About

Collective Action in Tech (CAIT) is an organizing and research project aimed at building a counter-power against an evermore powerful tech and AI industry. We believe the most effective path to change is workers leveraging their collective strength to push companies in the right direction.

In the early days of the tech worker movement, CAIT began as a project to document collective actions in the tech industry. Since then, it has evolved into a community of workers that tell their stories, share resources, and theorize the tech worker movement together.

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 (the conference has since been renamed Circuit Breakers).

CAIT is maintained by Ben Tarnoff, Clarissa Redwine, Cella Sum, Emily Mazo, JS Tan, Kristen Sheets, and Michelle Bao.

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