Tech Workers Coalition | Events

Circuit Breakers - Tech Labor Conference

2026-10-17T13:00:00Z

Tech Workers Coalition and Collective Action in Tech are excited to announce the date for Circuit Breakers, our national tech labor conference! This year will be in NYC from Oct. 17-18th.
More info on Circuit Breakers website.

Bay Area Summer All-Chapter Meeting

2026-07-17T01:30:00Z

This will be a virtual meeting on Zoom. Register here!

Join TWC Bay Area for our summer all chapter meeting. Meet fellow members, discuss what’s going on in the chapter and learn how you can get more involved. Important: New member orientation at 6:00pm, full meeting at 6:30pm.

📆 Thursday, July 16, 2026
⏰ 6:30-7:30pm(ish) - New member orientation at 6pm
💻 Zoom @ https://twcl.ink/bay-area-mtg-summer-26

Portland OR, General Meeting - July 2026

2026-07-11T22:00:00Z

Every second Saturday of the month at 3pm PST, join us for our monthly meeting to connect with fellow tech workers & organizers in the Portland metro area.

There is an optional reading group for 1 hour before the social, starting at 2pm PST. Check #Local-Portland on the TWC Slack for the current book.

Location: Past Lives Makerspace, 2808 SE 9th Ave

Independence from Surveillance Tech & Cookout with TWC!

2026-07-04T20:00:00Z

Join Tech Workers Coalition Bay Area and friends for a cookout and opportunities to become more independent from Surveillance Tech.

Located on the north side of Lake Merritt, Oakland near the Boat House (GMaps). More details to be announced.

TWC South Bay Organizing Meeting

2026-06-27T20:00:00Z

Organizing Meeting for South Bay tech workers interested in organizing and building collective power. Come join and get involved with the growing South Bay chapter.

📆 Saturday, June 27, 2026
⏰ 1-2:30pm
📍 San Jose Peace & Justice Center (48 S 7th St #101, San Jose)

Bay Area Meetup: Dolores Park SF

2026-06-20T18:00:00Z

Location: Dolores Park in SF (meet near the Miguel Hidalgo Statue)

Monthly meetup for tech workers interested in organizing and building collective power. Join us for casual conversation, good food and hangs with like minded workers. We will do some brief TWC 101 and working group introductions for new folks. All are welcome!

Feel free to bring a snack, drink or game to share, or just show up as you are!

📆 Saturday, June 20, 2026
⏰ ~11-1pm (come for as long or short as you like)
📍 Dolores Park, San Francisco (meet near the Miguel Hidalgo Statue)

A Value Critique of AI & Tech Worker Opposition

2026-06-19T00:00:00Z

GenAI technologies are being promoted as the door to a new era of economic dynamism. However, the opposite is more likely. While LLM-based tools haven’t measured up to corporate promises of productivity growth, they are being used to justify mass layoffs and increase worker exploitation. Further, the gargantuan investment in AI infrastructure is prompting nationwide opposition as it poses the threat of environmental degradation and economic crisis. Control over the deployment of AI is becoming a key issue for society at large, and tech workers could have a defining say in it.

Come discuss how Marx might have tackled the encroachment of AI and how unionists have responded to it in their workplaces. We’ll have a presentation and a panel discussion including representatives from the Times Tech Guild and Kickstarter United followed by a Q&A session.

DMV Meetup in Washington DC

2026-06-16T22:00:00Z

What better way to spend a Tuesday evening than game night with your favorite group of tech workers! Join us on Tuesday June 16th at 6 pm, for some board games, comics and conversations!

RSVP

Portland, OR General Meeting - June 2026

2026-06-13T22:00:00Z

Every second Saturday of the month at 3pm PST, join us for our monthly meeting to connect with fellow tech workers & organizers in the Portland metro area.

There is an optional reading group for 1 hour before the social, starting at 2pm PST. Check #Local-Portland on the TWC Slack for the current book.

Location: Past Lives Makerspace, 2808 SE 9th Ave

TWC South Bay social

2026-05-17T01:30:00Z

TWC Bay Area is hosting a social in the South Bay in San Jose! Come and meet other tech workers who are interested in organizing and building community.

🗓️ Saturday, May 16
⏰ 6:30-8:30 PM
📍 San Pedro Square Market

Bay Area Book Club

2026-05-15T01:30:00Z

This month’s reading is White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun. This reading examines the tools of white supremacy that run our lives, relationships, workplaces, and organizations. We’ll look at how these tools coincide with the tools of capitalism and reflect on what it actually takes to unlearn them and live the antidotes instead.

