Tech Workers Coalition

@techworkersco

We are a coalition of workers in and around the tech industry, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends. Contact us at hello@techworkersco.org

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    Dec 21

    Here are the demands that Filter RAs, working at Facebook Reality Labs, sent to management.

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  2. 9 hours ago

    We took a couple days off from the internet over the holidays, so we're catching up on stories we missed. First off, metrics are all lies, and our bosses got rich by selling those lies to one another for years, with no heed to the consequences.

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  3. Retweeted
    Dec 24

    Steeped in history, we learn from and support other worker's rights movements of past and present, regardless of sector.

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  4. Dec 24

    "“When tech workers see that people who get paid way, way, way, way less than they do strike for months, it makes them realize, ‘What the fuck are we doing when we walk out for half an hour?’” says a former Google employee of the Marriott workers." 😊✊🏾

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  5. Dec 23

    We haven't seen Google's response yet, of course, but we have a strange intuition that some nebulous "error" will be blamed, and that no greater accountability will be offered. Can't imagine what history gave us that impression.

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  6. Dec 23

    [Content warning for antisemitic slurs in image] Here's a neat mental exercise: every time you see something utterly atrocious from a tech company handwaved and blamed on The Algorithm, remember that the US military (and others) desperately want to use those algorithms to kill.

    Google news is showing me something from Daily Stormer with the headline "Filthy, Disgusting Like Fiend John Podhoretz Defends Jewish..." (the rest is cut off)
    TW slur Uh, what the FUCK ?!?!?!?!
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  7. Retweeted
    Dec 23

    We stand on the shoulders of giants — this is only the continuation of a long running movement centering worker solidarity and power.

    The historic Google walkout showed how powerful tech employees really are.
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  8. Dec 23

    The Pentagon expects international workforces to automatically support increasing the lethality of the US military, after decades of watching it destabilize large regions of the world, as we watch the US government issue orders to tear gas children. 🤔🤔

    “We have stumbled unprepared into a contest over the strategic narrative,” said an internal Pentagon memo. The memo depicted a department caught flat-footed and newly at risk of alienating experts critical to the military’s artificial intelligence development plans. “We will not compete effectively against our adversaries if we do not win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the key supporters,” it warned.
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  9. Dec 21

    Chipotle workers join Uber drivers in mass filings for arbitration, and once again the company balks at getting just what it asked for. This goes to show that forced arbitration isn't about privacy or anything else other than silencing workers.

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  10. Retweeted
    Dec 21

    has released a statement on the recent firings at Eugen Systems after their employees took them to court over salaries lower than the minimum wage. This is the kind of malpractice and pettiness we must fight against in solidarity! ✊🏾🎮😡

    Eugen Systems sacks 6 workers involved in ongoing pay dispute December 21, 2018 On the 19th of December, 6 workers were fired by Eugen Systems. This represents almost a quarter of the 21 employees left at Eugen. At the beginning of 2018, Eugen Systems staff numbered around 50. Although the firings were apparently unconnected with the ongoing dispute over pay, we believe that this was an act of retaliation.
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  11. Dec 21

    We're glad to see Filter Digital take back their indefensible threat of firing these research assistants right before the holidays, but that isn't enough. Meeting these demands is the right thing to do. It's as simple as that. "When one of us succeeds, we all do."

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  12. Dec 21

    Wage increases that are more than reasonable, especially considering the value their labor provides to Facebook, a company that made $5 billion in profits last quarter. This is a drop in the bucket for Facebook, but for these workers, it could change their lives.

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  13. Dec 21

    5 days of sick leave, which helps both the workers and the company by giving workers less incentive to come in sick, and ensuring they have time to recover so they can produce good work. Facebook and Filter can surely afford 1 hour of sick leave for every 40 hours of work.

    Screenshot of demands RAs and Coordinators must use PTO when they miss work due to illness. This puts us in a position where we continue to work while sick, as we cannot afford to stay home. This negatively affects not only our health, but the health of our co-workers and research participants. We are asking for a minimum of 1 hour of sick leave for every 40 hours worked, up to 40 hours per year.
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  14. Dec 21

    A paid holiday schedule matching Facebook's, so they don't have to take PTO days when they physically cannot do their jobs due to Facebook being closed. Filter backed down once the pressure was on, but before this story came out, they were willing to fire 20 employees over this.

    Facebook closes its offices to employees for 11 holidays per year, but RAs only receive paid time off for 5 of these holidays. During these office closures, ​we effectively can’t work. ​This forces us to take unpaid days off, or use 6 out of our 10 days of PTO to cover the income we lose during these breaks. Because of this, we should be provided with paid holidays in alignment with Facebook’s paid holiday schedule.
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  15. Dec 21

    Free ORCA cards for commuting on public transit, a benefit that is already provided to both full-time Facebook employees and other contract workers such as cafeteria workers. Is this really a demand so ridiculous as to threaten termination over the holidays?

    Screenshot of the letter "...we should be provided with a free ORCA card for commuting to and from work. Travelling for work is a significant cost burden for RAs. Because of the well-documented housing crisis in our area, many of us cannot afford to live near where we work. We also cannot afford the expenses of driving to work, making us reliant on public transit as our main source of transportation."
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  16. Dec 21

    Great thread elaborating on the at Facebook/Filter, including detailing the coercion and ultimatums they tried to cover up and backpedal from once they started getting heat. These workers have won a very real victory, but their fight isn't over yet.

    The contractors appear to have won some of their demands. The ultimatum is withdrawn, they will get all FB holidays plus other wage and benefit changes. At the end of the day, this appears to be a victory for the tech industry's growing labor movement
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    Dec 21

    URGENT: Mass sackings of couriers across the country for spurious reasons – DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Hundreds affected. Action planned. RT, shame and signal boost please.

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  18. Retweeted
    Dec 21

    Uber and Lyft drivers in Connecticut are on strike today.

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  19. Retweeted
    Dec 21

    It seems strange to write an article about a massive tech company opening an office in Oakland while barely mentioning gentrification, homelessness and the ways unhoused people are treated in Oakland, and potential tax incentives. Watch this space.

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    Dec 20

    So often these "contractors" are really full-time employees that employers are purposefully miscategorizing as contractors to avoid paying benefits, divide the workforce, and save a quick buck. Oh and by "save a quick buck" we mean conduct wage theft.

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