A short video sharing my thoughts on Day 2 of @The_TUC Congress, as a @GMBDurham Branch Delegate, & speaking with both Mick Lynch of @RMTunion and @AngelaRayner.

Mon. 11/09/23 - ACC Liverpool

@GMB_union
@GMBNorthern
#TUC
#TradeUnions
#Congress
#Labour

https://youtu.be/nSq5qKpMLYw

Dropping in on the #TUC conference today…

Y’day, Congress agreed to complain to the UN about the UK government’s anti-strike legislation.

A reminder that union-busting, by employers or gov’ts, including restricting the right to #strike, is stupid as well as spiteful… the industrial relations equivalent of disconnecting smoke alarms to reduce pressure on the fire service.

Not to mention: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
inevitable."

#tradeUnions

A short video sharing some of my thoughts and experiences of the first day of my first ever @The_TUC Congress, for @GMB_union, as a @GMBDurham Branch Delegate.

Sun, 10/09/23, ACC Liverpool
👊🫶

#GMB
#TUC
#TradeUnions
#Congress
#Conference
#Liverpool

https://youtu.be/LlCea7jRD0c?si=nKmKwHDLtARoL5Xo

#TradeUnions #Badges
As delegates gather in Liverpool for the start of #TUC23, we look back at more than one hundred years of commemorative badges https://sslh.org.uk/2022/12/01/slogans-and-souvenirs-tuc-delegate-badges-from-1899-to-the-present-day/

Happy #LaborDay for those in the #USA - and for those who don't get the day off (without compensation) - this is why we need stronger #TradeUnions

My weekend #reading: https://abookapart.com/products/you-deserve-a-tech-union

#BookClub
#TechUnions

Gizmodo: NLRB Says Companies That Union-Bust Must Recognize Busted Union https://gizmodo.com/nlrb-new-guidelines-for-union-busting-1850775649?utm_source=regular #cemexconstructionmaterialspacificllc #nationallaborrelationsboard #nlrbelectionprocedures #unitedstateslaborlaw #theblueeagleatwork #laborrelations #laurenmcferran #unionbusting #tradeunions #labor

New programs from broadcasters dedicated to preventing the spread of misinformation are a start, but they'd benefit from collaboration with medical workers and their representatives. We'd love to see (or help facilitate) collab between independent media and unions.

#covid19 #media #misinformation #fakenews #tradeunions

https://www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p1684

Here’s a list of some of the shit our far right, nazi-joke-government is planning to push through regarding employees and trade unions.

i am personally rooting for a general strike since this is just the tip of an iceberg when it comes to backwards shit this government plans to hammer through.

#naziJokeGovernment #farRightPolitics #politics #politicsFI #finland #fuckNazis #cabinetOfHorrors #fascim #generalStrike #rightToStrike #joinATradeUnion #unions #tradeUnions

Wowee… browsing online ‘#reviews’ of #tradeUnions, and wondering what is #TrustPilot’s obligation to moderate what goes in there before digitally defaming companies???

The RMT ‘reviews’ are a case in point. Most of these aren’t even *pretending* to be from RMT members complaining about RMT services: it’s mostly ‘my daughter’s stuck in London thanks to greedy train drivers’ (⭐️) or the equally pointless ‘Mick Lynch is my hero’ (⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.rmt.org.uk

Recording now up for today’s DAMA UK x Unions 21 discussion on the current state of #data, #dataStrategy and #dataCulture in #tradeUnions, with me and my great friend Becky Wright.

Look out for us taking it in turns with our “Oh sweet Jesus, where’s she going with this?” expressions… neither one of us does a great poker face. 😂

https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12405/590421?utm_campaign=user_webcast_register&utm_medium=email&utm_source=brighttalk-transact&utm_content=title&player-preauth=uB4EyX7V1XGwJ%2BHeoLYLpNyXMdX1Q3krywAPhfBkgkY%3D

Well worth a read - good piece on the changing face and culture of trade unions from @igmetall's @benner_ch
Women in leadership must always put down ladders behind them. We stand on the shoulders of those whose ladders we've used. @klaudia_frieben @IsabelleBarthes @EstherLynchs
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Social Europe: Changing the face of trade-union leadership https://buff.ly/44QO74b
Women are increasingly assuming leading roles in #tradeunions. Next comes changing organisational cultures. @benner_ch https://t.co/rQlbILi2rr
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Jude_KD/status/1681968130745040897

"The idea that these (ADM) systems are “black boxes” that cannot be meaningfully understood by non-experts in Machine Learning, advanced statistics or computer science is a useful myth."

Hear, hear.

#datafiedworkers #surveillancesystems in the #workplace
#TUC #tradeunions #AI #HR #law #lawfedi #lawprofs

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/auto-hr/

RT industriAll Europe
The #costofliving crisis continues.
Workers once again bear the burden of a crisis that they did not instigate.
Across Europe #tradeunions and workers have been mobilising and continue to fight against Austerity 2.0.💪💪
https://news.industriall-europe.eu/Article/923

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/industriAll_EU/status/1674690057653964800

RT WE-TRANSFORM
MEP @dani_rondinelli was at our last Stakeholder Forum Workshop hosted by @AustriaTech.
There, she discussed and learnt from #researchers, #tradeunions, and #companies about the future of the transport workforce.
🎥 https://t.co/lsyKAiuMNF

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/TransformWe/status/1674355646999691266

RT industriAll Europe
The AI Act is a step in the right direction. ✔️
But #TradeUnions call for a specific legal instrument to address the impact of #AI on the world of work.
💻👩‍💻
We need investment in training, well-functioning social dialogue &amp; collective bargaining ❗️
https://news.industriall-europe.eu/Article/920 https://t.co/Wuw9T5rKDu

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/industriAll_EU/status/1672168926128623616

Doune the plug hole. Union statement on the cancelled festival.

Just. Pay. Your. Workers.

#festivals #Scotland #TradeUnions

https://bectu.org.uk/news/joint-union-statement-on-doune-the-rabbit-hole-festival-cancellation

#EU #AI #GenerativeAI #AIAct #LabourLaw #TradeUnions: "The EU's emerging AI act contains so little on workers' rights that Europe will need a separate AI-labour law, trade unions say.

Last Wednesday (14 June), the European Parliament adopted its position on the Artificial Intelligence Act — a game-changing set of rules for AI-based products and services.

MEPs inched further on labour rights than the original European Commission proposal.

But in the race to legislate potentially disruptive technologies, EU institutions are still largely overlooking the workers affected by incoming AI systems, unionists say.

AI is changing workers' lives in many ways."

https://euobserver.com/digital/157163

«We wouldn’t accept your boss just standing behind you all day, watching and analysing everything you were doing. But basically the equivalent of that is possible through technology.»

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/may/30/i-feel-constantly-watched-employees-working-under-surveillance-monitorig-software-productivity

#surveillance #tradeunions

Trade unions try to adapt to new world realities

https://www.dw.com/en/trade-unions-try-to-adapt-to-new-world-realities/a-65668539?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#tradeunions #jobs #workers #strikes #jobsecurity #EuropeanTradeUnionConfederation

Imagine this being the side you're on and thinking you're about free speech

#freespeech #workersrights #WorkplaceRights #tradeunions #gender #lgbtq #queer #pronouns #freedom #queerness

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/houghton-university-pronouns-raegan-zelaya-wesleyan-church-b2343217.html