La ciudad de Los Ángeles es ahora un campo de batalla en defensa del derecho a la protesta. El 13 de junio de 2025, el...
(Read the Spanish version here) Los Angeles is now a battleground in defense of the right to protest. On June 13th, 2025, the federal government...
This year, over three days in late March, four members of TWC Bay Area attended the Game Developer Conference (GDC). Every year, GDC brings over...
In the weeks preceding Trump’s inauguration, the right-wing coalition supporting him entered into a fractious debate over skilled immigrant workers. On one side stood tech...
Yeah, that’s right. Tech Workers Coalition is undergoing a restyling and the new logo is just the first step. If you participate in our international...
As the Labor Notes 2023 Tech Organizing Conference came to a close, it became clear that the Tech Workers Movement is bigger and healthier than...
No Tech for Apartheid: Call to Action On Wednesday, November 8 2023, the New York Times reported that tech workers are facing retaliation and discrimination...
Tomorrow, the Writers Guild of America is calling for an international day of solidarity for their strike. So today, we hear from L.E. Correia, a...
Today, World Eating Disorders Action Day, we hear from Abbie and fellow workers of Helpline Associates United about their efforts to provide quality care to...
Today we hear from Valerie, a leather crafter and Etsy seller based in Oregon. After excitement around the 2022 #EtsyStrike evaporated, she and other artisans...
Research is not neutral. In the device insurance industry, user research gets used to drive profits – or else it gets ignored. Today, Claire talks...
Workers are building a union at Code for America, a nonprofit started in 2009 that now calls itself a company with a CEO. And two...
Last week, data annotation workers around the world woke up to news reports claiming that ChatGPT can label text more accurately than the human annotation...
Today, Kristen Sheets interviews Malcolm Harris about “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and The World.” The book reveals labor struggles and entrenched militarism...
Today, a content moderator completes their careful analysis of how TikTok misleads workers and the public about its overseas data storage and individual user tracking....
Today we hear from Laura, an Italian worker at a factory producing coffee machines, and part of a union that won a 100-day battle against...
Today we hear from Twitter’s former cleaners, a group of unionized workers who are wondering who replaced them. Dozens of workers rallied last month at...
Today we hear a story of swift collective action in the face of bad science. Last month, the Senior Vice Provost for Research at Northeastern...
The wave of tech workforce layoffs and radicalization continues, including thousands of Twitter content moderation workers and more workers last night who talked back to...
Welcome back to our regular newsletter. Today we hear from working artists beck and Katie, who are launching Floating Photo Studios over San Diego’s Hilltop...
Tomorrow, Twitter management will reportedly fire thousands of workers. So, today, a collective of Twitter workers are sharing tips on how to prepare. The Worker’s...
Next week is the start of our first intergenerational teach-in on tech, labor, and organizing. We have 32 presenters hosting 13 workshops and roundtables over...
What do workers today need to learn from elders to guide future organizing? Workers in tech are and have always been historical actors, but learning...
In our last issue, we spoke out about Project Nimbus and what it means to us. Now, as we kick off a week of action...
It’s been months since the last operation by Israeli armed forces caught public attention, but today we hear from members of Workers Against Project Nimbus,...
Karen Estevenin talks about organizing since the early 2000s, including her experiences with WashTech, a CWA-affiliated campaign at Microsoft, Amazon, and other companies. Despite 20...
Today, a worker you might know shares her story of getting an abortion. We also offer a list of resources for abortion funds and mutual...
Today is the start of elections for LOU (LISA Operators United), the workers behind AppFolio’s award-winning property management chatbot. While many were recruited from opera...
With roughly 600 members, the Times Tech Guild is the country’s largest union with collective bargaining rights in or around tech. With all the flash...
People use photo printing service Shutterfly to memorialize their loved ones. Today, artist and writer Renée Reizman reflects on her dearly departed pet Maude, the...
In 2019, three youths in Bangladesh murdered an Uber driver. This spurred ‘app-based’ workers to move from protesting to forming unions in multiple cities and...
Airbnb brands itself as creating community and fostering belonging. Today, former Airbnb software engineer Sahil describes how “Airfam” ignores internal inequities among different workers and...
Last month, user researcher Alba Villamil co-authored a study on common corporate responses to workplace dysfunction facing design professionals. Many of these “solutions” are just...
Last Wednesday, researchers Alex Hanna and Dylan Baker quit Google’s Ethical AI team and wrote letters about how Google maintains white supremacy and inequalities amongst...
Our goal in this newsletter is mutual aid, tech workers for tech workers. The most valuable, enjoyable part of our process is talking with fellow...
