Sobre Sindicato

Un trabajador fue explotado. Un caso se convirtió en una plataforma. Muchas voces están a punto de volverse imposibles de ignorar.

Esta plataforma existe porque una empresa me robó mis salarios, y cuando lo demostré, tomaron represalias. Luego descubrí que habían hecho lo mismo con cientos de otros, de la misma manera, en los mismos proyectos, en el mismo período. A cada uno de nosotros nos dijeron que estábamos solos. Cada uno de nosotros lo creyó. Ninguno lo estaba.

Sindicato es la infraestructura que asegura que eso nunca vuelva a pasar.

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.

El modelo de uberización — pionero en Uber y replicado en entregas de comida, entrenamiento de IA, mercados freelance, plataformas de terapia, aplicaciones de limpieza, servicios de anotación de datos — comparte una estructura idéntica en todas partes donde aparece:

Los trabajadores son clasificados como contratistas independientes, no empleados. Son reclutados deliberadamente de países donde las monedas son más débiles y las opciones legales son menos. El pago fluye a través de plataformas que la empresa controla unilateralmente. La resolución de disputas es una caja negra operada por la misma parte que te debe dinero. Los términos de servicio están escritos para proteger a la plataforma, no al trabajador. No hay negociación colectiva. No hay sindicato. No hay a quién llamar.

Esta arquitectura no es accidental. Es un diseño deliberado para extraer trabajo evitando las obligaciones legales del empleo. Los trabajadores en países con monedas más débiles son específicamente seleccionados porque es menos probable que conozcan sus opciones legales, menos probable que puedan costear una acción legal individual, y más desesperados económicamente — haciendo que la resistencia sea costosa y el silencio racional.

Las quejas individuales son ignoradas. Los trabajadores aislados no tienen poder de negociación. Los abogados no toman reclamos individuales pequeños. La presión en redes sociales es pasajera. Una persona gritando al vacío no cambia nada.

Juntos, nuestras voces se vuelven imposibles de silenciar. Este es el problema de acción colectiva que Sindicato fue construido para resolver.

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.

Estos son innegociables:

Estos no son valores aspiracionales. Son la integridad de la plataforma y su protección legal, simultáneamente. No pueden ser negociados, intercambiados ni comprometidos — porque en el momento en que lo sean, Sindicato se convierte en parte del sistema contra el que fue construido para oponerse.

El sistema funciona con una lógica ética simple: hacer que la explotación sea costosa, hacer que los trabajadores sean imparables. Las empresas financian la infraestructura que las hace responsables. Los trabajadores no financian nada. El silencio es el arma de los poderosos. La visibilidad es la defensa de todos los demás.

Si te negaron el pago por un trabajo que completaste, si tu cuenta fue desactivada después de preguntar sobre salarios impagos, si tus tareas completadas fueron reprobadas retroactivamente para eliminar tu pago, si te dijeron que esperaras mientras las semanas se convirtieron en meses y los meses en silencio — no estás solo. Te dijeron que lo estabas. Eso fue una mentira.

Presenta tu caso. Cuenta tu historia en tus propias palabras. Deja que los números se acumulen. Deja que la presión se multiplique.

La puerta está abierta.