I’m fairly confident this is the first ever news article based on a web pay calculator going offline. A dubious honour, but this is the story of the online world.
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I’m fairly confident this is the first ever news article based on a web pay calculator going offline. A dubious honour, but this is the story of the online world.
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Work patterns have changed, and unions also have to change – if we’re going to organise and support the workers of the future.
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Work patterns have changed, and unions also have to change – if we’re going to organise and support the workers of the future.
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At the OECD “AI: Intelligent Machines, Smart Policies”, event in Paris in October 2017, Director of Platform & Agency Workers, Digitalisation and Trade Christina Colclough warned that we must act now to create a sustainable future for working people in the digital economy.
WhatsApp is the world’s most popular messaging application with over a billion users. It’s a great way to share information quickly and securely around groups of friends and colleagues.
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After several weeks of strike action, Deliveroo workers in the Netherlands have something to celebrate. The Dutch government has launched a full-scale investigation in to one of the dark sides of the gig economy – the strategy of employing workers on bogus self-employment contracts despite working…
In her most recent column, Investigations correspondent at the Financial Times Sarah O’Connor reports on the dangers of ‘management by algorithm’. UNI’s ground-breaking principles on data rights and ethical AI are prominently featured as an example of labour’s response to the challenges these…
In 2017, UNI gave an intervention at the OECD conference “AI: Intelligent Machines, Smart Policies”. The OECD has now linked to our work and published it on the OECD Forum. At the conference we spoke of the Urgency of Now, of why we must ask ourselves what society we want, as everything imaginable,…
UNI Global Union asked Dr Victoria Nash from the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University, for her opinion on the challenges and potentials of the digital economy. Read her thought-provoking article on Big Tech, algorithms, power, the role of unions, regulation and whether we should wish it all…