📆 Thursday May 14, 2026
⏰ 6:30-8pm (come for as long or short as you like)
📍 Syzygy @ 395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco
📖 Reading: “White Supremacy Culture”

Portland, OR General Meeting - May 2026

2026-05-09T22:00:00Z

Every second Saturday of the month at 3pm PST, join us for our monthly meeting to connect with fellow tech workers & organizers in the Portland metro area.

There is an optional reading group for 1 hour before the social, starting at 2pm PST. Check #Local-Portland on the TWC Slack for the current book.

Location: Past Lives Makerspace, 2808 SE 9th Ave

Bay Area Meetup: Oakland

2026-05-08T01:00:00Z

Location: Mad Oak in Oakland near 12th St BART - on the roof deck

📆 Thursday, May 7, 2026
⏰ 6-8pm (come for as long or short as you like)
📍 Mad Oak Bar N Yard, 135 12th Street, Oakland (on the roof deck)

TWC @ San Francisco May Day 2026

2026-05-01T21:00:00Z

Meet 2pm @ Asian Art Museum steps (200 Larkin St) to join the SF May Day rally and march - “Workers’ Needs over Billionaire Greed”.

TWC 101: Tech Workers Coalition Onboarding & Overview

2026-04-28T16:00:00Z

Welcome to Tech Workers Coalition 101 call! In this call you will learn more about the history of TWC, as well as meaningful ways you can plug in. If you have ideas of your own, we would love to hear them and make them happen!

Session A

Session B

AI Workers Inquiry (SF)

2026-04-23T01:30:00Z

RSVP HERE

We will be meeting Wednesday 4/22 at 6:30pm at Syzygy on 395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco (near 16th St Bart). The event will be immediately followed by our monthly TWC social!

“A workers’ inquiry is a tool for workers to produce knowledge about their own work - and use this knowledge as a basis for organizing for something better.”

This facilitated discussion is for workers in the tech industry to reflect on the implementation of AI tools in their workplaces. Come prepared to talk about your day-to-day work experiences, imagine what it would look like if you and your coworkers had decision-making power, and listen to others with an open mind. At the end, we’ll share concrete steps and resources for workers interested in organizing their workplaces to demand agency and build collective power.

To maintain the integrity of the discussion and the safety of employees, we discourage people in managerial positions (i.e. with hiring or firing power) from attending this particular workshop.

Facilitators: navi (they/she) is a healer, organizer, and world-builder. They’re a barista at a worker-owned coffee co-op, a street medic, and a member of TWC - Bay Area. Prior to serving people coffee, navi spent 10 years building and facilitating programming for Black and Latinx CS students and tech workers.

Aiya (she/her) is a writer and former tech worker who now works in education. She’s a member of the arts nonprofit Syzygy and an organizer with TWC Bay Area.

Transnational Organizing: Pitfalls and Opportunities

2026-04-22T17:00:00Z

Tech companies are global and multinational entities, and our organizing as workers must also be international in scope. Such organizing requires knowledge of different legal regimes and union structures, and creative thought about bridging them. This presentation will discuss efforts such as European Works Councils, Global Union Federations, and grassroots transnational initiatives like Amazon Workers International, looking at how such groups foster connections and challenges to be overcome.

Sign up for the zoom: https://bit.ly/twc-edu-apr-2026

Bay Area Book Club in Oakland

2026-04-17T01:30:00Z

All are welcome! You can RSVP and find the reading here.

In the spirit of May Day we will be reading a 15-page excerpt from Notes Toward a Digital Workers Inquiry (2025) that focuses on the origins of Tech Workers Coalition in the Bay Area and how it ties into the greater movement.

Reading: “Tech Workers Coalition Bay Area”, a chapter from Notes Toward a Digital Workers Inquiry (2025) ~15 pages

Learn Basic Privacy & Digital Security Practices

2026-04-15T22:30:00Z

FREE Public Library Workshop on how to minimize your digital trail using the Activist Checklist

https://activistchecklist.org/en/checklists/

April 2026 Portland, OR General Meeting

2026-04-11T22:00:00Z

Every second Saturday of the month at 3pm PST, join us for our monthly meeting to connect with fellow tech workers & organizers in the Portland metro area.

There is an optional reading group for 1 hour before the social, starting at 2pm PST. Check #Local-Portland on the TWC Slack for the current book.

Location: Past Lives Makerspace, 2808 SE 9th Ave