Negotiating the Algorithm - Trade Union Manual
The proliferation of algorithmic management practices risk significant harm to workers' rights and terms & conditions.
This trade manual explains how workers and unions can control and limit algorithmic management to ensure that company algorithms are not used to facilitate exploitation.
The manual answers the following questions:
- What is algorithmic management and what are it's key functions and risks?
- How can trade unions 'negotiate the algorithm'? What role does collective agremeents play?
- What does the EU Platform Work Directive means for platform workers' algorithmic rights? How can platform workers' make best use of this law?
- How can workers recover and analyse information on how they are algorithmic managed? What are the best data tools available to help workers do this?
- How can unions develop their training and infrastructure capacity in data and algorithmic management?
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