People need groceries. Mutual aid projects need systems. Today, Erik talks about architecting the South Bay Mutual Aid project and volunteer network, which has helped...
Dear readers, death comes fast and slow at Amazon warehouses. Workers suffered a tornado in Illinois, COVID worldwide, and holiday season production exhaustion. Today, Polish...
Today, life-long STEM nerd and former Amazon drone engineer Pat McGah shares his experience — from requesting transparency in order to make improvements, to discovering...
Today, Kevin O’Connell shares his journey from pizza delivery to IT program manager at Instacart, where he almost didn’t listen to shoppers. And on December...
Last week, Sharon Goen of Gig Workers Collective in Las Vegas told her story and presented five demands to fix on-demand shopping. This week, a...
Gig work doesn’t have to be so bad. Today, Sharon Goen of Gig Workers Collective tells us why she enjoyed shopping for Instacart over Amazon...
The free software movement aims to make technology for everyone, but its growth has been impeded by systemic harassment and gatekeeping – problems that don’t...
Today we hear from Andy K-D, assistant cameraperson and IATSE member. The authorized IATSE strike, a historical first for “the union behind entertainment” with some...
We’re focusing on talking with fellow workers and featuring the worker’s perspective. But to do this effectively and with more care, we’d like to know:...
While #TechWontBuildIt helped energize tech worker organizing, tech accountability journalism is being powered by the very companies we seek to abolish. Jack Poulson argues that...
Tomás S., a project manager at a digital agency, reflects on the global wage disparities in his industry, and shares his story of pressuring his...
Phoenix Nomi reviews Silent Works, an art exhibition which highlights the role of hidden labor in contemporary capitalism, and reflects on their work transcribing audio...
In the final piece in our series on worker organizing at IBM, we share edited excerpts from an oral history interview with James Leas, an...
Today we share excerpts from an oral history interview conducted with Marceline Donaldson, who worked at IBM in the 1970s and experienced firsthand the oppressive...
Today we share excerpts from an oral history with Dr. Richard Hudson of the IBM Black Workers Alliance. The interview explores how exposing a rigged...
Today, ann haeyoung introduces an oral history & research project featuring interviews with workers at IBM who organized in the 60s, 70s, and 80s for...
As the pandemic enters a new phase, some offices are beginning to open up again and employers are pushing for things to return to normal....
Today we talk with Isabella R., nanomaterials engineer and a Midwesterner who lives in the Seattle area. Until recently, she worked on VR headsets at...
Special feature today: the worker’s perspective from 11 data scientists fired while organizing a union. Their employer? It emerged from the 2012 Obama campaign, and...
Today, TWC volunteer Ana Ulin interviews Marve Romero, a domestic worker and cleaning app Up & Go co-owner. Marve is a Latina that enjoys working...
Today we get to know Zuyi Chen, a Chinese-Canadian software engineer who works in the Chicago area and recently left one job at legal analytics...
Today we hear from R. Leonard, a Haitian-American network engineer who, as a part of his contracted work, has spent time in hospitals before and...
Yesterday, Turker and AI worker Sherry Stanley wrote about pushing Amazon and task requesters for fair pay and recognition. She and other Turkers are now...
Today we have allied perspectives from workers in AI. Sherry Stanley, a Turker who lives in rural West Virginia, talks about worker-led organizing against poor...
Workers of the world wide web, you asked for international perspectives. So, in the news this week, we’re talking about caste in California, farmer protests...
New year, new format! We’re focusing more on news and history, and making the worker’s perspective its own feature. In the news, it’s been a...
Inspired by worker organizing and Tech Workers for Tech Workers, we’re making commitments. In 2020 we saw Uber, Lyft, Instacart, and other “gig” companies spend...
Happy 2021 and happy Monday! We usually publish every other Friday, but we wanted to share some breaking news today: 250 workers at Google and...
For our last issue of 2020, we collected excerpts from the worker’s perspective throughout the year. Together, these quotes paint a picture of the good,...
Last updated 16 Dec 2020 Technology wields immense power. It fosters connection, creativity, and curiosity across the globe. Alongside the human connections fostered through tech,...
Dear COMPANY NAME team: Hello employees — or should I say independent contractors?! (More on that shortly.) I’m writing to you from my second mansion...
Hello, world. This week, organizer and engineer Raksha Muthukumar reflects on the myth of so-called Tech For Good initiatives. She challenges herself and all of...
Welcome back. In this issue, former Uber engineer Eddy Hernandez shares his story about the company’s in-house army pushing Prop 22, and how office workers...
