Worker activism in tech is back. It's starting with opposition to ICE, but I think it will spill over into other areas. This thread will share what's happened recently and what I think might be next. As well as ways for folks to get involved if they want to.

If you or someone you know works at a tech company and want to begin organizing, hit up @techworkerscoalition.org TODAY. We got events in SF (techworkerscoalition.org/events/bay-a...), Portland (techworkerscoalition.org/events/portl...) and more: techworkerscoalition.org/events/

🎟️ Early Tickets are live! 💪🏼 CableResist.de conference! ❤️ Repost plz 📍10-12 April 2026, Berlin ❌ We have enough of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Tesla, OpenAI, Nvidia etc 👉 Topics 🏙 Urban politics 💧Water and resources 🧑‍💻Labour 🔋Climate and energy 🔫 Militarization ❗️Fascism 💜 Feminism 🔮Futures

New from @noamscheiber.bsky.social, featuring @emilymazo.bsky.social @js-tan.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org @alphabetworkersunion.org & many more: “tech worker activism has continued amid the crackdown, albeit more cautiously” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

Workers at @rockstargames.com plus members of @demsocialists.bsky.social, @industrialworker.bsky.social, @uaw.org, @cwaunion.bsky.social, @techworkerscoalition.org let management in the US and UK know that an injury to one is an injury to all. 🧵

Game Workers Unite Ireland met in Paris with 5 other European game unions to increase collaboration in a united front against industry exploitation. We stand with our friends @stjv.fr , @csvi-cgt.bsky.social, @gameworkers.co.uk, FIOM-CGIL & GDRT @social.verdi.de www.fsunion.org/latest/news/...

hey rockstar what do you say? no workers, no gta!

hey rockstar what do you say? no workers, no gta!

as part of a demonstration organized by @techworkerscoalition.org, members of unions like cwa and uaw, as well as other assorted supporters of the 34 rockstar workers fired for organizing activity, have gathered outside rockstar’s office in nyc to protest

Hallelujah!

Workers from journalism to tech and beyond are standing up to fight back against management’s drive to use ai to sloppify our work and degrade our labor. head to www.newsnotslop.org/ to support journalists and workersdecide.tech to get tools to join the fight in your workplace too. #newsnotslop

Today, hundreds of workers at Environmental Defense Fund announced the launch of EDF Together — the largest environmental union in the US. We’re asking EDF to voluntarily recognize our union so that we can begin building a better EDF, together. Learn more: edftogether.org

Journalists, tech workers and all of us need to be attuned of how ai slop threatens our industries, and we need to gear up to fight back. We helped put together workersdecide.tech as a way to help workers organize to take back control of our jobs. #newsnotslop

We will lead a day of in-person actions on Thursday as part of this important campaign: 7:30 to 9 AM ET with our Reuters Guild distributing informational flyers outside @reuters.com Next; and 1PM ET a rally with Insider Union. Be there!

RELEASE: NewsGuild journalists are sounding the alarm – media companies are undermining public trust with unethical AI in the newsroom. Today, we launch #NewsNotSlop, a national campaign kicking off a Week of Action on AI, December 1–5. newsguild.org/release-stan...

after the rally head to TWC’s happy hour nearby (Sláinte bar at 7) to keep discussing organizing and solidarity in our industry.

join science for the people for a collective discussion about what the impacts of AI are, and how we can put workers in control of our work and it's conditions – as well as how to begin organizing our coworkers to join us in this fight. bit.ly/sftp-ai-work...

NYC 🌆 Protest at Rockstar’s NY offices next Friday, Dec 5th with us! We will be there with organizers across the industry — let’s make the fight against their illegal union-busting international ✊ 🗓️ Friday, December 5th ⏰ 5PM onwards 📍 622 Broadway, New York, NY 10012

management pushing dumb ai policies and tools on you? twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back. don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!

Taking down union-busters is our favorite side quest 💅🎮

management pushing dumb ai policies and tools on you? twc and friends have launched workersdecide.tech to pool resources, stories and strategies to organize and push back. don’t let the bubble drag your job down with it!

NYC 🌆 Protest at Rockstar’s NY offices next Friday, Dec 5th with us! We will be there with organizers across the industry — let’s make the fight against their illegal union-busting international ✊ 🗓️ Friday, December 5th ⏰ 5PM onwards 📍 622 Broadway, New York, NY 10012

join science for the people for a collective discussion about what the impacts of AI are, and how we can put workers in control of our work and it's conditions – as well as how to begin organizing our coworkers to join us in this fight. bit.ly/sftp-ai-work...

This looks cool! Another @techworkerscoalition.org + @cwaunion.bsky.social and gang production www.workersdecide.tech

🚩BREAKING! From New Delhi to Montreal and beyond, thousands will take to the streets this #BlackFriday to #MakeAmazonPay for labour abuses, environmental degradation and threats to democracy. ✊Join Us! #MakeAmazonPay

It is based on 6+ years of work on the relationship btw knowledge production + organizing across the digital supply chain. We interviewed workers @turkopticon.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org Rideshare Drivers United, Amazon Worker Solidarity, + more about their uses + critiques of research

Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today! Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount

BUT! For free on 7 Nov, meet up with @techworkerscoalition.org in NYC to talk shop about ✨organizing ✨

Building worker power in the tech industry is key! At #CircuitBreakers @techworkerscoalition.org, workers, organizers, and activists in the tech industry—including some of TechEquity's staff—came together to 'learn, build community, strategize, and recognize collective power.'

