The Open Data Institute looks at our project to collate workplace Covid-secure risk assessments during the pandemic.
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Workers’ rights: negotiating and co-governing digital systems at work
Algorithmic systems are a new front line for unions as well as a challenge to workers’ rights to autonomy, writes Christina Colclough for Social Europe.
Continue reading Workers’ rights: negotiating and co-governing digital systems at workHigh 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.
Continue reading High visibility and COVID-19: returning to the post-lockdown workplaceAre 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.
Continue reading Are you involved? Data Protection Impact Assessments at WorkUnionizing 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.
Continue reading Unionizing the Office in an Age of Remote WorkUnions 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.
Continue reading Unions 21 Masterclass ‘Digital tools for organising’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.
Continue reading Data, automation and AI in the time of Covid-19Digital 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 .
Continue reading Digital organising: Overcoming the trust barrierGDPR 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.
Read moreYours, 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.
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