on community and care. Workers rights have always been hard one. Together, we are able to fight — because the only way to win, is to fight. We invite you to join us?on Tuesday, November 19th (5pm PT / 8pm ET)?for a deeper analysis of this historic moment, and a clear path to get active in the tech worker movement. Register now! https://lnkd.in/gAaMQ-Xi

"The Alphabet Workers Union-CWA calls on tech workers everywhere to get organized and resist Trump’s war on workers in 2025. Together we are building unshakeable power at our company that cannot be disrupted by anti-worker presidents, power-hungry Silicon Valley oligarchs, or Big Tech monopolists. We are charging ahead into 2025 with a bold vision of organizing for job security in our workplaces and advocating publicly for equity and respect for workers everywhere. Big Tech is deeply complicit in Donald Trump’s return to power. Silicon Valley’s richest men unapologetically went for Trump in this election, led by Elon Musk, who spent hundreds of millions to install an administration that will further enrich himself and immiserate nonunion Tesla workers. Behind him were many others, however, who might have harbored reactionary politics in the past, but this time gave the green light to go full MAGA: Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Marc Andreesen, just to name a few of the richest and most odious. The MAGA tech titans and corporate platforms will now get their wish. The first Trump presidential term was unrelentingly hostile to worker power. A second term will unleash a more comprehensive war on workers’ rights. At Trump’s direction the federal agency entrusted with protecting worker power, the NLRB, will turn to depleting it. Already we have seen big companies, Amazon included, attack the very foundations of American labor law in the courts. There’s no telling, with four more years of Trump Supreme Court appointees, where that will end. The Alphabet Workers Union calls on all tech workers to join us, at Alphabet and elsewhere: get organized and fight back!" Full press release: https://lnkd.in/gdBbjf64 Organize your workplace: https://code-cwa.org/ Plug into the global organizing movement: https://lnkd.in/gveRNG-a

If you’re in San Francisco, come support striking New York Times Tech Guild workers during their ongoing strike against unfair labor practices. This is a great way to practice solidarity across workers and companies and get used to showing up for each other during the coming anti-worker challenges that lay ahead of us in the US. Tomorrow, Nov. 7th!

Together we are building unshakeable power at our company that cannot be disrupted by anti-worker presidents, power-hungry Silicon Valley oligarchs, or Big Tech monopolists. The Alphabet Workers Union calls on all tech workers to join us: get organized and fight back! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gyW2FhJR

It's official. Hundreds of tech workers at The New York Times are on strike in protest of unfair labor practices. Just one day before the US elections, management stubbornly chooses to put their digital operations—including the high traffic election needle, mobile alerts, Wordle, the audio app—at risk, rather than solidify a fair contract. Show your solidarity with the striking workers by showing up to the picket line at Times HQ between 9am and 6pm EST, and limiting your use of Times features, including your daily games. Yes, even if means you lose your streak!

Workers at PayPal have been retaliated against and fired for speaking up against genocide and expressing solidarity with the people of Palestine. "I published the letter to our internal network. The employee signatures were stacking up. Within a couple days, I was terminated while out on PTO—and the letter’s internal link was redirected to the code of conduct. I was neither the first nor the last. More employees have been reprimanded, given final warnings, and fired. Censorship of political expressions has been clearly partisan. Watermelon emojis are censored and punished, but pro-war expression, organizing, and influencing is unchecked."