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πͺ© Next week is our 5 year anniversary so @TechWorkersBER logo got refreshed π
π Upcoming events
23 June, 13:00 β All Union Soul Picnic/Potluck @ The Great Makeshift Cricket Field (west side of Tempelhofer Feld)
27 June, 19:30 β General Meeting #42, (contact @haldente to submit topics) @ Warschauer Str. 23
π Celebrations
On 6 June the @dh_worker_heroes won 15/23 seats with a super 63% of employee votes in the first works council election of Delivery Hero SE in Germany! This means over 3,000 tech workers gain new co-determination rights π₯
| 2 | β€οΈβπ₯ BREAKING NEWS: @dh_worker_heroes won 15/23 seats in the first works council election at Delivery Hero SE with 63% of the vote! An outright majority! The @TechWorkersBER movement got a whole lot bigger βπΌ | 1 020 |
| 3 | π What are your ways of tracking our events? β
Check all answers that apply!
π We hosted 120+ events and can always improve! | 653 |
| 4 |  Today Delivery Hero SE (largest platform tech company in Germany) management barred one of our members from speaking with DH workers about the role and power of works councils at their Berlin HQ.
List #3 @dh_worker_heroes has shown it will not back in the face of retaliation from management.
The decision by management to block a widely shared event only one hour before it was scheduled, was a choice.
Weβve been enthusiastically supporting the diverse crew behind @dh_worker_heroes for the past 6 months and strongly encourage all employees to vote for List #3 on Election Day, June 4β6 2024! Call your friends and coworkers at DH! Every employeeβs voice matters β€οΈ | 10 |
| 5 | Lemme know if I should rephrase anything | 13 |
| 6 | Today Delivery Hero SE (largest platform tech company in Germany) management barred one of our members from speaking with DH workers about the role and power of works councils at their Berlin HQ.
List #3 @dh_worker_heroes has shown it will not back in the face of retaliation from management.
The decision by management to block a widely shared event only one hour before it was scheduled, was a choice.
Weβve been enthusiastically supporting the diverse crew behind @dh_worker_heroes for the past 6 months and strongly encourage all employees to vote for List #3 on Election Day, June 4β6 2024! Call your friends and coworkers at DH! Every employeeβs voice matters β€οΈ | 894 |
| 7 |  π May events
π§ββοΈ 23 May, 19:30, General Meeting β Warschauer Str. 23
π₯ 24 May 18:00, ver.di Monthly Meeting (registration needed) β Paula-Thiede-Ufer 10
π29 May, 19:30 Reading Group: Pierburg Migrant Women Strikes 1973 β Warschauer Str. 23
π€― Telegram groups
Itβs great you subscribe to @TechWorkersBER, but itβs even nicer to interact with likeminded colleagues.
π€ Our TWC internal group chat
β€οΈβπ₯Verdi migrant group chat
πΊIT Metall group chat
π Trade unionists for Palestine | 938 |
| 8 |  We distributed over 1,000 flyers at the AWS Summit today! This was also the first Berlin Nakba protest of the day! π
We are protesting the #AWSSummit to demand that #Amazon drop Project Nimbus, a 1.2 billion dollar contract with the Israeli government and military.
We are workers in the tech industry who are outraged that Amazon and Google are providing the digital infrastructure for Israeli apartheid. With Project Nimbus, Amazon and Google have made it easier for the Israeli government to surveil Palestinians, force them off their land, and kill them.
Over 35,000 Gazans have already been killed in this AI-assisted genocide and Amazon is profiting.
We will not stop organizing until Amazon stops profiting from genocide! We demand #NoTechforApartheid!
π° Press release
πΈ Instagram | 1 138 |
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| 10 | We distributed over 1,000 flyers at the AWS Summit today! This was also the first Berlin Nakba protest of the day! π
We are protesting the #AWSSummit to demand that #Amazon drop Project Nimbus, a 1.2 billion dollar contract with the Israeli government and military.
We are workers in the tech industry who are outraged that Amazon and Google are providing the digital infrastructure for Israeli apartheid. With Project Nimbus, Amazon and Google have made it easier for the Israeli government to surveil Palestinians, force them off their land, and kill them.
Over 35,000 Gazans have already been killed in this AI-assisted genocide and Amazon is profiting.
We will not stop organizing until Amazon stops profiting from genocide! We demand #NoTechforApartheid!
π° Press release
πΈ Instagram | 1 |
| 11 |  π Upcoming events
π₯ 15 May, 8:30am Picket Berlin AWS Summit β Station Berlin
π§ββοΈ 23 May, 19:30, General Meeting (with agenda items) β Warschauer Str. 23
π29 May, 19:30 Reading Group: Pierburg Migrant Women Strikes 1973 β Warschauer Str. 23
π Weekly Organizing 4 Power training series for those registered (read more here) on 14 May, 21 May, 28 May (hybrid in-person/online), 4 June, and 7 June π€ | 819 |
| 12 |  +1We're honored and delighted that Jane McAlevey is here to kick off the first session of #Organizing4Power training series, attended by 35 of our members this year, together with 7,000 members spread across 60 countries π
A month ago, Jane broke some difficult personal news which makes her presence all the more extraordinary! Truly wonderful to share this together π₯
Second pic is from 2019, during first O4P with @TechWorkersBER, ver.di hospital workers movement and other Berlin groups. Our movement growth is indebted to Jane and all other wonderful organizers of O4P β€οΈβπ₯ | 673 |
| 13 |  +2Happy May Day! | 985 |
| 14 |  On 1 May β Find @TechWorkersBER here::
π£ DEMO: 10:00 AM we join the Class Struggle bloc of the Trade union demo at corner of Karl Marx Allee / Pariser Kommune
π» Physical-booth stand: Mariennenplatz from 12:00-18:00
π₯€π Physical-booth stand: Rotes Rathaus from 13:00-18:00 | 820 |
| 15 | Palestine solidarity
π Globally Tech Workers Coalition has been speaking out and organizing public workshops. Last week over 50 Google employees have been fired for demanding Google drop its military contract Project Nimbus.
