Tech Workers Coalition | Events

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”

Bay Area Meetup: Oakland

2026-05-08T01:00:00Z

Location: Mad Oak in Oakland near 12th St BART

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!

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

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!

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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/

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

Bay Area Meetup: San Jose

2026-04-05T01:00:00Z

Join us at San Pedro Square Market in San Jose for a casual hang with fellow tech workers. It’s a chance to meet other tech comrades, commiserate, and get plugged into TWC Bay Area. All are welcome!

📆 Saturday, April 4, 2026
⏰ 6-8pm (come for as long or short as you like)
📍 San Pedro Square Market @ 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

Bay Area Chapter Meeting

2026-04-03T01:00:00Z

Register @ bit.ly/twc-bay-meeting

Our next chapter-wide general meeting will be on Zoom on Thursday, April 2. All new and current members are welcome, whether this is your first TWC Bay Area event or you’re active in a working group. We’ll introduce the structure of the chapter, hear updates from working groups, and talk through the results of the member skills and interest survey.

We’ll also start planning for May Day 2026! Last year we formed a contingent with partner tech worker organizations Alphabet Workers Union and Bay Area Labor 4 Palestine, and we’re planning to build on that this year. We’ll start planning for an art build and outreach to our comrades and coworkers to march together on May Day.

Security Party: Location Surveillance Edition

2026-03-31T00:00:00Z

Our location data tells a story. Who do we want to read it?

We’re starting with what’s tracking us, what we can turn off, and what trade-offs are worth making. We’ll zoom out to data brokers, real-time ad bidding, and how we can join the bigger policy fights happening right now. Free and open to everyone!

Bay Area Book Club: "Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence"

2026-03-27T01:30:00Z

All are welcome! We’ll be reading “Control-X: Communication, Control, and Exclusion” (~11 pages) by Brian Jordan Jefferson from *Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (*2023). Discussion questions will be shared in Slack in advance.

This chapter focuses on connections between exclusionary control (i.e. surveillance and communications networks) in border policing and the carceral state. It aims to cast light on the less apparent aspects of exclusionary communications and control systems for experienced organizers to review and develop appropriate counter-strategies.

📆 Thursday March 26, 2026
⏰ 6:30-8pm (come for as long or short as you like)
📍 Syzygy @ 395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco
📖 Reading: https://bit.ly/bookclub-7

Bay Area Meetup: Oakland

2026-03-20T01:00:00Z

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. All are welcome! Lovely’s is an outdoor space.

📆 Thursday, March 19, 2026
⏰ 6-8pm (come for as long or short as you like)
📍 Lovely’s @ 2344 Webster St, Oakland (by Two Pitchers)

Tech Worker Organizing Against ICE and the Surveillance Machine

2026-03-17T00:00:00Z

Under the second Trump administration, the US surveillance and deportation machine has ballooned. ICE has invaded our communities, disappearing loved ones using tracking technologies from companies like Flock, Cellebrite, Palantir, and Penlink.

Join us to hear from tech workers who are organizing against ICE and authoritarianism from three different strategic perspectives: rapid response, local government, and corporate research.

We’ll have a panel discussion for the first hour, and then 30 minute breakouts for attendees who want to learn how to get more involved in organizing.

Date: March 16, 2026

Time: 8PM ET / 5PM PT

Zoom registration link: bit.ly/tech-workers-against-ICE

Portland, OR General Meeting

2026-03-14T22:00:00Z

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 Book Club | Empire of AI

2026-03-02T02:00:00Z

Empire of AI is a thorough and riveting account of how OpenAI fast-tracked AI hype as we see it today. The “AI” industry operates under the logic of empire and no one is untouched by that scale-at-all-costs enterprise.

📆 Date: First Sunday of every month

⏰ 6:00 PM PT

🔗 Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JIZjNSxmRWC0I4jRWCKwfA

💭 Discussion: #twc-book-club

Bay Area: Social Meetup

2026-02-27T02:00:00Z

6pm - 8pm at The Sycamore in San Francisco (2140 Mission St, San Francisco)

Our next Bay Area meetup is coming up - join us at The Sycamore in San Francisco for a casual hang with fellow tech workers. We’ll be hanging out in the back, a few blocks from 16th Mission BART. It’s a chance to meet other tech comrades, commiserate, and get plugged into TWC Bay Area.

All are welcome!

We can't afford to lose each other: conflict and care in tech worker organizing

2026-02-20T17:00:00Z

Labor organizers must work to keep our movements sustainable. How do we shift conflict from a destructive to generative force in our organizing spaces? How do we properly care for each other in difficult times? In this session, we will explore these questions and seek to provide answers while promoting a culture of honesty, vulnerability, and self-awareness.

Join us for this workshop, first debuted at Circuit Breakers 2025

Zoom registration is required: bit.ly/twc-digitaled01

Portland, OR General Meeting

2026-02-14T23:00:00Z

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