Received from: Community
Merged into composite C11
Congress acknowledges the transformative impact of AI in the workplace, and the opportunities that it presents for innovation and efficiency in the finance sector. However, as AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives, we must harness it’s benefits whilst ensuring responsible use and safeguarding the interests of the workforce.
Congress recognises the importance of preparing workers for the challenges and opportunities AI presents. Accessible training and retraining programmes delivered during working hours, as well as maintaining transparency around the use of AI in work, are vital to ensure employees can adapt to technological change, without fear of AI undercutting jobs.
Congress believes that AI should enhance work – not replace it. We must ensure that AI is used to free up staff time, increase productivity and maintain high-quality employment, rather than undermine job security.
Congress, therefore, calls on the TUC to:
i. work with employers to ensure that AI does not limit entryways for young people into the sector, and that apprenticeships incorporate AI to prepare workers for the future
ii. encourage employers to offer retraining opportunities on AI and new technologies, to ensure that workers can fully engage with the changing modern workplace
iii. call for companies to adopt responsible AI policies, ensuring that new technologies are not used for undue surveillance activity or to impinge upon workplace protections
iv. lobby the government to work in partnership with unions and employers to develop frameworks for responsible AI use, ensuring workers’ voices are heard and their rights safeguarded.
Community
AMENDMENT
At the end of the first sentence in the first paragraph, delete the word “the” in between “in” and “finance”.
At the end of the first sentence in the first paragraph, after the word “finance” delete “sector” and replace with “and other sectors”.
In bullet i., delete “the sector” and replace with “employment”.
Insert new bullet after bullet iii.:
“iv. lobby the government to ensure that employers are required to undertake, and act upon the findings of, equality impact assessments before implementing AI”
Renumber subsequent bullet as bullet v. and insert new final sentence:
“This must include strong protections against the use of algorithmic management decisions throughout recruitment and employment processes.”
Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers