The Coalition
American Tech Workers is a convening organization. The most durable version of any American technology workers’ movement is not a single organization with a single membership — it is a coalition of independent communities, professional associations, advocacy organizations, and labor groups, each with their own focus, their own membership, and their own leadership, that recognize each other as allies and act in coordination when it serves the workers they each represent.
ATW exists, in part, to build and curate that coalition.
What we look for
Communities and organizations are listed below when they meet a small set of criteria:
- They are independent. They are not run by ATW, do not require ATW’s permission to act, and are not financially dependent on ATW.
- They serve American technology workers. Their primary work is for, by, or in support of American technology workers — current, displaced, or aspiring.
- They operate in good faith. They do not exist to harvest member data, sell credentials, or function as a front for an interest hostile to American technical labor.
- They are publicly accountable. They have a public face, identifiable leadership, and a track record of engagement that can be evaluated by anyone considering whether to join or trust them.
A community does not need to share every position in our Declaration to be in the coalition. It needs to share the broad goal: that American technology workers are entitled to the work, the wages, the careers, and the dignity they have earned.
Currently allied communities
This list grows as ATW vets and confirms additional communities. Inclusion is by ATW’s judgment; communities are not added at their own request without that vetting.
Allied community listings will be added here as they are confirmed.
For communities and organizations seeking to join the coalition
If you operate a community, professional association, advocacy organization, labor group, employer network, or other body whose work serves American technology workers and would like to be evaluated for the coalition, the path is simple: keep doing the work in public, where it can be evaluated. ATW reaches out to communities we identify as candidates. We will not list a community without vetting; we will not list a community whose listing would put its members at risk.
For individuals
The coalition exists for organizations. Individuals do not “join the coalition” — they join one or more of the communities within it, and add their name to the Declaration on their own platforms.