Our Community Platform Is Live

We've grown enormously in the past month, and we're excited to welcome our 28 new volunteers across our four programs and six teams. This week, we're launching our new Community Platform — a beta membership space with secure communication channels for laid-off workers, a community job board, group learning tools, and resources for workers navigating this moment.

What's on the Platform

As a tech worker cooperative in formation, we are building tools by and for the community of workers we serve. Here's what's live in our beta launch:

• Community Job Board — Browse and post job openings, with notes from members who've been through the process
• Secure Messaging Channels — Private communication outside of company Slack, for laid-off workers coordinating together
• Group Learning Tools — Organize study groups, workshops, and skill-sharing with accountability built in
• Resource Hub — A growing library of guides, templates, and know-your-rights materials
• Open Source Civic Tech Projects — A space for collaborating on tools that serve workers, not investors

Welcome, Shannon Wait

We're very excited to welcome Shannon Wait as our new Lead Organizer for the Policy and Advocacy team. As a data center worker, Shannon organized for five years with the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA. She took on Google and won — fighting for the labor rights of tech contract workers, pushing bold policy initiatives, building legislative relationships, and publishing participatory action research.

Shannon co-authored "Ghosts in the Machine" with TechEquity Collaborative, where she sits on the Policy Advisory Board. We feel extremely fortunate to have this seasoned fighter guiding our advocacy strategy and our participatory action research project on the impact of AI in the workplace.

Supporting Washington Post Tech Guild

We're coordinating to support workers at the Washington Post Tech Guild with their upcoming layoff on April 10th. They're fighting to push this date further back and win better severance and effects bargaining for their union members. Please join us in supporting their collective bargaining process.

Upcoming Skillshares

Our members are already leading hands-on technical workshops. Here's what's coming up — all free and volunteer-led:

• March 18 — Deploying Local Models: Battling AI Resume Screeners & ATS (Simon M.)
• March 25 — Careful Coding Workflows with AI Tools (Tim C.)
• April 8 — System Design Interviews with AI Orchestration (Mary F.)
• April 15 — AI Governance: Comparing Policies in Europe and the U.S. (Simantha P.)

We're also hosting Daily Standups every weekday at 8am PT / 11am ET for job seekers — quick check-ins, shared goals, and mutual support. No experience required, just the willingness to show up.