Tech Layoffs Threaten Unions’ Plan to Draw White-Collar Workers

A wave of layoffs in Silicon Valley is threatening union plans to organize big tech.

Cuts at Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Coinbase, and dozens of other companies could limit labor’s ambitious campaign to win over white-collar workers that have never unionized—and, some argue, are vital to unions’ survival.

Some 500 technology companies have axed nearly 100,000 workers since last October, according to Layoffs.fyi, a public database of tech layoffs. Amazon this month announced it would cut 18,000 jobs, and on the same day, cloud computing company Salesforce and the online video-sharing service Vimeo said they would ...