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.
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 ...
OECD Technology Forum – Think about future by looking back warns union leader
In a speech to the OECD’s Global Forum on Technology, Christy Hoffman, General Secretary of UNI Global Union, drew from history and her own past experience to argue for technological change to be accompanied by labour policies that favour and even incentivise unionisation. Speaking at a session ...
Labour Ministers agree G7 AI plan, but ignore cost-of-living and climate crises
As requested by G7 Leaders, Labour Ministers from G7 countries agreed a ‘G7 Action Plan for a human-centred adoption of safe, secure and trustworthy AI in the World of Work’. The Plan includes positive commitments to “Promoting the active involvement and consultation of workers and ...
Unions meet G7 Ministers in Cagliari on wage growth, AI and climate action
Trade unionists from G7 countries met with Ministers, international policymakers and business leaders in Cagliari today to Underline the urgent need for Governments to deliver environmentally and socially sustainable growth with real wage growth for working people. Tackle the climate crisis by ...
Shaping the advancement of Artificial Intelligence through social dialogue
The labour and business leaders of G7 countries – the Labour 7 and Business 7 – have agreed a joint statement for the G7 Labour and Employment Ministers meeting in Cagliari, Italy taking place on 11-13 September 2024. The joint statement ‘Shaping the advancement of Artificial ...
Urgent action needed to guard against risks and harms from Artificial Intelligence and immersive technologies
The OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2024 (Volume 1) released on 14 May reports that there is a currently a “vacuum of comprehensive policy by governments” regarding immersive technologies, with data suggesting that policy action has so far focused on supporting their development. Similarly, the ...
Science and Technology Policy Ministers agree to engage with unions and enhance teaching and research professions
The OECD Declaration on Transformative Science, Technology and Innovation Policies for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future adopted today by ministers from OECD countries: Acknowledges the importance of engaging trade unions and business in the design, implementation and evaluation of science, ...
Global Unions stand in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America West and Writers Guild of America East (jointly, WGA) have been on strike since 2 May. Our brothers and sisters are fighting for the future of writing and for the ability to develop and sustain careers in the entertainment industry in the face of the pressures of ...
Download (186.89 KB)G20 Finance outlines structural reform agenda on digitalisation and climate, post COVID-19
Version française à la suite At their meeting on 10-11 July 2021, G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors adopted a Communiqué outlining a number of commitments to engage in structural reforms in light of digitalisation and climate change, and paved the way for reform of the ...
