United Tech and Allied Workers (UTAW) are a national branch of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) formed in 2020. We are the UK’s only union specifically for all workers in the tech industry, and we're proud to represent more tech workers than anyone else.
The CWU campaigns nationally for workers in tech, telecoms, post and communications - offering legal support amongst other benefits, and providing a collective political voice for 180,000 workers.
If you develop or deploy technology, regardless of your employer’s industry. If your workplace is owned by a tech company, or if your labour is a necessary part of a tech companies' operation. If you are studying to work in tech or you educate others in technology. We encourage you to join us.
From developers and project managers to designers, couriers, and warehouse assistants, UTAW will fight for your interests. Together we are stronger and as a unionised collective we act to improve the conditions of all our members. Joining the union is the first step towards working in a better, fairer and safer way.
UTAW represents your interests in the workplace and protects you and other workers from overwork, underpay, poor working conditions, bullying bosses, and the innumerable exploitative practices of the tech industry.
As a member you can call on the union branch at any time to help you get the rights you want in your workplace, to advise and support you in workplace grievances, or to enforce your existing legal protections.
As a union we'll show you how to get organising together with colleagues to form a recognised union in your own workplace
Unions help workers come together, demand a better deal from their employers, and raise standards for all of us.
Unions are the reason we all enjoy paid holiday, maternity leave, and lunch breaks. They’ll offer you free legal advice if you need it, training and learning opportunities, and even discounts and offers.
More than six million workers in the UK are in a union – from nurses to pilots, actors to lorry drivers. Joining a union is affordable and easy and the benefits are huge.
We believe that workers need to look out for each other and stand together to curb the exploitative nature of tech companies and venture capital. This includes our own exploitation as tech workers, as well as the exploitation of other workers around the world.
We understand that the exploitation enacted by tech companies is a subset of the exploitation enacted by a speculative global economy driven by the search for obscene profits for the very few.
Our fight is interlinked and in support of the struggles of tech workers globally, especially in the Global South where the rapid scaling of new consumer technology is often powered by the most vulnerable and oppressed peoples.
