Demystifying AI and Empowering Workers

What is AI, and why does it matter to workers? Employers are rapidly adopting new digital technologies that have significant impacts on workers – from work speed-up and deskilling to automation, discrimination, and hiring, firing, and management by algorithms. Employers are also using digital technologies to surveil and profile workers and prevent them from organizing unions. But technology and its impacts are not inevitable. How can we make sure that technology works for workers?

Join us for a three-part webinar series that will cut through the AI hype to help better understand digital technologies in the workplace and how to respond through collective bargaining and public policy.

Part 1: Demystifying AI and Other Digital Technologies
Wednesday, May 7, 10am–11am PT
This webinar with the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Technology and Work Program, Tech Equity, and the Warehouse Workers Resource Center lays the groundwork for understanding digital technologies in the workplace and why they matter.

Part 2: Public Policy and Digital Technologies
Wednesday, May 28, 10am–11am PT
In this webinar, we will be joined by the California Federation of Labor Unions and members of the California Teachers Association to analyze the rapidly changing public policy landscape around technology and labor. It provides a framework for understanding key policy concepts and highlights important legislation and bills in California and across the country.

Part 3: Collective Bargaining and Digital Technologies
Wednesday, June 18, 10am–11am PT
This webinar with the Communication Workers of America and NewsGuild of New York explores how unions are addressing workplace technologies at the bargaining table. It features findings from the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s new research on technology agreements, highlights union experiences from the field, and provides concrete examples of bargaining strategies and contract provisions.