NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
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Technology should be used to better serve workers, not to cheat them out of pay
With AI now widespread across TV, film and video games, actors and performers need their rights vigorously defending from fraudulent use of their work, says Equity leader PAUL W FLEMING
Equity leader Paul W Fleming
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, MARYAM ALDOSSARI argues it is time to stop applauding the illusion – and start listening to the women the state works hardest to silence
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
With violence against women and girls reaching unprecedented levels – particularly in the north of England – Unison North West is driving a union-wide push for education, prevention and trauma-informed support, writes JOANNE MOORCROFT
Amid national economic decay and with a lack of coherent left-wing responses, far-right narratives on women’s safety and immigration have taken root in former Labour heartlands. The WOMEN’S LIBERATION ALLIANCE warns that only a renewed politics rooted in an understanding of class, race and sex can stem the rise of authoritarianism
THOSE who oppose new technologies are sometimes accused of being Luddites in a pejorative way — it’s a term thrown at those who simply oppose progress or change.
However, as trade unionists, we should perhaps bear the mantle of Ned Ludd’s movement as it was originally intended by our radical working-class forebears.
The movement’s response to the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI), whether in the creative industries or in the economy and society more broadly, merits the Luddite rallying call not to oppose change or progress but to tackle technology which was used, as they said “in a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to cut jobs, pay and undermine terms and conditions.
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