UNI joins Partnership on AI

UNI Global Union this week joined the multistakeholder Partnership on AI (PAI). PAI is dedicated to addressing a range of issues aimed at ensuring Artificial Intelligence benefits society, including how AI will affect the future world of work.

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When members can’t come to you, go to them

This summer, UNISON members successfully secured meaningful pay rises in the NHS; but members elsewhere are getting ready to fight for real terms pay rises and a deal that recognises long term pay cuts. Higher education workers across England are being consulted on their pay offer, with a view to rejecting it. The campaigns run […]

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When members can’t come to you, go to them

This summer, UNISON members successfully secured meaningful pay rises in the NHS; but members elsewhere are getting ready to fight for real terms pay rises and a deal that recognises long term pay…

Digitalisation can be shaped! Op-ed for FES

UNI Global Union was asked to write a debate article for FES Info listing some of our core demands for the future of work. Just published and available here in German only on page 8, the op-ed lists four of our core policies. Here follows a shortened English version of the article:

Podcast: Feat. UNI on the FWOW

In May 2018, Christina Colclough addressed the congress of the Irish Financial Services Union on the future world of work. The speech focused in on why workers must be aware of their data rights as management-by-algorithm spreads, and data is increasingly used in HR processes such as hiring, firing,…

Numbers deceive

Every month, if not every week, excellent papers and reports are published predicting massive job losses or the reverse: a zero-sum game as certain jobs will disappear whilst others will be created. We read these reports and learn a lot from them. From McKinsey’s 2017 report “Jobs Lost, Jobs Gained:

UNIs FWOW motion unanimously adopted

With 10 clear action points and priorities unanimously adopted, UNI Global Union has confirmed their commitment to ensuring we have a voice, are present and active in shaping the world of work we want. Acknowledging the challenges many workers across the world already face as jobs are displaced by…

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Online to offline organising – lessons from the US and Australia

Digital offers unions ways to reach out to workers that we’d find hard to access traditionally, due to hostile employers, geographical dispersion or limited organiser resources. It can also provide…

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Trade Union Website League Table 2018

Simon Parry has been looking at SEO changes in union websites over the last year. Who’s got the top spot for 2018?

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Temp agencies vs online platforms – New report out!

It will come as little surprise that the comparison between online talent platforms and the temporary agency sector revealed significant differences along a number of dimensions. Access to training and social protection was significantly less for workers in the online talent platforms. This is not…