🗝️ Friday May 15th, Nakba Day, show your solidarity with Palestine by wearing your Palestine gear to work. Bring your keffiyehs, watermelon pins, and laptop stickers and show colleagues that we have not forgotten about Palestine and that Palestine will be free!!
Bay Area: thanks to a great turnout at last month’s social in San Jose, we are hosting another one this week! If you’re in the South Bay and missed the last one or are just learning about it, we hope that you can join us. This is a space for tech workers to come together to commiserate, build community, and talk about how to get organized.
🗓️ Saturday, May 16
⏰ 6:30 - 8:30 pm
📍 San Pedro Square Market (87 N San Pedro St, San Jose)
What’s disgusting? Union busting! AWU members in NYC came out to Brooklyn Borough Hall last Friday to rally against retaliation with our fellow unionized tech workers @kickstarter_united ! Since workers won their strike last year, Kickstarter has fired FOUR union leaders in retaliation.
AWU calls on Kickstarter to reinstate these workers NOW! Visit kickstarterunited.org NOW to join us in sending a letter to the Kickstarter CEO.
TWC Chicago 🌀 Are you worried about layoffs? Being forced to use AI? Are you being asked to do more with less? Are you worried about increasing surveillance and control in the workplace? Does it feel like a job in tech is no longer the “good career” that it has been in the past?
You are not alone. Come hang with your fellow tech workers who want to do something about it. See you Saturday, May 16th @ Ping Tom Park from 12-2:30pm :-)
Please RSVP via our Luma: luma.com/7cx86gmx
Join us for an evening to celebrate the Congo with Bay Area activists and storytellers. Our interests include semiconductor supply chains, trade policy, Congolese diasporic communities and protest art.
There will be food, drinks and good company — come for a casual mixer!
Monday May 18 at 6:30pm
Tamarack
1501 Harrison Street Oakland
100 grassroots organisers in digital platform economy from 40-countries will meet for 3-days in Nairobi, Kenya as @gpwsp to collaborate on unified demands for the upcoming @ilo.org Platform Convention that will be ratified next month. This is second time @TechWorkersBER participates. Connecting riders, drivers, domestic workers, data workers across regions 🌍
What would you love to learn about global organizing?
We work at one of the most powerful companies on earth - Google workers' labor generates billions in profit every quarter, yet we are still fighting for basic job security and a seat at the table.
Real change comes from collective action - every time abuses of power have been stopped, it was workers and communities moving together. That's what brought our members out on the streets at May Day rallies across the country.
AWU is part of a broader movement - Tech workers are standing shoulder to shoulder with teachers, care workers, and every worker who's been told to be grateful while billionaires rewrite the rules.
They have the money. We have each other - and that has always been enough to win.
Join AWU today so we can win power back for workers!
AI is broadly unpopular with most Americans, but bosses insist on it. They force tech and creative workers to use it and surveil blue-collar workers with it.
What will it take for you to have a say on AI at work?
Check out our newest guide on how to protect your job against AI overreach in the workplace!
Link in bio or at workerorganizing.org/ai.
🌠😁 Minneapolis and St. Paul based friends - join us for the first local Tech Workers Coalition meetup at Arbeiter Brewing on Thursday! Come meet other likeminded folks in tech, share stories, commiserate, and plug into TWC and organizing efforts around the mass layoffs happening right now.
📆 Thursday, May 7, 2026
⏰ 6pm
📍Arbeiter Brewing @ 3038 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis
