Author: TUC Digital Lab

The return from lockdown is bringing with it a surge of data collection about work and workers. Will employers get hooked and keep the surveillance after the crisis has gone, and how can workers have a meaningful say, asks Prospect’s Andrew Pakes.

GDPR offers workers a powerful tool to govern and oversee the use of technologies in workplaces, argues Christina Colclough.

One troubling consequence of the disappearance of the office is that a potentially permanent increase in remote work will almost certainly make it harder for workers to organise, writes J C Pan in The New Republic.

Watch this recording of a webinar with Alison Charlton, Digital Engagement Manager at Unison, on choosing the right digital tools to organise your members.

UNI Global Union on how Covid-19 may erode workers’ rights to privacy and to disconnect.

Henry Skewes of Unions21 has been piloting online campaigns with non-union workers. He’s written up what they learned so far .

An ETUC survey of affiliates about the implementation of GDPR in member states found a worrying new trend of employers abusing the law to deny trade unions their right to contact workers digitally at work.

UNI Global Union’s Christina Colclough features on a Norwegian union podcast, talking about why we need to be critical towards the massive surveillance and monitoring we are subject to as workers and as citizens.

Prospect and Bectu teams dug deep into the possibilities of using Spotlight – UNI Global Union’s privacy respecting, worker empowering tool – at a beta launch event.