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High visibility and COVID-19: returning to the post-lockdown workplace

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.

Are you involved? Data Protection Impact Assessments at Work

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

Unionizing the Office in an Age of Remote Work

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.

Unions 21 Masterclass ‘Digital tools for organising’

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

Data, automation and AI in the time of Covid-19

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

Digital organising: Overcoming the trust barrier

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

GDPR being misused by employers to hinder trade unions

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.

Yours, mine and our data

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.

Measuring People Power in 2020+

How could we better measure the value and impact of grassroots power building, organising and volunteer initiatives? MobLab’s latest report surveys voluntary organisations to find out the opportunities and challenges in getting smarter on our metrics.

Spotlight Beta Test II 🚀

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.