In this issue, Becca Lewis, an academic researcher and former tech worker, describes how far-right radicalization is present in tech companies and how it dominates...
In this issue, Clarissa Redwine, tech worker and organizer, shares her recollections of the successful unionization effort at Kickstarter, and invites us to learn more...
There’s a climate crisis and tech workers are walking out On September 20th 2019, millions of people will mobilize across the globe in the largest...
After eight grueling years stitching together a design career, Vikram Rojo shares how bonds with friends and family, plus ad-hoc tweets, helped him break into...
This week, we’re calling in sick — and so should you. The Worker’s Perspective By the newsletter collective This newsletter is run by tech workers...
Roger Janus, an organizer with TWC Seattle, offers a hopeful perspective on how organizing may seem insignificant and arduous at times, but can achieve wins...
Research scientist, former Google employee, and TWC Toronto member Jack Poulson writes about his recent report on tech companies’ military and surveillance contracts. The Worker’s...
Ari Laurel, an organizer with TWC Seattle, reflects on her experience with the Capitol Hill Organized Protest. She connects it to tech workers’ struggles, and...
R.K., a controls engineer and yet another Californian to leave the Bay Area, talks about quitting his union tech job to do techno-scientific experiments at...
We are in a powerful Black revolution with sudden widespread support. Weeks of protests against racist policing, sparked by the murder of George Floyd at...
In this issue, Kim Tran shares her story of being born and raised in the Bay Area, doing diversity consulting for over a decade, and...
Who calls the shots at Tesla Motors? Is it the workers who collectively build all the products that generate the company’s wealth? No, it’s the...
Today is May Day, International Workers Day, and #EssentialWorkersDay. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, it becomes increasingly clear how much our economy depends on the...
We don’t normally send you an email beyond our weekly newsletter but given the climate crisis, we figured you wouldn’t mind us sending this call...
Workers Perspective This interview, “Hey, Jeff Bezos: I work for Amazon – and I’m protesting against your firm’s climate inaction”, with Amazon tech worker, Rebecca...
Workers Perspective This week, the CEO of Walmart announced they’d sell less ammunition. This follows multiple mass shootings with some connection to the retailer; most recently,...
Since Uber launched in 2009 they’ve gone out of their way to skirt labor protections and treat workers like mere cogs in their all conquering...
The Washington Post on Thursday revealed workers in Palantir are protesting the companies contracts with ICE. We learned that hundreds of workers have signed two...
Workers Perspective I was assigned to sort packages in a tight space between rows of shelves, called “cells.” I had been in the cell for...
Hello all from the newly emerging TWC Bangalore local! Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley of India, and it was inevitable that the first...
Scholars tell UC Berkeley to cut ties with Palantir Berkeley Law hosted a top privacy and law conference this week. Since 2011 the conference has...
On Wednesday May 8, hundreds of drivers, workers and other demonstrators shut off Uber for hours in several cities around the world. The action was...
This week our friends curating and publishing the zine Bug Report! released issue 2. The submissions featured in this issue explore that not-quite-right feeling we...
Retaliatory actions against Google walkout organizers have come to light, including demotion and being threatened that their roles would “change dramatically.” It’s outrageous, even though...
The bosses take control of our products, pick and choose whom to sell them to using their warped moral compass, and then turn around and...
“Uber’s billion dollar IPO is built off my labor” This week Mostafa Maklad, an Uber driver from Afghanistan, wrote an opinion piece on NBC Think....
Inequality: it’s a topic we talk about week after week as a rallying cry to organize our industry. Bosses are well aware that inequality exists,...
As fellow workers in the tech industry, we are acutely aware of the exploitative conditions that so-called “contractor” rideshare drivers are exposed to and their...
This week, Stanford University announced a new Institute for Human-Centered AI, whose stated goal is to foster “a better future for humanity through AI.” The...
News broke on Monday of a second case of Google’s multi-million dollar payout for a perpetrator of sexual harassment. The next day workers across the industry took...
Workers across the industry have been floored by the recent light shed on the brutal working conditions and severe mental health consequences of the work of...
Workers are holding DoorDash accountable for a dishonest tipping policy that shortchanges drivers and puts more money in management’s pockets. In an open letter published...
Microsoft workers have demanded that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith, terminate the $480 million Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) contract...
NYC breaks up with Amazon on Valentine’s day. When Amazon announced it was taking $3.1 billion NY tax dollars and public land to build its...
Waheed Etimad was working full time as an Uber driver to support his spouse and seven children. He migrated here with his family four years...
