Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow

Online event – 18 Nov 2025

Tech unions against enshittification, with Cory Doctorow

The internet is getting worse by the day, for users and tech workers alike. It’s part of the big tech playbook to degrade user experience, exploit staff, and lock us into broken systems. Tech critic Cory Doctorow calls it enshittification.

Join us for a webinar with Cory to explore how enshittification affects tech workers and users alike – and how we fight back against Big Tech’s worst instincts.

Zoom webinar – 12-1pm, Tuesday 18 November.

We’ll also hear from UK tech workers trying to tackle enshittification in their own work and through their unions. For everyone worried about how to reclaim our digital future, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.

Hosted by the TUC, with Prospect, Unite the Union and UTAW.

Images copyright Verso Books and Julia Galdo and Cody Cloud (JUCO) jucophoto.com, Creative Commons Attribution

Unions for tech workers

There are three main unions representing tech industry workers in the TUC.

Prospect

Tech workers’ branch

A branch of Prospect Union comprised of members from startups and global firms within the tech and telecoms industries. Prospect also contains the union Bectu for entertainment tech workers.

Unite the Union

Digital and tech branch

A branch of general union Unite, with members at large technology companies such as Fujitsu, DXC, IBM and Google, as well as small companies and co-ops.

UTAW

United Tech and Allied Workers

UTAW (United Tech & Allied Workers) are a national branch of the CWU run by tech workers for tech workers, organising across the UK and NI.

Other unions

To find out which of the full range of 47 unions in the TUC family might be best for you, try the TUC unionfinder tool.

Unionfinder

When a group of workers act and speak together, their employer has to listen. That’s how unions make things better at work.

Over 5.5 million people are in a union in the UK – including thousands working in the tech industry.

Unions help workers get together, stop people being treated unfairly and get a better deal from their employers.

So why not find out which union is the right one for you, get a group of mates together in your workplace, and join a union?