As tech workers, how do we make changes in our workplaces while protecting ourselves legally and personally? We’ll be coming together this month to hear from Peter Zschiesche, founder of the Employee Rights Center, who has offered to host a dialogue about our rights as workers.



The questions are up to us, but Peter is prepared to present on the following topics:



• Our rights as workers, broken down by worker type (whether contract-based, full-time, through worker visas, or undocumented)

• Trends that uniquely affect workers in San Diego

• Concrete cases of how workers have improved their working conditions, together and across San Diego

• Analysis of workplace power dynamics



Location:

SEIU Offices

4001 El Cajon Blvd, Suite 211, San Diego, CA 92105



Agenda:

7:00pm—Mix + Settle

7:15pm—Discussion + Q&A (with break)

9:00pm—Steering Committee (all are welcome)



Tech Workers Coalition operates with the belief that all gathered are members of the organization. We keep our steering meetings right after our monthly meetings, so anyone who wants can jump right into planning the next one. We hope to see you there!

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About ERC:

Founded in 1999, the Employee Rights Center has as its mission to offer all San Diego-area workers, especially disadvantaged workers without union representation, education and advocacy regarding their workplace issues. It is the only non-profit organization in the area that offers legal services regarding employment and labor law. During 2009 alone, the Center won over $1.5 million in benefits and $250,000 in unpaid wage claims for its clients and has educated thousands of workers about their rights and benefits.



About the Tech Workers Coalition:

Guided by a vision for an inclusive & equitable tech industry, Tech Workers Coalition (TWC) organizes to build worker power through rank & file self-organization and education.



ALL TECH WORKERS are welcome, whether you're working security at General Atomics, writing code for Qualcomm, cleaning floors at Amazon, or driving for Lyft on the weekends. If your labor produces value for a company that deals in knowledge or technology, you are a part of our movement to build worker power in the tech industry.



Code of Conduct:

All attendees will be held to our values and code of conduct, available for reading here:

https://techworkerscoalition.org/community-guide/



We believe disagreement and differences of opinion are a natural part of community and are important to work through when building community, strategizing, and learning from one another, but we do not tolerate harassment in any form. Participants who engage in harassment or abuse may be removed from the group at the discretion of the organizers.



Harassment includes, but is not limited to:



• Unwelcome comments regarding a person’s lifestyle choices and practices

• Deliberate intimidation or antagonism

• Exclusionary jokes or comments

• Unwelcome sexual attention or physical contact

• Sustained disruption of meetings, events, or online discussion

• Continued one-on-one communication after requests to cease

• Comments that reinforce social structures of domination (related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion)

• Threats of violence



Abuse includes, but is not limited to trolling, misdirection, and disrespectful use of resources and access.



If you have been harassed or have witnessed abuse, please bring this to the attention of the group organizers (in meetings) or to members of the steering committee.



Thank you!