Tech Workers

Rebooting The Tech Worker Movement

September 24, 2026 J. S. Tan and Clarissa Redwine, Dissent Magazine. Organize! Big Tech, Job Security, Public pressure, Tech Workers, Worker Rights

When we speak to new workers entering tech, few seem to know about the ferocious activism that spread through the industry a little less than a decade ago. Back then, these battles seemed to be happening everywhere, grabbing headlines in major outlets, week after week, for years on end, from Google and Microsoft employees’ fight against military contracts to Amazon workers’ open letter against the online retailer’s complicity in the climate crisis. According to a recent research paper—co-authored by one of us, JS Tan—such campaigns went from just four cases in 2017 to nearly fifty in 2019, coalescing into something unmistakable: a tech worker movement.

AI’s Rise Is Being Fueled By The Sprawling US Military State

July 10, 2026 Sarah Lazare, In These Times. Organize! Big Tech, Palestine, Tech Workers, Wars and Militarism

Hossam Nasr was never under the impression Microsoft is a force for good, but says he “did genuinely believe it to be one of the lesser evil big tech companies.” So when he graduated with a computer science degree, he took a job there and moved to its Seattle campus in 2021. “I sort of felt like I had to work at a big tech company,” he recalls, “because that was the definition of what success in my field looks like.” To his horror, he discovered the cloud storage service he worked on, Azure, provided the Israeli military with artificial intelligence tools essential to the post-October 2023 onslaught on Gaza.

What It’s Like To Work At A Tech Worker Co-op

July 22, 2025 Catalyst Cooperative, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperative, Tech Workers, Technology, Worker Rights

Catalyst Cooperative is an all-remote, 8-person, tech worker cooperative based in North America. The coop was founded in 2017 with the mission to make US energy system data more accessible. Catalyst's main objectives are to curate the free, open-source Public Utilities Data Liberation project (PUDL) and help clients navigate a myriad of energy or environmental data needs. We filmed this interview to help researchers or coop-curious individuals learn more about what it's like working at a tech cooperative.

Thousands Of Samsung Workers Go On Indefinite Strike

July 11, 2024 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Samsung, South Korea, Strikes, Tech industry, Tech Workers, Worker Rights and Jobs

Thousands of workers in South Korea at Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, declared an “indefinite strike” against the company’s refusal to dialogue and listen to their demands on the last day of their three-day strike on Wednesday, July 10. In a statement, published on the website of the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU) which is spearheading the strike, the union told its members “don’t get tired” and continue the strike until further instructions are given. The NSEU has around 30,000 members and represents 24% of all workers with Samsung Electronics. According to NSEU, over 6,540 workers have been participating in the different strike actions.

Google Fired Us For Protesting Its Complicity In The War On Gaza

April 30, 2024 Mohammad Khatami, Zelda Montes, and Kate Sim, Scheer Post. Resist! Amazon, Gaza, Google, Israel, Palestine, Tech Workers

Earlier this month, the three of us, along with dozens of our co-workers, took part in a coordinated set of civil resistance actions at Google offices around the United States. Some workers occupied Google’s New York offices. Others occupied the Sunnyvale, California, office of Thomas Kurian, the CEO of Google Cloud. This protest was an escalation of the ongoing No Tech for Apartheid(NOTA) campaign, which has been demanding for years that Google and Amazon cancel Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion deal that Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services signed with the Israeli military and government in 2021.

Organizing Google’s Worldwide Worker Walkout

April 29, 2024 Dan Feidt, Unicorn Riot. Organize! Google, Tech Workers, Walk Outs, Worker Rights and Jobs

Cambridge, MA — At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on December 11, 2018 an open forum titled, “#MeToo and Workers’ Power: Building Solidarity at Google and Beyond,” covered the inner workings of the global Google walkout of 20,000 employees and contractors in 2018. Hosted by the Tech Workers Coalition and MIT’s Radius, the speakers and attendees examined the truth about how Google divides its labor force between contractors and workers. The year of 2018 saw unprecedented mobilizations against management at the biggest companies in the tech industry.

Tech Workers Deserve A Union

February 2, 2024 Peter Olney, The Stansbury Forum. Organize! Artificial Intelligence, Tech Workers, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Many of us have tried to follow the recent kerfuffle involving Sam Altman’s leadership of the company he founded, OpenAI. In mid-November 2023 he was abruptly fired, then returned to power just five days later. The business press highlighted the implications of this power struggle for the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence and the future influence of investors like Microsoft. It appears, however, that the pivotal moment in the power struggle came when 738 out of OpenAI’s estimated 770 workers said they would resign if Altman remained ousted. Even if it only resulted in putting a CEO back in power (and to a company that represents a real threat to the labor movement), the revolt by OpenAI workers was nevertheless “one of the most successful collective actions taken to date in the tech industry,” writes Ethan Marcotte, and a reminder to tech workers of the power they have at work.

Tech Layoffs Are About Punishing Workers And Driving Down Wages

February 16, 2023 Rose Lemlich, Left Voice Resist! Alphabet, Big Tech, Google, Tech Workers, Worker Rights and Jobs

In January, amid mass layoffs across the tech industry, Google laid off 6 percent of its workforce, or about 12,000 workers. In protest, dozens of tech workers crowded the sidewalk outside of Google’s Chelsea offices on February 2, sharing stories of laid-off coworkers and urging each other to join the union. The protest took place while executives at Alphabet (Google’s parent company) were on an earnings call with investors, announcing billions in profits. The workers highlighted the cruelty of how workers were told they’d lost their jobs. One anonymous worker shared that they were laid off via email while eating breakfast in the office.

New Tech Labor Movement Unites Office And Gig Workers

July 23, 2020 Tyler Sonnemaker and Allana Akhtar, Business Insider. Organize! Strikes, Tech Workers, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

The recent wave of employee activism and organizing efforts represents a widening rift between the industry's rank-and-file employees and its executives. For the first time, developers and product managers with higher pay and closer ties to management are siding with their lower-paid colleagues in warehouses, cafeterias, and contract gigs. A global pandemic and sweeping protests against systemic racism have brought workers across pay scales, job types, geographies, and companies together in an unprecedented show of solidarity. They've protested unsafe and toxic workplaces, racial and gender discrimination, and stagnating wages as tech companies rake in record profits. At the same time, workers who build the technologies shaping our society are demanding a say in how those products get built.

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