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UNIONS must act now to stop employers turning AI into a job-killing catastrophe, Unite policy conference agreed today.
Moving composite 1, London & Eastern’s Wayne Morgan warned that “during the pandemic Cloud technology didn’t just allow many workers to work from home — it allowed employers to collect data from their workforce on a scale, in both detail and volume, never before imagined.”
Though robots are the “most obvious physical manifestation of making human labour redundant, they are not even close to being the main job killers — which are algorithms,” he pointed out.
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street
Durham Miners’ Association general secretary ALAN MARDGHUM speaks to Ben Chacko ahead of Gala Day 2025
