عن Sindicato

عامل واحد استُغل. قضية واحدة أصبحت منصة. أصوات كثيرة على وشك أن تصبح مستحيلة التجاهل.

هذه المنصة موجودة لأن شركة سرقت أجوري، وحين أثبتّ ذلك، انتقموا. ثم اكتشفت أنهم فعلوا الشيء ذاته لمئات آخرين، بنفس الطريقة، عبر نفس المشاريع، في نفس الجدول الزمني. قيل لكل منا إنه وحيد. صدّق كل منا ذلك. لم يكن أي منا كذلك.

Sindicato هي البنية التحتية التي تضمن ألا يحدث هذا مجددًا.

I am a senior machine learning engineer. In 2024 and 2025, I contracted with Alignerr, a platform operated by Labelbox Inc, to perform quality review and AI model evaluation work across three projects: CC Review, CHP Claude Code, and NEXT. I did the work. I logged my hours through Hubstaff time tracking. I passed the AutoQA quality checks. I followed the pinned Discord policies to the letter.

Then payment was withheld. No valid reason given.

I did what you are supposed to do. I assembled the evidence: Hubstaff logs, AutoQA scores, Discord policy screenshots. I documented the retaliation sequence that followed my escalation — the account deactivation, the project removals, the platform lockout. I packaged everything methodically and escalated formally, all the way to Labelbox's C-suite and Chief Legal Officer. I gave them five business days to resolve it.

The deadline passed. The silence continued.

This is Case #001. It is documented, timestamped, and active. It is the case that built this platform.

What I discovered after my own case shocked me, though it should not have. I was not the first. I was not the tenth. I was not even the fiftieth.

Over sixty unique workers have filed complaints across more than fifteen platforms — Reddit, Glassdoor, Trustpilot, the Better Business Bureau, Twitter, independent Discord servers, investigative journalism outlets. The complaints span two years and multiple continents. They describe the same sequence, every time: consistent payment for two to four months, then abrupt termination upon inquiring about back pay, reaching a cumulative balance of $800 to $2,100, or completing a project milestone. The amounts cluster too tightly to be random. The timeline repeats too precisely to be accidental. This is not a series of billing errors. It is a business model.

The Better Business Bureau gave Alignerr an F rating — its lowest possible score — for failing to respond to seven consecutive payment complaints. The BBB's own summary describes the company as operating "illegally." Glassdoor carries a 2.2 out of 5 rating, with algorithmically generated tags that read like an indictment: "Missing payments," "No transparency," "Stolen hours," "Random termination." On Reddit, workers who post about unpaid wages are banned within hours. The official r/alignerr subreddit operates as a reputation management tool: moderators publicly promise help, redirect complainants to a support black hole, then delete the posts. Workers created r/alignerrunofficial as an uncensored refuge — it exists precisely because the official channel cannot be trusted.

The CHP Claude Code project alone affected over five hundred workers simultaneously. Completed tasks were retroactively flipped from "passed" to "failed" — eliminating pay for work already done, en masse. An open letter posted to Reddit named the exact same three projects I worked on: CHP Claude Code, CC Review, and NEXT. Weeks of completed work, still unpaid. Forty-seven upvotes. Thirty-four comments. Then silence.

Scale AI, a $13.8 billion competitor in the same market, settled four separate worker lawsuits and exited the California independent contractor market entirely. Surge AI faces an identical class action. Three major annotation companies facing simultaneous litigation over the same practices is not coincidence. It is the industry's business model exposed.

A senior Labelbox engineer posted anonymously that the company had "burned the rest of their runway on this shitty Alignerr platform" and expected bankruptcy. Whether that prediction proves accurate is beside the point. What matters is that wage theft appears to be not a bug in the system but a feature of survival — contractors' pay treated as a discretionary expense rather than a contractual obligation.

