About Us

The tech industry is rife with unfair treatment of workers of all stripes and the development of products harmful to our communities. The most effective path to address these issues is for workers to leverage their collective strength to push companies in the right direction. Collective Action in Tech started as a project to document those collective actions and has evolved into a platform for workers to tell their stories, share resources, and theorize the tech workers movement together. Through experimentation and open-ended dialogue, we want to create a space for us to reflect on the tech worker movement’s past, and invent its future.

Collective Action in Tech is 501(c)(3) organization maintained by:

  • Ben Tarnoff, a tech worker, writer, and cofounder of Logic Magazine
  • Clarissa Redwine, former Kickstarter union organizer
  • Cella Sum, a former tech worker and union organizer
  • Emily Mazo, a tech worker, writer, and organizer
  • Hesham Hassan, a tech worker and organizer
  • JS Tan, former tech worker and union organizer
  • Kristen S., a tech worker and writer
  • Michelle Bao, a tech worker and organizer

The CAiT archive has served as a primary source for four academic publications (FAccT, The Oxford Handbook on AI Governance, CSCW, and ILR Review) and dozens of news articles, including stories in The Guardian, TIME, NPR, NBC News, WIRED, and the MIT Technology Review. In 2020, we were featured in the Data Is Plural newsletter. In 2021, Fast Company named CAiT as one of “15 worker groups taking on the tech world” and CAiT was invited to join Progressive International. In 2022, we were cited in the WERN Report (U.S. Workers’ Organizing Efforts and Collective Actions) produced by Prof. Thomas Kochan at MIT Sloan. In 2023, we were awarded the MIT Open Data Prize and co-organized the first annual Labor Notes Tech Organizing Conference. In 2024, we co-organized the annual Circuit Breakers conference alongside the Tech Workers Coalition (returning in 2025).

We want to hear your story, so don’t hesitate to reach out to us at: hello [at] collectiveaction [dot] tech.