This project attempts to document all collective action from workers in the tech industry. Contribute to our archive.

Currently, there are 542 collective actions documented.

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Monday, October 24, 2022
Twitter employees have circulated an open letter criticizing Elon Musk's plans for layoffs at the company.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
About 150 Apple employees held an hour-long strike in Melbourne, Australia to protest pay and working conditions.
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Thursday, September 1, 2022
Workers at Google and Amazon partnered with community groups and the Alphabet Workers Union to protest a $1.3 billion contract with the Israeli government, for cloud computing services, known as Project Nimbus. Google workers planned a day of action in early September, with protests in three cities, as part of a new "No Tech for Apartheid" campaign and the group Google & Amazon Workers Against Project Nimbus.
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Thursday, August 11, 2022
Amazon warehouse workers in Bristol and Doncaster (UK) staged a sit-in to protest the companies latest pay raise offer (35 pence per hour).
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Thursday, June 9, 2022
Workers at Salesforce wrote an open letter to urge upper management to stop working with the National Rifle Association. The letter comes after the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting.
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Monday, June 6, 2022
Nine members of Axon's AI ethics board resigned after the company said it would develop Taser-armed drones to sell to schools.
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Friday, June 3, 2022
Kickstarted United win first contract.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
Amazon workers at a New Jersey facility have submitted enough cards to hold a vote on unionizing. They seek to be affiliated with Local 713 International Brotherhood of the Trade Union.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Over 60 Amazon employees walked out in three different locations calling for a $3 hourly pay raise and the return of 20-minute breaks.
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Friday, February 18, 2022
Over 400 Salesforce employees signed onto an open letter critiquing the company's decision to launch NFT products citing their harmful environmental impact.
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Workers at Amazon’s Staten Island facility LDJ5 are seeking to be represented by the Amazon Labor union, and so they have filed a petition to the NLRB for a union election.
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Thursday, December 23, 2021
[motion to delete] Amazon has reached a settlement with the NLRB that would allow its workers to organize more freely without retaliation. Amazon will also email its employees to notify them of their organizing rights.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Staten Island Amazon workers staged a lunchtime walkout to urge Amazon to recognize their union. Their demands include better wages, safer working conditions, longer breaks, and better benefits.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Staten Island Amazon workers of the Amazon Labor Union refiled a union petition to the NLRB and are focusing on unionizing the JFK8 warehouse.
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Thursday, December 2, 2021
ActBlue has voluntarily recognized the Campaign Workers Guild as union representatives for ActBlue’s workers, and there are plans to create a collective bargaining agreement.
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Monday, September 20, 2021
Represented by CWA, workers at Blue State have formed a union in order to better advocate for changes and be a part of the decision-making process. This union was voluntarily recognized, and a collective bargaining contract was approved that improved job security, pay, and benefits.
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Sunday, August 8, 2021
Over the summer of 2021, a female employee at Alibaba was sexually assaulted by her supervisor after a business meeting where she was expected to drink. The incident became known as the Alibaba incident, or 807--August 7th--which was the date when the victim posted an essay that detailed the night she was sexually assaulted. In her post, she also talked about how, after the incident, she demanded that the perpetrator be fired from Alibaba, but her superiors at the company protected him. After the essay was published, over 6000 employees joined a discussion group to support the victim. On August 8th, they posted a set of recommendations to the company. The post was titled "Aliren for Aliren" ("ren" means "people", so this can be read "Ali-people for Ali-people"). The post critiqued the lack of protection of women employee's rights and the incompetency of upper management for not being able to help the victim. The recommendations included giving the victim a paid vacation to emotionally and physically recover from the incident, compensating the victim for her injuries, providing the victim and her family with the necessary counseling/therapy, making the investigation process transparent, providing better training and support to combat sexual harassment and discrimination at the workplace, and reforming HR to better serve the needs of employees (and not just management).
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021
Spotify and two unions, the Ringer Union and the Gimlet Union, agreed on a 3-year union contract, the first in the tech industry. The contract sets salary minimums, annual salary increases, terms for severance pay, and diversity hiring guarantees but does not clarify terms around intellectual property.
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Monday, March 29, 2021
German Amazon workers went on strike in six centers across the country to put pressure on the company to sign a collective agreement with the union in Germany. Ver.di, the union, has also criticized the company for unsafe working conditions under covid.
