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Who would you hire?

Be a CEO with a lust for using algorithms to hire people. Play this online game to find out who you would recruit. Learn about data bias, discrimination and the opacity of automated decision-making UNI has warned far and wide about the challenges, dangers even, of using data, algorithms and autonomous systems in human resources. … Read more

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When Algorithms Hire and Fire

Take a second and consider whether you would you have your job, if an algorithm had been in charge of hiring you? Read article extract by UNIs Christina Colclough here, download full version below Take a second and consider whether you would you have your job, if an algorithm had been in charge of hiring … Read more

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Spotlight Beta Test II

Prospect and Bectu teams from the UK dug deep into the possibilities of using Spotlight – our privacy respecting, worker empowering tool – at our event today. Spotlight will be made public in March! Prospect and Bectu teams from the UK dug deep into the possibilities of using Spotlight – our privacy respecting, worker empowering … Read more

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Survey: Grim Reality for Young Workers

Results from a 1,700 strong survey conducted in Australia, the UK and Latin America reveal that young workers face mounting frustration over insufficient wages, rising costs, understaffing, and the consequences of digitalisation, all of which compound poor mental health. The Young Workers’ Lab at UNI Global Union conducted this survey in 2019 with partners in each region. The results encompass … Read more

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PODCAST: Yours, mine and our data

Podcast: UNIs Christina Colclough was in Norway in Feb 2020 to give a number speeches on data, data governance, why and how we must object to all this surveillance and co-create a new digital ethos! Make a coffee, feet up and listen to this podcast on why we need to be critical towards the massive surveillance and … Read more

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At the forefront of AI

On March 4, Negotia’s President, Monica Paulsen, sat down with UNI’s Christina Colclough for a chat about artificial intelligence, AI, workers’ data rights, the fears and reality of automation and much more. Here are a few key excerpts: Monica: What are main technical developments we should be aware of in the next 2-3 years? Christina: … Read more

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Genderless Digitalisation

Over the past year Friends of Europe has crowdsourced ideas, opinions, insights and experiences from policymakers, industry and civil society, to think deeply about the implications of the 4th Industrial Revolution. UNI Equal Opportunities Coordinator, Marta Ochoa contributed to the report with a chapter on The Path to Genderless Digitalisation. Technology and automation need not be our enemies. With … Read more

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Using peer-to-peer SMS to have real conversations aimed at member retention – RCM case study

Our membership within the Royal College of Midwives consists of a very specific workforce – midwives and maternity support workers, and there’s a clear pathway into that workforce through midwifery students. We’re lucky to have the opportunity to engage and recruit them throughout their course and before qualification; however some work needed to be done … Continue reading Using peer-to-peer SMS to have real conversations aimed at member retention – RCM case study

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Five lessons on leadership for union digital change – Kevin Courtney

Since the start of the TUC’s Digital Lab project in 2019, my NEU Joint GS colleague Mary Bousted and I have shared the newly created role of lead members for digital change on the TUC’s Executive Committee. We’ve talked with other union leaders about this on many occasions, as well as trying to take forward … Continue reading Five lessons on leadership for union digital change – Kevin Courtney

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Calling All Tech Workers! LaborNotes is Organizing a Conference

As we try to figure out a direction here (Walton and I are thinking this through) it is important to elevate events and this is certainly one every able person should attend! If you are in or able to go to NYC this conference is an important one! As a long time attendee and organizer […]