📢 Register for TWC 101: @techworkerscoalition.org Onboarding & Overview. 📅 October 28, Tuesday, 5pm PST · 8pm EST 🇪🇺 October 29 1am CET (daylight saving differences) us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry. www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...

Hundreds of folks who pulled up to @techworkerscoalition.org' Circuit Breakers agree with this heavy

Our annual Circuit Breakers conference is live! 300 tech workers spanning the US, Mexico, Philippines, India and Kenya working in different layers of the global value chain gather across 40-different worker-led sessions exchanging strategies and tactics! Afterwards we will digitize sessions!

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️ As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike. WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Tech workers united will never be defeated! Alphabet Workers Union members in Seattle and New York City turned out in solidarity with @kickstarterunited.org members ON STRIKE for a fair second contract! #1u

TODAY: Members of Kickstarter United, on strike for a fair contract, rallied today in Manhattan outside the offices of venture capitalist Fred Wilson, a major investor in the company.

We are officially one month away from Circuit Breakers Conf! Repost please! 🗽 New York City, Oct. 18-19th 2025 ✊ Conference will feature workers from the wider tech labor movement 🎟️ Grab your limited tickets now: techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-breakers

Who is Really Fueling your AI? Precarization and Resistance in Data Work. September 17th 2025 11 AM EST / 17:00 CET in Berlin @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social 🔗 Register in-person: tickets.weizenbaum-institut.de/jl89e/ 📽️ Watch online www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA3w...

NEWS ALERT: Early bird tickets now available for Circuit Breakers, our annual US tech labor conference! Repost please! 🗽 New York City, Oct. 18-19th ✊ Conference will feature workers from the wider tech labor movement 🎟️ Snag your early bird tickets here: techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-breakers

NEWS ALERT: Early bird tickets now available for Circuit Breakers, our annual US tech labor conference! Repost please! 🗽 New York City, Oct. 18-19th ✊ Conference will feature workers from the wider tech labor movement 🎟️ Snag your early bird tickets here: techworkerscoalition.org/circuit-breakers

#rp25 hosts 60+ sessions on AI. Few discuss the worker involved. “Am I Not Human? Data workers behind our AI systems and social media platforms speak out” 🇰🇪Joan from @datalabelers.bsky.social 🇩🇪 Andreas TikTok Works Council Chair 🪑Chaired by Rim of @superrrnetwork.bsky.social #contentmoderation

This weekend in Berlin the @techworkersber.bsky.social participates in #StreikKonferenz with over 2,000 trade unions activists. TWC contributes with two-panel sessions on migrant self-organisation and solidarity with Palestine.

In case you missed it, here’s the recording of our TWC/D&S webinar on data centers, climate, and labor issues with speakers from @mediajustice.bsky.social, Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, Chip Workers for Responsible Mining, Enabled Emissions Campaign, Clean Virginia, and NYC DSA Tech Action

Data centers are expanding globally; destroying the climate, exploiting labor, and creating toxic conditions for those nearby In this webinar we'll unpack what they are, why they're expanding, how we can organize against them. 📆 April 18, 2025 ⏰ 3pm PDT / 6pm EDT Register at bit.ly/datacenters101

On April 5th, America’s unions are coming together with allies of labor at events across the country to send a message: #HandsOff our unions and our contracts! Find an event near you: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

📣 TWC 101 - onboarding with @techworkerscoalition.org across two separate time-slots on Tuesday, April 15th. Repost please 🙏 🌍 We host multiple time slots to make it more accessible across time zones. 🎉 Register now at bit.ly/twc101-apr2025A or bit.ly/twc101-apr2025B for your respective slot 🌞

Our next TWC Workers Circle is on Tuesday, April 22nd at 5pm PT / 8pm ET 💫 All are welcome to join — we’ll discuss together strategies on winning, what it means to build power during the rise of tech fascism, and the importance of hope and action! Register now at bit.ly/twcworkerscircle11 🎟️

Data Centers, Climate and Labor: co-hosted with @datasociety.bsky.social #SFClimateWeek Webinar Chip Workers for Responsible Mining Enabled Emissions Campaign @mediajustice.bsky.social @nycdsatech.bsky.social @cleanvirginia.org 📆 April 18, 2025 ⏰ 3pm PDT / 6pm PDT Register: bit.ly/datacenters101

Data Centers, Climate and Labor: co-hosted with @datasociety.bsky.social #SFClimateWeek Webinar Chip Workers for Responsible Mining Enabled Emissions Campaign @mediajustice.bsky.social @nycdsatech.bsky.social @cleanvirginia.org 📆 April 18, 2025 ⏰ 3pm PDT / 6pm PDT Register: bit.ly/datacenters101

The next Bay Area meetup is coming up on Wednesday, April 2nd at Teeth Bar in San Francisco from 6-8pm. Join us and meet up with tech comrades to hang out, commiserate, and get plugged in. All are welcome! 📍 Teeth Bar (2323 Mission Street, San Francisco) 📆 Wednesday, April 2nd ⏰ 6:00 - 8:00 PM