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Monday, December 7, 2020
The tech firm Civis Analysis, which came out of Obama's 2012 campaign and is backed by Eric Schmidt, has been hit with an unfair labor practice charge for illegally firing workers in retaliation for organizing.
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Thursday, December 3, 2020
After Dr. Timnit Gebru was fired from Google, Googlers wrote an open letter demanding accountability from Google. 2695 Googlers and 4302 academic, industry, and civil society supporters signed on to the letter.
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Thursday, October 22, 2020
Amazon workers, organized by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, are calling for a 15-minute work stoppage at warehouses across the country on Halloween in a push for paid time-off for voting on Election Day.
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Saturday, August 1, 2020
Amazon workers and supporters blocked the entrance of a San Leandro warehouse for several hours in a call for improved coronavirus safety measures.
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Friday, June 26, 2020
Approximately 300 Uber Black drivers in the Toronto area voted to unionize with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW).
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Saturday, May 23, 2020
Deliveroo workers went on strike for multiple days in Hong Kong over the company's new payment structure.
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Friday, April 17, 2020
Over the past few days, food delivery workers have carried out strikes in several countries demanding safe working conditions in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and an increase in delivery rates to ensure the workers a livable income. The countries include Brazil, Spain, Argentina, and Ecuador.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2020
The Berlin office of Babbel, the language learning platform elected a Works Council with consultation and guidance of IG Metall.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Kickstarter workers have sent a letter to management asking them to voluntarily recognize their union. If management refuses to recognize the union, workers have the option to go to the NLRB to authorize a union election.
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Monday, September 23, 2019
Google employees created an internal document describing cases of discrimination and retaliation by the company. 45 cases were reported.
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Sunday, June 30, 2019
Google workers, under the name “Ban Google From Pride,” protest their employer at Pride Parade amid controversy in the LGBTQ community over the company's harassment policies on YouTube videos.
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Monday, April 22, 2019
Microsoft and GitHub workers have published an open letter of solidarity with the 996 movement on GitHub at https://github.com/MSWorkers/support.996.ICU, and have called on Microsoft to resist all pressure from the Chinese government to block or censor the 996 repo.
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Wednesday, April 10, 2019
The company's corporate employees signed their names to a letter published on Wednesday that urged Jeff Bezos to create a comprehensive climate-change plan for the company.
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Thursday, November 1, 2018
Google employees and contractors walked out of the companies's offices around the world, one week after the New York Times reported that Google had protected three executives accused of sexual misconduct.
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Workers from Amazon's New Jersey warehouses protested outside of an Amazon Books store in Manhattan calling for better compensation, benefits, and working conditions.
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Saturday, February 4, 2017
A 'handful' of Facebook employees have vowed not to fly for 90 days following Pres. Trump's immigration ban. The company has said it is not affiliated with this protest.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Google employees around the world walked off the job to protest Pres. Trump's immigration ban. Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai spoke at the walk-out at the Mountain View headquarters.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017
50 people in the tech community came out in the pouring rain to demand the data mining startup take a firm stand against the makings of a Muslim registry.
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Saturday, December 3, 2016
Uber drivers in 20 cities join the Fight for $15 movement, boycotting the app for one day to protest wages.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Intel cafeteria workers voted to unionize joining forces with Unite Here Local 19.
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Monday, July 20, 2015
Google employees have started an internal spreadsheet to share data on salary and bonuses. Employees have reportedly used the spreadsheet to advocate for greater compensation.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Outside of Taiwan's Computex trade show, labor groups protested poor working conditions and inadequate pay for both white-collar and blue-collar workers
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
LG workers in Nanjing went on strike to protest the low pay they receive relative to Korean LG employees at the same plant.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Roughly a thousand foreign tech workers protested US H1B visa caps in Washington DC. They urged Congress to increase the number of visas supplied annually.
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Saturday, July 14, 2007
Approximately a thousand foreign tech workers protested US H1B visa caps on the streets of San Jose. A shortage of visas has created difficult conditions for workers.
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Tuesday, September 16, 1986
Fourteen employees at AT&T sign a letter warning the U.S. military of over 10,000 possible errors in the Star Wars system.
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