TUC warns that Britain is ‘losing race against time’ to regulate AI in the workplace.

Trades Union Congress launched its new AI Employment Bill on Thursday. An important initiative, the UK risks becoming an “international outlier” if it doesn’t act:

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📢Join the Student and Staff Solidarity Meeting. We can fight cuts together! 📢 Goldsmiths SU

📢 Rally tomorrow:
Calling all members & students: come and support your colleagues & lecturers.
We face devastating redudancies & cuts that will impact our teaching & working conditions.

Joint Union Rally with Unison
Weds 24th April, 12-1.30pm,
Hallam Square.

The arts and humanities are a demonstration that we have the freedom to hold and share thoughts and ideas. This is democracy. Slashing its provision at HE level should have the nation up in arms!

Incredibly sad as we face 6 more redundancies in History at UoLincoln on top of the loss of 3 valued colleagues (via voluntary severance). We've always punched above our weight in terms of research + teaching and this is such a sad comment on all of that work and UK HE overall.

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The government is proposing to make it harder to get a sick/fit note in their cruel crack down on sickness and disability benefits.

The consultation is open to patients, medical professionals, carers and employers. Closes 8th July

gov.uk/government/cal…

So normally decided by managers who have offices #irony

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Huw Edwards has resigned

‘Huw Edwards has today resigned & left the BBC. After 40 years of service, Huw has explained that his decision was made on the basis of medical advice from his doctors. The BBC has accepted his resignation which it believes will allow all parties to move

BREAKING 🚨 | Managers in Britain's workplaces overwhelmingly support Labour’s New Deal policies, new polling from the CMI reveals.

- 82% said granting workers fundamental day one rights was important.
- 74% said a ban on zero-hours contracts was important.
- 74% said the

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NEW: Four in five managers believe workers' rights should be a top priority for national government policies – polling shared exclusively with LabourList and i newspaper reveals – with strong support for key elements of Labour's New Deal for Working People: labourlist.org/2024/04/labour…

In a defiant response to management's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies, over 150 staff attended an emergency Lincoln UCU branch meeting and voiced their opposition to the proposals. #ucu #nocompulsoryredundancies ucu.org.uk/article/13542/…

Any donation to Goldsmiths UCU to help support colleagues in their would be gratefully received. Arts and humanities courses and staff are under threat.

'She [Lady Ingrid Simler] said: “If employees can only take strike action by exposing themselves to detrimental treatment, the right dissolves.”'

i.e., on the punitive deductions (113 days of pay for 15 exam scripts...):

'The looming threat targets over 220 employees, including one in ten academic staff. Cuts include the phasing out of fashion and ending specialist support for widening participation students in the foundation studies centre.' #ucu #nocompulsoryredundancies ucu.org.uk/article/13542/…

BREAKING 🚨 | Amazon workers in Coventry will be the first in the UK to ballot for union recognition.

History has been made - recognition will force Amazon round the table for better working conditions, pay and more.

A fantastic achievement by GMB Union.

This is just the

BREAKING 🚨 | Bosses will no longer able to punish striking workers, thanks to UNISON's Supreme Court win.

This is another crushing defeat for the government in court over its oppressive strike laws.

Monumental victory for UNISON - and the whole union movement!

#mercercase tells the government and employers that employees cannot be victimised and intimidated for taking lawful industrial action as they will be breaking international and UK law.