​BIG First Union Contract for Tech Workers at ActBlue

After 19 months of bargaining, 100 members of CWA Local 1400 reached an agreement with their employer, ActBlue, for a major, industry-leading first union contract.

Workers at ActBlue, a leading campaign funding and donation platform, drive the core internal work keeping the fundraising platform running and helping to expand the organization’s mission. The tasks performed by these workers have taken on even more significance in advance of the 2024 Elections, in which thousands of campaigns are collecting donations and raising funds through ActBlue’s small donation platform.

"By exercising our solidarity and collective power, our union has won a contract with solid protections that will meaningfully impact our working conditions and our lives,” said Cynthia Mancha, ActBlue worker and member of the Bargaining Committee. “Though we’ve faced a lot of adversity throughout the bargaining process, we’ve endured and are proud of this milestone we’ve reached as a unit! It’s a precarious time for workers in this country, and tech workers have been subjected to that precarity with increasing frequency and callousness over the last few years with an uptick in layoffs across the sector. We’re excited not only about how our contract wins will govern our workplace, but also about how they might inform and influence organizing efforts in the tech industry and beyond."

The contract includes several first-of-its-kind items for workers in the tech industry, including:

• No employer surveillance, including the use of employee-monitoring technology
• Worker protections regarding the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Changes to parental leave allowing workers to take leave either continuously or intermittently in their first twelve months

Other contract wins include significant wage increases for each year over the life of the contract; establishment of just cause, union representation, grievance, arbitration, and progressive discipline procedures; assurance that ActBlue management will remain neutral if any non-union-represented employees choose to unionize in the future; and more.

“These workers are absolutely essential to the backbone of our democratic process,” said Local 1400 President Don Trementozzi. “We all know how big this election is this year, and it was very important to us to settle a strong, fair contract so that these workers can have a voice in their workplace, and to have a strong contract that protects them on the job. The tech world is changing fast, and we need to make sure that workers are not left behind as more companies move towards things like AI and more automation. This contract will set standards for tech workers throughout the country—I couldn’t be more proud of this agreement.”