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2 points·cmsefton··4 comments

Fascinating, thanks for sharing. Hilarious to see a capitalist report on “advancing worker voices” and “ensuring worker equality” without a hint of awareness. Gee, I wonder what mechanisms might be useful for this…

I came across them while reading Feeding The Machine: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/publications/feeding-the-m...

Very insightful book so far.

They seem very aware of issues around AI, I'm wondering why you think otherwise?

Seems interesting! But I’m referencing the complete lack of mention (Afaict) of unions, syndicates, and socialism more broadly. Capitalism is diametrically opposed to workers rights, by definition — the most rights you can hope for are the ones that you can win in the free market. Which, ya know, if that was enough why would we need an NGO think tank?

It just seems like empty talk, in other words. Giving workers more of a voice is 100% meaningless unless that voice is literal direct power over the decisions taken by their firm. Not, like, pizza party listening sessions once a quarter.

Hopefully I’m just missing it! I mostly only looked at their 10 principles.

Ah right, I understand. Thanks for clarifying.

I skipped ahead in the book to chapter 8 entitled "Rewiring the Machine", which delves into what to do, and the first point is "Worker Power", with unions specifically mentioned.

They also mention it here (amongst other things) in this paper which may address some of your points: https://fair.work/en/fw/publications/ai-for-fair-work-from-p...

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