Tech Workers Coalition

And so if you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here, but here's where you are.

And there is the Tech Workers Coalition, there's Tech Solidarity.

At EFF, we're unionized through the Communications Workers of America.

There are tech shops that are unionizing and tech shops that are trying to unionize.

And right now they're not spending it on organizing, and they should be.

And one of the ways we get there is by demanding that we as workers need to have consideration from our comrades who are unionized already, and that they should not treat those cash reserves as existing solely to benefit the workers who've already been organized, but to add to the pool of unionized workers.

And so go to Tech Solidarity, go to the Tech Workers Coalition, find out how to unionize your shop, start having union conversations.

Because wishing that there was a way to have a better workplace without unionizing, it's like wishing that we had cryptography that only worked when good guys used it, but that stopped working when bad guys used it to hide child sex abuse material or terrorist plots.

And, you know, I've seen more and more examples of that.

There's, you know, even there's a group called the Tech Workers Coalition.

um, that has seen a big growth, um, in the past few years.

Um, this organization has existed for, for a long time and it's kind of wax and wane, but over the past few years, as we've had these huge layoffs in the tech industry, um, I think they told me that, um, Between the time the layoffs started in 2022-2023 and the time that I checked in with them late last year, so kind of three years, they'd seen their email list go from about 4,000 to more than 7,000.