About Sindicato

How It Started

One worker was exploited. One case became a platform. Many voices are about to become impossible to ignore.

This platform exists because a company did not pay me, and when I raised it, I was cut off. Then I found out others had been through the same thing, in the same way, across the same projects, on the same timeline. Each of us was told we were alone. Each of us believed it. None of us were.

Sindicato is the infrastructure that makes sure no one has to go through it alone.

From one case to a record

Sindicato began with one worker's unpaid invoice and a simple question: how many others had the same experience?

The answer was not one story but a pattern — unpaid work, ignored messages, closed accounts, projects that ended without a word, and silence, repeated across platforms and countries. Individual complaints disappear. A shared, public record does not.

That is what Sindicato is: a place where workers report how they were treated on a project in their own words, whether it was unpaid work, a threat or a lead who never replied, and where those reports add up to a record that workers, journalists, lawyers and companies can act on.

The Pattern

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

Across the AI training, gig delivery and freelance platform industries, workers report the same sequences: pay that stops, messages that go unanswered, sudden removal from a project, feedback that never comes. The timelines repeat. These are not isolated mistakes. They are patterns, and a pattern can sit in a whole company or in one project and the people running it.

Workers talk about this on Reddit, Glassdoor, Trustpilot and independent forums, one thread at a time. Sindicato brings those separate accounts into one place.

Sindicato makes those patterns visible. Not to punish, but to create accountability.

The Model

The uberization model — pioneered by Uber and replicated across food delivery, AI training, freelance marketplaces, therapy platforms, cleaning apps, data annotation services — shares an identical structure everywhere it appears:

Workers are classified as independent contractors, not employees. They are sourced deliberately from countries where currencies are weaker and legal options are fewer. Payment flows through platforms the company controls unilaterally. Dispute resolution is a black box operated by the same party you are in dispute with. Terms of service are written to protect the platform, not the worker. There is no collective bargaining. There is no union. There is no one to call.

This architecture lets platforms take on work while avoiding the obligations of employment. Workers in lower-currency countries are often the most exposed because they are less likely to know their legal options, less likely to afford individual legal action, and more economically desperate — making resistance costly and silence rational.

Individual complaints get ignored. Isolated workers have no leverage. Lawyers rarely take individual small claims. Social media pressure is fleeting. One person shouting into the void changes nothing.

Together, our voices become impossible to silence. This is the collective action problem that Sindicato was built to solve.

How It Works

Sindicato is a digital labour-rights platform. Workers publish their cases in their own words, with their own attestation. The platform groups individual reports by company and by project, showing what workers report and how many workers report the same thing.

It works like a modern worker syndicate:

Workers submit their case. It appears publicly on the Cases Wall, with the name partially redacted and the story visible. If the worker agrees, Sindicato notifies the company when the case is filed. Numbers aggregate on the company page, so patterns become visible.

Sindicato is free for everyone: workers, companies, lawyers, media and institutions. There are no access fees, no paid contact and no referral fees. Contact details are never shared without worker consent, and lawyers or companies can only reach workers who opted in. 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 voluntary donations from workers, attorneys, journalists, and anyone who believes workers should be treated fairly.

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.

What We Will Never Do

These are non-negotiable:

• Sindicato will never profit from worker cases.
• Sindicato will never charge anyone for access: not workers, companies, lawyers, media or institutions.
• Sindicato will never publish your private documents. Files you upload stay private to you unless you choose to share them.
• Sindicato will never verify or assert individual claims.
• Sindicato will never remove cases in exchange for payment.
• Sindicato will never alter numbers or testimony for any commercial reason.
• Sindicato will never accept advertising.
• Sindicato will never take venture capital funding.
• Sindicato will never take a percentage of worker settlements.
• We do not ask companies listed on this platform for money, and no payment can change or remove a case.
• We do not ask law firms or attorneys for money, and no payment can change or remove a case.

These are not aspirational values. They are the platform's integrity and its legal protection, simultaneously. They cannot be negotiated, traded, or compromised — because the moment they are, Sindicato becomes part of the system it was built to oppose.

Report a case

Sindicato is free for everyone, and no company can pay to have a case removed. Silence helps whoever benefits from it. Visibility helps everyone else.

If you were not paid for work you completed, if your account was deactivated after you asked a question, if a project lead stopped answering you, if you were removed without a reason, threatened, mocked, or left with no way to appeal — you are not alone. It does not have to be illegal to count. Small things matter too, because together they show how a project is run.

Report a case. Tell your story in your own words. Let the reports add up.

The door is open.