Technology and digital policy
Technology is rapidly transforming the world of work and impacting our lives. While technology has the potential to benefit workers, it poses a number of risks and issues that require urgent attention from policymakers.
TUAC engages with a range of OECD committees and working parties to ensure that OECD policy analysis and recommendations properly reflect and address the risks to workers arising from technology and promote the policy and regulatory frameworks needed to ensure a just and inclusive transition.
TUAC’s work on technology and digital policy is led by Sarah Jameson. For more information, please contact at jameson@tuac.org.
Rebuilding workers’ bargaining power is key to managing AI at work, TUAC argues
TUAC called for human agency and workers’ voice to be at the heart of AI development and deployment at the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission’s (IHREC) annual conference “Together Rising: Challenging Inequality, Countering Hate” in Dublin on 10 September. Legislation and ...
TUAC calls for education investment as PISA 2025 reveals deepening crisis
The latest PISA results expose a mounting crisis in education across the OECD, with student performance at its lowest recorded levels in science, reading and mathematics. TUAC calls on governments to invest in quality public education, reject the false promise that AI tools can substitute for ...
Job creation needs to go hand-in-hand with skills development, TUAC argues at Nordic-Baltic PIAAC conference
TUAC called for a shift in approach to AI transformation at this week’s Nordic-Baltic PIAAC Conference on adult skills in Jyväskylä, Finland, stressing that retraining will not be enough to address the economic disruption that likely lies ahead: governments also need to ...
Technology in healthcare must serve workers, TUAC tells OECD Forum on Gender Equality
TUAC called on policy makers to put care workers at the centre of technology decisions in healthcare at the OECD Forum on Gender Equality, held in Paris on 8–9 July. In a session on digital technologies, data and the future of the care economy, trade unions warned that new tools are no quick fix ...
‘Risk-agnostic’ approach of new OECD AI guidance a missed opportunity for workers
The OECD has today published its Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible AI, a piece of work that TUAC supported from the outset but which ultimately fails to deliver on its potential. AI development and deployment presents a wide range of risks for workers, raising new issues for ...
TUAC tackles AI risks and just transition in Zagreb as Croatia approaches OECD membership
TUAC joined Croatian trade unionists, government and OECD representatives in Zagreb this week to address the challenges facing workers amid the digital and green transitions, as Croatia approaches OECD membership. The conference, organised by the Union of Autonomous Trade Unions of Croatia ...
Trade Unions Call for Worker-Focused Economic Reform at OECD Ministerial Council Meeting
Trade unions engaged directly with OECD governments at the 2025 Ministerial Council Meeting (MCM) in Paris this week, advocating for worker-centered approaches to trade, technology, and climate policies amid persistent inequality concerns. TUAC delivered a comprehensive alternative vision in its ...
TUAC Co-Hosts AI Roundtable at MCM, Demands Worker Voice in Technology Governance
In the margins of the 2025 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, TUAC co-hosted the roundtable “AI at Work: Impacts for Productivity and Job Quality” following its 156th Plenary this week. The event, jointly organised with Business at OECD (BIAC), brought together trade union ...
New OECD report on algorithmic management reveals urgent need for worker protections
The OECD Working Paper ‘Algorithmic Management in the Workplace’ published yesterday reveals alarming adoption rates of workplace monitoring and evaluation tools, with inadequate protections in place for workers. Based on a survey of over 6,000 mid-level managers across six countries ...
Consumers need regulatory protection, not market self-regulation
46 national governments and the European Union adopted a declaration on ‘Protecting and Empowering Consumers in the Digital and Green Transitions’ at an OECD meeting of Consumer Policy Ministers. The declaration notes that consumer spending accounts for around 60% of gross domestic product ...
