PRESS RELEASE: EPIC and the National Institute for Workers’ Rights Release White Paper on Algorithmic Unionbusting
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Washington, D.C. — Today, EPIC and the National Institute for Workers' Rights (NIWR) released a white paper titled Who's Got the Power? Restoring Worker Power in the Age of Algorithmic Unionbusting, documenting how employers increasingly use surveillance technologies, algorithmic management systems, and vast stores of worker data to identify, monitor, and interfere with workers seeking to organize.
  • Enchanted@lemmy.world
    22·
    1 day ago

    greater guardrails around automated decision-making systems

    Oh yeah, absolutely. Decisions would be fairly weighed from management vs a machine doing it. /s

    Union workers need to not be so lazy and actually, you know, unionize (meet in-person) nowadays. Attend your monthly meetings! They’re in your favor after all…

    • chobeat@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      17 hours ago

      the article is about workplaces where there’s little to none IRL interaction among workers, by design. Separation and remote work are one of the main challenges to organizing these days and you cannot dismiss them with a moralizing comment.