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.
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 ...
Workers in the On-location Platform Economy – Global Unions’ Policy Demands
On-location platform workers are treated abysmally as app-based employers use underhanded definitions and loopholes in the law to duck their responsibilities. The platform economy is a challenge to the working conditions and labour rights of all workers. A new paper with a set of demands from ...
The limits of data rights for the workplace
Many discussions around data governance revolve around firms, citizens and consumers – and rightfully so. One aspect that is being under-discussed is the workplace. This shows in both existing regulatory approaches and the application of competition policy, as well as in discussions on new ...
