TechEquity Collaborative | Tech Workers for Economic Justice

We're mobilizing the tech community to address economic inequity at its roots.

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Driving Systems Change

What We're Working On

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Announcing: The Tech, Bias, and Housing Initiative

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Separate and Unequal: How Tech’s Reliance on Disproportionately Diverse, Segregated, and Underpaid Contract Workers Exacerbates Inequality

Intro to TechEquity Webinar – November

System Reset: Event Recording and Recap

System Reset

Accessibility Design in Housing – Recording

A Broken Career Ladder: How Contract Work Hurts and Helps Worker Advancement

Contract Worker Disparity Project

Contract Working Conditions in Tech: What’s It Really Like?

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The Murky Middleman – How Contracting Agencies Profit in Tech

What Can Tech Do to be Anti-Racist? – Recording

Tech Workers, Let’s Get to Work

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Housing

We are experiencing an unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis. We enact systemic policy change in three areas: production, protection. and preservation.

Workforce & Labor

From automation to the gig economy, technology and the tech industry are changing the nature of work. We advance public and corporate policy that ensures everyone has access to good jobs.

Contract Worker Disparity Project

We are launching the Contract Worker Disparity Project to shine light on the growing problem of inequality inside of tech workplaces, specifically for contract workers.

Priority Legislation

Together with our members and advisors, we’ve decided to focus our advocacy on bills that will ensure affordable homes, family-sustaining jobs, and a true safety net available to all Californians. Check out our priority legislative agenda and take the first step by signing our petitions as a community supporter.

Fair Chance to Housing Campaign

We're working with Just Cities to prevent landlords from discriminating in rental housing applications in Alameda County and to give residents a fair change to accessing housing.

System Reset

We believe tech companies have the unique ability to create opportunities for those who have been previously shut out—workers who have a conviction history.

Why is the rent so damn high?

We hosted a panel to answer the question: why is it so expensive to build a unit of housing in the Bay Area? It’s a surprisingly complicated question, but the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC-Berkeley has been doing really great work trying to get to the bottom of it.

Prop 22: What You Need to Know

Prop 22 may have already passed, but its consequences will be felt by gig workers for years to come. Read on to learn how it will affect labor and workers' rights in California.