We cherish the reminder this week’s App Store drama affords us: the tech bosses will go to any lengths necessary to exploit all humans’ data and...
Knowledge of Google’s exploitation of workers is officially mainstream. Last weekend’s Saturday Night Live featured contract workers struggling to get by in the tech economy....
Microsoft’s $500 million “pledge” for affordable housing is a thinly veiled pursuit of profit and a push for deregulated development. $475 million of the “contribution” will...
This excerpt and the image that follows are from Bug Report! Issue 1. The tech industry is broken. For a while, it mostly went unnoticed....
Twenty workers subcontracted with Facebook through a UX contracting firm, Filter, submitted this letter on December 6, in an effort to exercise their legal right to negotiate...
In 2016, Silicon Valley tech company cafeterias employed only 65 unionized workers. Two years and countless hours of organizing effort later, 1,400 of Silicon Valley’s cafeteria...
Two Tech Workers Coalition volunteers recently sat down with the hosts of the Delete Your Account Podcast to talk worker-to-worker solidarity in the tech industry....
The latest resistance by Google workers is a penned letter published on Monday opposing Dragonfly. The letter says it clearly: By building a censored search...
Two Thursdays ago, 20,000 Googlers walked out, demanding sexual harassment policies that center workers, not bosses and profits. Days later, management conceded to two of...
When the boss “reaches out” to ask if we want to help build facial recognition for ICE, we say no. When the boss says shipping...
20,000 Google workers in 50 different cities walked off the job yesterday to protest the company’s mishandling of sexual harassment claims, among many other issues....
Unrest among workers at Amazon continues to boil since last week’s open letter protesting the company’s pursuit of the Pentagon project JEDI. The business practice...
A week after Google dropped out of the running for the Pentagon’s project JEDI, Jeff Bezos double-downed on Amazon’s pursuit of the contract to be...
Over the last week, TWC peeps got to spend time with the author of Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China and...
On Wednesday, Tech Workers Coalition was recognized by Working Partnerships USA with a Solidarity Champion Award for organizing a movement inside the tech industry to demand...
Over two hundred Telltale Games workers (all but 25 of the company) were laid off this week with no explanation and no severance. One worker...
Thousands of workers on strike this week from East London to the Bay Area is filling us with confidence and optimism as we head into...
100 women marched 100 miles to the California capitol in support of Assembly Bill 2079, the Janitor Survivor Empowerment Act, which would put in place greater protections...
On Labor Day, we celebrated the milestone of five local chapters building worker power on the West Coast: San Francisco, South Bay, Seattle, San Diego,...
Hey hey! Tableau! Your ICE contract has got to go! Yesterday we were out at Tableau’s Seattle office with @MobToMeltICE and the IWW, demanding that...
Tech bosses subcontract swaths of labor so they can defer responsibility when workers demand more security and less precarity. For the first time in its history,...
After years of working multiple jobs and putting their lives on the line just to make ends meet, Silicon Valley security guards have finally won...
The boss is starting to fight back. The usual suspects – Uber, Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash, Postmates, TaskRabbit, Square, and Handy – just cosigned a letter addressed...
This week we celebrate steps forward in our collective workers’ struggle: On Monday, workers from Google, Facebook, and other tech companies joined security guards at...
Now is the time when the people who are paid to administer injustice stand up to stop it. The actions of activists at Microsoft offices...
Money, it turns out, can’t buy you friends. Besieged by employee calls to #CancelTheContract with CBP, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff offered to donate $250,000 to...
It that’s time of year again! If you’re one of the millions of Americans who “celebrate” Amazon Prime Day (July 16-17) with a shopping spree,...
Our movement is growing stronger by the day! Over 100,000 people have signed petitions calling on the major tech companies to drop their contracts with...
The labor of tech industry workers is essential to ICE’s continuing operations. Any tool, program, or database used in ICE’s workflow directly enables the separation...
This was the week of sea change: when images of children torn from parents and families locked in cages activated the already-agitated worker to mobilize against...
Peter Thiel exploiting handouts from the government, Founders Fund pitch decks shared over Chick-fil-A, a Lord of the Rings collector sword, MythBusters’ final fall from...
Jacobin Gets The Inside Scoop on How Google Workers Organized to Stop Project Maven Last Friday, Google announced that it will not renew its contract...
Today, we learned that Google will not renew its AI contract with the Department of Defense, after months of employee-led opposition. Over 4,000 Google workers...
Fifty years ago this May, over 10 million French workers joined protesting students in the largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an...
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