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PEOPLE need better protection from the increasing automation of work, delegates at Labour’s annual conference demanded yesterday.
Members gathered in Liverpool backed by a show of hands a motion from retail union Usdaw to ensure that people are “supported at the heart of technology changes at work.”
Bosses should be required to consult staff on the introduction of new tech, said the motion, which also urged “significant and long-term investment in skills funding, the legal right to paid time off for any retraining required and the strengthening of collective rights.”
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PAUL W FLEMING is unequivocal that Labour’s unpreparedness and resulting ambiguity on copyright in the creative industries has to be reined in with policies that will reverse the growing abuse by Big Tech AI
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street