The Joint Unite & UTAW Google organising committee has formally launched its campaign to secure joint union recognition for Googlers working in the UK.
Both Unite & the CWU UTAW branch have agreed to work together in the interests of Googlers.
James Bowen
Summer 2024 events
Here are some events put on by organisations our branch is affiliated with, or which form part of the trade union calendar.
Artificial Intelligence and workers’ rights
By Tony Burke, Campaign for Trade Union Freedom.
This article was originally published in the Morning Star.
The Trade Union Congress’s special task force report on Artificial Intelligence and Employment Rights Bill was launched at the TUC Congress House in London on April 18th. Comprising of the TUC, the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, unions academics and employment rights specialists the task force was set up to try to secure proper regulation of AI and algorithmic management in order to halt the UK’s tech sector from becoming the ‘wild west’ of the economy.
You can read the full report with the draft bill here.
Summer 2023 events
We’re encouraging members to take part in these events over the summer:
National Shop Stewards Network conference
The National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is holding its conference on Saturday 24 June in Conway Hall, London between 11am and 4.30pm. From the NSSN’s bulletin:
The last year has proven that striking works, but the cost of living squeeze on workers is unrelenting. Alongside how to build solidarity with the current strikes, key questions for discussion at the Network conference will therefore include:
• How can we be better prepared for inevitable future strikes?
• It is possible to ‘all strike together’ in a 24-hour general strike?
• How can we fight the threat from the latest Tory undemocratic anti-union ‘minimum service’ legislation?
Hundreds of thousands of workers have been on strike for the first time. Many hundreds if not thousands have become workplace reps or stewards for the first time. Our conference will bring together active rank-and-file trade unionists – both new and longstanding – from across the whole of the trade union movement, including every union that has been involved in strike action. All union members are very welcome to attend and to fully participate in the discussion.
You can register on the day or by emailing info@shopstewards.net. Members of Unite London Digital & Tech who attend can claim their attendance fee and travel expenses from the branch.
Protest in support of sacked Goodlord strikers
11am Tuesday 25 May
Heneage Street, London E1 5LN
Read Unite’s press release in response to our members being fired