π€ Earlier this year @TechWorkersBER polled our members about whether to address Palestine solidarity publicly or not in late 2023. The majority sympathized with the cause, but cautiously said we are in position to comment and risked our political currency and particular context in Germany.
In mid-October 2023, we brought together 120 migrant tech workers from 50 different workplaces to network on other issues. We received reports and personal accounts already by Jewish and Muslim attendees experiencing racism in their workplaces and streets, but we didn't host any forum on the topic.
π A month later, in November 2023, a dozen Jewish members (mostly from different tech companies in this network) published an internal letter to the different trade union bodies, expressing our disappointment in a one-sided statement. Read it for yourself, the only thing that has significantly changed are the numbers.
π£ Fast forward to April 2024, six-months later... 35,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis have been killed; in Gaza, 290,000 homes have been destroyed by the Israeli government using AI technologies leveraged by Amazon, Google and military weaponry built and transported by German workers (30% of Israel's military imports come from Germany, second only to the United States).
π This is already concerning as is, but the erosion of political speech and freedom of assemblies within Germany makes this a worker issue domestically that we cannot ignore. Academics have been dis-invited, journalists have been censured, students ex-matriculated, the list continues.
β€οΈβπ₯ As migrants and tech workers, too many of us have personal stakes to ignore this topic. This conversation cannot be led by tech workers only, but together with healthcare workers, logistics workers and all other workers alarmed by the situation, I strongly encourage you join the new initiative that is launching this May-day called Trade unionists 4 Gaza / Gewerkschafter*innen 4 Gaza: Sign up here
π£ March with us on 1 May 10:00 AM at the Class Struggle bloc at corner of Karl Marx Allee / Pariser Kommune in Berlin.
We will march on May-day and we do the laborious work of hosting internal education and forums about what the role of trade unions should be in the domestic sphere and also in international policy. | 900 |
| 16 |  π Upcoming events
π 11 April, 19:30 CET Labour Struggles in Digital Capitalism π
π₯ 26 April, 17:00 ver.di Monthly Members Meeting
π¦Ί 1 May International Workers Day β TBA
π€ 7 May, 18:00 (last chance to enrol) Organizing 4 Power 2024 Training Series
π° News
75 years ago Bundestag passed the Collective Agreements Act (Tarifvertragsgesetz) but as you can see above graph, 70% of IT workers have no collective agreement protection.
@TechWorkersBER together with union members of ver.di and IG Metall can reverse this erosion of labour rights and also address challenges we face as migrant, women and younger workers! | 695 |
| 17 | The Collective Agreements Act was passed 75 years ago by German parliament. It forms the basis for industrial disputes between management and pro-union workplaces.
What collective agreement benefits would help you and your coworkers? | 747 |
| 18 | π₯How to break up Amazonπ₯
π§βπ«Berlin vs. Amazon: Info night (english)π¨βπ«
πWednesday, 27.03.24 at 7 pm at Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6π
π¨In a new legal opinion, the NGO LobbyControl calls for the Amazon group to be broken up - the revised German competition law makes it possible.
πΏFor the power of Amazon is decidedly too great. With its immense lobbying and market power, the tech company is undermining our democracy and has become practically impossible to regulate.
πͺWhat can we do to force Amazon back? That's what Max Bank, researcher and campaigner at LobbyControl, will discuss with us. | 578 |
| 19 | Today marks Equal Pay! day where women's pay finally caught up with men's pay in 2023 π
Check out some action-plans from our workshop we hosted in October
π Upcoming events
On Friday is International Women's Day, a state holiday that feminist and workers fought for! Join us in the streets!
π₯ 8 March, 11:30 International Women's Day demonstration @ Oranienplatz
π€ 15 March, 19:00 All Unions: Social Stammtisch @ Syndikat bar
π€ 22 March, 18:00 Union members campaign strategy (registration required) @ ver.di
π 7 May, 18:00 (6x weekly) Online Organizing 4 Power 2024 Training Series (registration required)
π₯ Workplace updates
@dh_workers_heroes (Delivery Hero SE) formed an Electoral Board (Wahlvorstand) on 19 February 2024 bringing 3,500 tech workers in Germany closer to collective labor rights!
Kleinanzeigen.de GmbH formed an Electoral Board on 5 March 2024.
Over 22-24 February weekend, migrants workers across Germany gathered in a ver.di union seminar retreat to increase migrant voices in union | 741 |
| 20 | π₯β€οΈ BREAKING NEWS: @dh_worker_heroes are forming a Works Council! If you are a worker at Delivery Hero mark your calendars for 19 February at 10:00 and it is in person at Estrel Congress Center.
At this meeting, the Electoral Board will be elected by employees in the room. Learn more here: https://www.workerheroes.com/ | 792 |
