Yonatan Miller

Organizing

• Elected Works Council Chair, Economic Committee and Central Works Council member. Was negotiator on mass-layoffs negotiations at my workplace, ShareNow.

• Founded Berlin Tech Workers Coalition in 2019, a grassroots resource for all workers in the tech industry including platforms, large enterprise firms and all the startups in between.

• Launched BerlinVsAmazon campaigns; responsible for global digital organizing across Twitter, Facebook and Telegram (2019 — Present)

• Manage and set up rapid responses for legal support of #BlackLivesMatter protestors through SMS based organizing with Cel.ly tool (2012 — 2015)

• Managed Facebook presence, fundraising and fact checking for Chelsea Manning Support Network (2012 — 2013)

• Core member of Occupy Wall Street social media collective Tweetboat @OccupyWallStNYC (2011 — 2014)

Select speaking and writing Engagements

• Wikipedia articles on unionizing at Apple, Volkswagen received Good Article status. Have organized two separate edit-a-thons on labour topics.

• Labor.a panelist on digital transformation

• re:publica panelist at Transforming Solidarities: Praktiken und Infrastrukturen in der Migrationsgesellschaft (May 2021)

• How Amazon became the Death Star of the Covid-19 Pandemic MoneyLab panel at Institute of Networked Cultures (March 2021)

• Facilitated weekend workshops about Invisible Organisations on Platform Economy (November 2020)

• Panelist at Disruption Network Lab conference on Amazon (March 2020)

• Conducted workshop (📸, photo) ‘Social Media Done Right: Strategies for Facebook, Twitter and Other Platforms You Never Heard Of!’ at HIA Conference Against Antisemitism (Nov 2019)

• Published dozen press releases and news interviews for Berlin Tech Workers Coalition (2019 — Present)

• Occupy All Tweets: An Insider Perspective at Politics of Twitter Conference (May 2017)

Labour Policies and Globalisation (MA)

October 2020 — September 2021

University of Kassel // Berlin School of Economics (HWR) 📍Germany

• MA programme on trade unions, globalization, ecological/just transition and social movements with fellow trade unionists and organizers from 18 different countries around the globe.

• Elected student representative for one year term. As a student representative, I am part of the selection committee for the following year’s cohort of future labor scholars.

• Completed an internship with UNI Global Union’s Information, Communication, Technology and Services Branch.

Software Engineering Immersive

April — September 2014

Flatiron School 📍 New York City, US

• Completed four modules consisting of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby and Web Framework.

Advanced Data Bootcamp

July 2013

New Organizing Institute 📍 Washington DC, US

• Exposure to advanced features of Excel macros, VAN software and SQL

Software Engineer

August 2019 — Present

ShareNow GmbH 📍 Berlin, Germany

Software Engineer

December '18 — June 2019

Curated Shopping Group GmbH 📍 Berlin, Germany

Backend Software Engineer

February 2017 — August 2018

DaWanda GmbH 📍 Berlin, Germany

FullStack Developer

August — October 2016

Bitspire GmbH 📍 Berlin, Germany

Data Fellow

September — November 2014

DemocracyWorks/TurboVote 📍 New York City, US