On April 24, Google and Debating Europe hosted an event for policymakers, industry, trade unions, tech experts and start-ups to discuss the impact of automation on business growth, jobs and society. UNI Global Union was invited to the event to present our views on jobs, security, skills and why we…
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Workers across the world – with the exception of those in the EU, who will soon benefit from the provisions in the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation – have no control over the mountains of data their employers collect on them. Nor do workers know what data employers are actually using to…
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.
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…
NYON, Switzerland— UNI Global Union has released ground-breaking principles that establish new rules for governing the future world of work. The principles, to be applied to union contracts and international labour rights standards, are the first comprehensive benchmarks to give workers and their…
Earlier this week we issued our ground-breaking Top Ten Principles on Workers’ Data Protection and Ethical AI. Listen to this podcast where Christina talks about UNIs FWOW strategies and actions and explains, using jaw-dropping examples, why unions need to fight for workers’ data rights and…
What a week for the WTO. Starting with the scandalous blacklisting of civil society representatives and trade unions by the Argentinian government, the WTO Ministerial ends with no Ministerial Declaration and a strong signal to the WTO to think again.