Freddy: Despite high approval ratings for unions and growing worker interest in organizing, employees in the United States still face significant barriers to securing collective bargaining agreements. A key factor is employer counter-organizing: efforts to suppress unionization through rule changes, retaliation, and disruption. Designing sociotechnical tools and strategies to resist these tactics requires a deeper understanding of the role computing technologies play in counter-organizing against unionization. In this paper, we examine three high-profile organizing effort using publicly available sources to identify four recurring technological tactics: surveillance, spacing, screaming and scabbing. We analyze how these tactics operate across contexts, highlighting their digital dimensions and strategic deployment. We conclude with implications for organizing in digitally-mediated workplaces, directions for future research, and emergent forms of worker resistance.

Tyler: The past fifteen years have seen radical changes in the risks and stigma associated with far right activism in the United States. This talk examines one facet of this progression, the rise of the "alt-tech" media ecosystem in response to both deplatforming and deplatformization on the part of mainstream technology vendors. We will cover some recent history of the American far right; the meaning and current state of alt-tech; and alt-tech's relevance to broader questions about how far-right political actors reason about online privacy and social media use.