On 12 December the information, communications, technology and services (ICTS) branch of the European skills and services trade union federation UNI Europa published a report dedicated to artificial intelligence and its impact on jobs and employment. The report sends a clear message: “Trade unions must engage in within the AI debate to protect and enhance workers’ rights, human rights, and decent working standards.” The trade union organisation invites its affiliates to play a key role in driving collective bargaining to bridge the gaps that exist in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), under which there is no obligation for company audits or communication with trade unions. In the report, UNI Europa ICTS identifies “three topics of concern”, which are “data collection and management, skills and training and a just transition”.
Collection, management and analysis of the “ethics and integrity” of data. First of all, for an approach to data collection that protects “workers’ privacy and productivity”, the report calls on unions to hold negotiations to ensure “the legitimate purpose” of such collection, while upholding the “principle of minimum invasion”. It promotes the establishment of “methods for data collection [that are] sophisticated enough to collect only the data related to the intended workplace”, as well as a
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