Heat stress can immediately impact workers on the job, leading to illnesses such as heat exhaustion, heatstroke, and even death. In the longer term, workers can develop serious and debilitating …
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BARGAINING OVER WORKERS’ DATA RIGHTS: How Unions and Works Councils Can Use Collective Bargaining to Specify Workplace Data Protection Norms
“Workplace compliance with existing data protection law appears poor. A variety of reasons explain poor compliance, including a lack of legal clarity. Therefore, in order to boost workplace data protection …
Improving Workplace Data Protection Compliance
Achieving Workplace GDPR Compliance, Clarifying National Workplace Data Protection Rules, and Enhancing Worker Data Protection through Social Dialogue This paper explores what social partners, governments and civil society organisations can …
Care platforms: Impacts and challenges from a trade union perspective
“Increasing demand for long-term care (LTC) is a critical issue for the European Union (EU). According to the European Care Strategy, currently around 6 million people work in LTC in …
Just for show: Worker representation in Asia’s garment sector & the role of fashion brands & employers
“As the fashion industry grapples with supply chain disruption, climate breakdown, geopolitical trade shifts, the aftermath of the pandemic and a rapidly evolving landscape of human rights and environmental regulation …
Extreme Heat Is More Dangerous for Workers Every Year
Heat-related illness has been recognized as an occupational hazard for decades. Extreme heat conditions are increasing in frequency across the United States, exposing a rising number of workers to conditions …
Algorithmic Management and a New Generation of Rights at Work
Technology is once again transforming the world of work. The introduction of new technologies in the workplace has long been a site of tension and contestation between workers and employers, …
Unions Give Workers a Voice Over How AI Affects Their Jobs
As policymakers seek solutions to the current and future impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on workers across the country, workers themselves are using their union bargaining power to negotiate contract …
At Work and Under Watch: Surveillance and suffering at Amazon and Walmart warehouses
“Amazon and Walmart are the two largest private employers in the United States, and together these two megacorporations have amassed unprecedented levels of wealth. Both companies have succeeded by pioneering …
Digital labour platforms and migrant workers
Analysing migrants’ working conditions and (over)representation in platform work in Europe “Working for labour platforms is still relatively rare, but the generally poor working conditions and the impact on the …
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