09:00 Friday, 11 April 2025

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Berlin Tech Workers Coalition will host the largest English speaking and tech worker-led conference in Germany, together with our trade unions ver.di B+B and IG Metall Berlin. We hosted it in 2022 and 2023 and are excited to organize it for a 3rd time!

Friday, 11 April 2025 is open for all Works Council members (registration required). As a Works Council training per BetrVG 37(6), you can do this training during working hours, and conference fee is paid by your employer. Register here: and find Works Council resolution template to send your members:

11 April Schedule

Time Panel
09:00 ☕️ Morning Check in
09:30 Introduction and Welcome
10:00 Parallel roundtables on current workplace issues, identification of common issues, exchange of experiences, best practices
12:00 🥙 Lunch break (vegetarian/vegan food)
13:00 Workshop 1: Are Performance Improvement Plans (PiPs) even a thing in Germany? What are the employment law regulations and what is the role of the Works Council? (Room 6 – ground floor)
13:00 Workshop 2: Working Strategically: Expanding Leverage and Building Capacities Whether Confronting hostile management, misinfomration, flood-the-zone-with-shit managerial strategies, or burn out, the intiial phase of works councils has revealed a repetoire of employer tactics to contain and control worker initiative. How do we overcome such strategies and expand leverage and build capacities of workers to transform how work in tech looks and feels like? (Conference room – 5th floor)
13:00 Workshop 3: ESOPs, VSOPs and the role of the woco: What to do with employer offers stock options? (Room 2 – ground floor)
13:00 Workshop 4: Mass layoffs Restructuring and the Role of Works Councils (Room 1 – ground floor)
14:30 ☕️ Coffee break
15:00 Workshop 5: The Works Constitution Act as a means to oppose organizing (Room 6 ground floor)
15:00 Workshop 6: Remuneration through works agreements or collective bargaining? What are the woco’s rights and what differences are there between the unions’ collective agreements and works agreements? (Conference room 5th floor)
15:00 Workshop 7: (Self-)Care and how to not be overwhelmed (Room 2 ground floor)
15:00 Workshop 8: Union activities and WoCo members (Room 1 ground floor)
16:30 ☕️ Coffee break
17:00 Closing panel on workplace discrimination,the Gender Pay Gap and workers’ counter strategies (Conference room 5th floor)
18:30 Reflection phase, next steps, end of conference
19:30 Get together 🕺🪩

Email us conference@techworkersberlin.com if you have questions!

Tech Workers Conference 2025 with logos of TWC, Verdi,

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