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[Berlin Tech Workers Coalition @TechWorkersBER]

And that’s a wrap! First day of #TechWorkersConf was a huge success! On 14 October we have a panel on collective bargaining success and 4 parallel panels on @dwenteignen, climate change, gender pay gap, and union busting/bullying! Join us! Registration is still possible!

[AngryWorkers @WorkersAngry]

Tell your mates in Berlin: 'Every Acre, Every Factory', screening in Berlin with English subtitles - 15/10/2026, 21:00
Kino in der Brotfabrik, Caligariplatz 1, Q&A with filmmakers
@Prada_Meinhof @FAU_Berlin @weareplanc @LandoCollective @TechWorkersBER
https://t.co/zxCHrNd9Oh

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

The latest Gig Economy Project newsletter is out!

We report from Gdansk, where the ETUC annual 'Platforum' has been held just 2 months before the Platform Work Directive transposition deadline, which most governments appear intensely relaxed about missing https://t.co/wbErwKZ6nt

[Berlin Tech Workers Coalition @TechWorkersBER]

A famous VPN company offered TWC €10,000 to promote its products to our European audience.

We refused. TWC can't be bought.

But like @OpenVPN, a Betriebsrat doesn't let management sneak anything past it.

[Ariel @ArielKwiat]

At this point as a software engineer I'm basically a condom for Claude

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Nobody talks about how the quickest cure for imposter syndrome is simply sitting in a meeting with very high-level corporate executives.

[Krippy ☭🍉 @KrippyItIs]

Hallo lieber Cyberkrimineller,
haben Sie schon einmal von der SCHUFA gehört?

[Charly Wargnier ☄️ @DataChaz]

Anthropic with every industry:

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

Check Resistance and Political Organization in the Shadow of Big Tech, fireside chat of Yonatan Miller x @TechWorkersBER and Josephine Shen x Cables of Resistance from Neocypherpunk Summit.

Drawing on their shared experience collaborating with Tech Workers Coalition and Cables of Resistance, the speakers consider key questions such as how are gentrification and decentralisation connected or what learnings and momentum can we take forward from Cables of Resistance, and into the streets, workplaces and digital forums?

Watch it here at: https://t.co/ty6FFLrry1

[kinocow @kinocow]

And if you're an immigrant wanting to get Permanent Residency or a German Citizenship, forget about getting one without a permanent contract.

[Berlin Tech Workers Coalition @TechWorkersBER]

@gokulns @alexanderjaeger Firing employees is feasible easy in Germany as is — from 6 months of probation to voluntary mutual termination agreements and of course operational redundancies.

The bigger challenge why tech workers don’t move to Germany is the unwelcoming visa hurdles, finding an apartment

[Berlin Tech Workers Coalition @TechWorkersBER]

🤡 Most high-skilled tech workers would beg to differ

[Gokul ⚡️ @gokulns]

As an employee in Germany who would be affected by this, I am so happy that this is happening and that my employer can fire me at-will. This feels like the start of a flywheel.

1. I do think €180,000 is too high a number as threshold. It should be €100,000. This will allow FAANG for eg: to hire more freely in Germany [which they don't today partly because it's super hard to fire people]. This in turn will rise all boats and increase competition for talent at the 100-160k levels. It'll also help startups. [I guess they will get here - 180k is just a starting point].

2. I think this needs to be coupled with weakening the Betriebsrat (Works Council) and Collective Bargaining Agreements - they are IMO the bane of German industry. Will be a tougher sell given how entrenched they are, but hopefully to incentivize FAANG-type employers, we defang these [lol]

3. This should ideally be coupled with a merit-based immigration stance (eg: the Danish / Dutch type tax rebates etc.] so that exceptionally skilled people consider Europe a viable destination (given how awesome Blue Card is vis-a-vis the H1B nightmare)

Merz absolutely lacks charisma but dude knows how economics works, lol.

[Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco]

Circuit Breakers, the conference for tech worker organizing, by and for fellow workers, is coming back to NYC on October 17-18, and submissions are still open. Whet your appetite and get hype with the plenary keynotes from last year. https://t.co/aDadgleakX

[Tech Workers Coalition @techworkersco]

⚡️ Sunday July 12th (11am PT / 2pm ET) - If Chips Could Kill: Understanding Exploitation in the Semiconductor Industry. We’ll explore the ethics behind hardware - from Congo, to Palestine, to our own backyards

https://t.co/YnwpU7yIqn

[labournet.tv labournetTV.bsky.social @labournettv]

3 members of the @thoughtworks Works Council have been dismissed.
"It's simply just targeting Works Council members for being loud and combative."
#UnionBusting
@TechWorkersBER @techworkersco
Video from a solidarity action in front of the labour court: https://t.co/AlDyVeAWbr

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

70 organisations are coming to Neo-Cypherpunk Summit in Berlin. United in Freedom.

Solidarity in practice 🔥

Tech Solidarity Movements @TechWorkersBER, @breadcoop, @opencollect

Human Rights Advocates @HRF, @amnesty

Research with a human face https://t.co/X6VDWV7qzz, @Info_Activism, @DarkMatter_Labs, https://t.co/gKLwLpof3u, @sovright_, @BlockchainGov, @argotorg, @fsf Europe, @INCAmsterdam, @foresightinst, @otherinternet__, @metagov_project

Hacktivism @DyneOrg, @dod_berlin, @CommunityPriv, @BordelWTF, @Poetic_Tech

Freedom Stack

Protocols & networks @Logos_network, @DarkFiSquad, @ethereum, @nym, @torproject
Operational Systems: @GrapheneOS
Browsers: @torproject, @brave, Freedom Browser https://t.co/sThgCxFT5b
Messegers: Air by https://t.co/VoZPd2CVuo, @BitchatMe_ by @callebtc
Wallets: Kohaku by @ethereumfndn
VPNs: @snowstormnet, @nym
Storages: @ethswarm, @IPFS
Socials: https://t.co/Qw95nc3ars, @masknetwork
Docs @fileverse
Crypto: @Zcash
Portfolio @rotkiapp
Collaboration @radicle

Policymakers @EuEthInstitute
R&D: @argotorg, open hardware by https://t.co/wqkW35lySO
Genomics: @dark_dot_bio

Together https://t.co/8BeXwwEctF

[Berlin Tech Workers Coalition @TechWorkersBER]

*hear. We refuse to pay @X for the edit feature so excuse our typos 🙈

[Berlin Tech Workers Coalition @TechWorkersBER]

Grab your free ticket and here from @TechWorkersBER among other digital rights groups ✊

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

We have a dream that multidisciplinary people from different fields will come together via the Neo-Cypherpunk Summit in Berlin 🇩🇪

1 day of incredible 70 thinkers from @torproject to @ethereumfndn 📢

1000 individuals curious about anti-Big Tech, democracy, open-source software, privacy, and freedom ✊

Diverse subjects from encrypted messengers to politics of Gen AI, across solidarity movements & decentralised socials.

We have a dream, and we are making it real: https://t.co/8BeXwwEctF

[labournet.tv labournetTV.bsky.social @labournettv]

#UnionBusting at Thoughtworks in #Berlin
3 member of the #Thoughtworks Works Council have been dismissed:
"It's simply just targeting Works Council members for being loud & combative."
@techworkersco @TechWorkersBER

https://t.co/AlDyVeAWbr

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

What I’m hearing: Instagram’s Trust and Safery org absolutely gutted the last few weeks. ~60% of the org gone - between layoffs and forced reassignments to data labelling.

All while “AI maxxing” pushed a bunch of bugs to prod. And hence why today’s massive Insta account takeover happening.

[The Gig Economy Project @project_gig]

The Gig Economy Project newsletter is out!

A new documentary on food delivery in Germany exposes what we all know: the industry is a mafia-style operation, where criminality is endemic & migrants are exploited because they have nowhere else to turn.
https://t.co/eVt6lX7ylc