نموذج الأوبرة — الذي بدأته Uber وتكرّر عبر توصيل الطعام وتدريب الذكاء الاصطناعي وأسواق العمل الحر ومنصات العلاج وتطبيقات التنظيف وخدمات تعليق البيانات — يشترك في بنية متطابقة أينما ظهر:

يُصنَّف العمّال كمتعاقدين مستقلين، لا موظفين. يُستقطبون عمدًا من بلدان ذات عملات أضعف وخيارات قانونية أقل. تتدفق الدفعات عبر منصات تتحكم فيها الشركة من جانب واحد. حل النزاعات صندوق أسود يديره نفس الطرف الذي يدين لك بالمال. شروط الخدمة مكتوبة لحماية المنصة، لا العامل. لا مفاوضة جماعية. لا نقابة. لا أحد تتصل به.

هذه البنية ليست عرضية. إنها تصميم متعمد لاستخراج العمل مع تجنّب الالتزامات القانونية للتوظيف. يُستهدف العمّال في البلدان ذات العملات الأقل عمدًا لأنهم أقل احتمالًا لمعرفة خياراتهم القانونية، وأقل احتمالًا لتحمّل تكاليف العمل القانوني الفردي، وأكثر يأسًا اقتصاديًا — مما يجعل المقاومة مكلفة والصمت منطقيًا.

الشكاوى الفردية تُتجاهل. العمّال المعزولون ليس لديهم نفوذ. المحامون لن يتعاملوا مع مطالبات فردية صغيرة. ضغط وسائل التواصل عابر. شخص واحد يصرخ في الفراغ لا يغيّر شيئًا.

معًا، تصبح أصواتنا مستحيلة الإسكات. هذه هي مشكلة العمل الجماعي التي بُنيت Sindicato لحلها.

Sindicato is a digital labor rights platform. Workers self-publish their cases — their own words, their own evidence, their own attestation. The platform aggregates individual reports into collective dashboards per company, quantifying the total number of affected workers, unpaid hours, and monetary debt owed.

It operates as a modern worker syndicate:

Workers submit their case. It appears publicly on the Cases Wall — name partially redacted, story fully visible. Numbers aggregate on the company dashboard. Automated notifications inform the company each time a new case is filed. The totals grow. The pressure compounds.

Companies that want to reach workers and resolve cases pay an access fee before receiving any contact information. Workers are notified immediately each time their case is viewed. Contact details are never shared without worker consent. Labor law firms can access opted-in worker clusters for class action intake. No intermediation. Firms contact workers directly. Workers own their claims. Sindicato provides the platform, not the verdict.

Sindicato takes no money from investors, advertisers, companies listed on the platform, or attorneys. It runs on the voluntary support of workers, attorneys, journalists, and anyone who believes wage theft should have consequences. All surplus beyond operational costs goes to the Worker Support Fund: small claims filing fees covered, legal consultations provided, psychological support sessions funded. Workers pay nothing. Ever.

Sindicato never verifies, endorses, or asserts individual claims. Workers attest to their own words under their own legal responsibility. The platform is the bulletin board. Workers publish. Sindicato displays.

هذه غير قابلة للتفاوض:

هذه ليست قيمًا طموحة. إنها نزاهة المنصة وحمايتها القانونية في آن واحد. لا يمكن التفاوض عليها أو مقايضتها أو المساس بها — لأن اللحظة التي يحدث فيها ذلك، تصبح Sindicato جزءًا من النظام الذي بُنيت لمعارضته.

يعمل النظام بمنطق أخلاقي بسيط: اجعل الاستغلال مكلفًا، واجعل العمّال لا يُقهرون. الشركات تموّل البنية التحتية التي تحاسبها. العمّال لا يموّلون شيئًا. الصمت سلاح الأقوياء. والوضوح دفاع الجميع.

إذا حُرمت من الدفع مقابل عمل أنجزته، إذا أُلغي تفعيل حسابك بعد أن سألت عن أجور غير مدفوعة، إذا أُرسبت مهامك المنجزة بأثر رجعي لإلغاء أجرك، إذا طُلب منك الانتظار بينما تحوّلت الأسابيع إلى أشهر والأشهر إلى صمت — لست وحدك. قيل لك إنك كذلك. كان ذلك كذبًا.

قدّم قضيتك. اروِ قصتك بكلماتك. دع الأرقام تتراكم. دع الضغط يتضاعف.

الباب مفتوح.