And if you haven't had a chance to read it yet, Enshittification is a great read, thoroughly recommended. Available in all good bookstores (as well as huge enshittified ones)
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3341-enshittificationReally inspiring to help host a union event with
@pluralistic and some great tech activists this week. Looking at what
#enshittification means for UK tech workers, and why tech unions are a big part of his prescription to disenshittify tech. Video online now at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m11hmiHu6Tc&t
Tech unions against enshittification - with Cory Doctorow
Key provisions to make a big difference:
* Compulsory Workplace AI Risk Assessments for new systems, to be shared with workers.
* Direct consultation rights for workers & unions.
* Registers of AI systems making risky work decisions.
* Rights to explanation and human reconsideration of decisions.
It's a thorough and ready-made resource for any government that wants to tackle the urgent challenges of AI in the UK's workplaces. Now we need the political will to make use of it.
It's been put together with a stellar cast of experts from the worlds of work and tech - including Cambridge Uni's Minderoo Centre, Ada Lovelace Insitute, CIPD, British Computer Society, trade unions and cross-party MPs - and drafted by Cloisters Chambers' AI Law Consultancy.
The Artificial Intelligence (Regulation and Employment Rights) Bill - to give it its full title - is a great step towards getting clear regulations on AI in the workplace, ensuring transparency and fairness for workers, and rights to redress against black box management decisions.
📢 Very excited to see @the-tuc.bsky.social
's new AI at work draft bill, which is launching today
https://www.tuc.org.uk/research-analysis/reports/ai-bill-project
The AI Bill Project
The TUC has been conducting a four-year project on the use of AI in the employment relationship, assisted by a trade union working group (The TUC AI Working Group. This project has focused on algorithmic management. We have undertaken research, commissioned a legal report, published a manifesto for change and guidance for trade union reps.
🛡️ Help safeguard your union with advice on mitigations, especially MFA, phishing simulation training and the government-backed Cyber Essentials programme. Download the report here
https://digital.tuc.org.uk/cyber-security-for-unions/
Cyber security for unions - TUC Digital Lab
Cyber security underpins everything we do in unions to build up our digital systems and create a better digital experience for our members. Without the trust that our data is safe from attack any union would be severely compromised. As data storage has moved online, this has seen an increase in the scope of digital … Continue reading Cyber security for unions
🔒 The TUC Digital Lab's latest report looks at the specific challenges trade unions face in cyber security, and how we protect our members' data. Wider tech changes from AI to WFH are causing the threats to evolve and multiply... 1/
Oh no! Trusty old laptop finally expired, so I need to start my trade union sticker collection all over again. Anyone got swaps?
