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AFL-CIO Unveils First-Ever Policy Agenda on Digital Economy and Trade

… As the Biden administration continues to remake U.S. trade policy through the lens of producing good-paying jobs and empowering working people across America, the … “Corporations shouldn’t dictate the rules of the global digital economy with no regard for working people. Their drive to monetize data frequently violates crucial privacy rights and exploits workers. The power of technology can be harnessed to … ensure that digital technologies do not undermine workplace safety, exacerbate employment discrimination, or undermine the right to form unions.”  Click here to read the full paper. Contact: Danielle Noel, 202-637-5018 …
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler: Executive Order Lays Foundation for Substantive Worker Engagement on AI

… executive order on artificial intelligence: Today, the Biden–Harris administration reaffirmed its commitment to America’s workers through a pioneering executive order on artificial intelligence (AI). The AFL-CIO applauds the centrality of workers’ rights and values within this order—including the right to collectively bargain—while acknowledging there is much ground to cover in enshrining accountability, transparency and …
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Shuler's Speech at the AFL-CIO and Microsoft's New Tech-Labor Partnership Event

… AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler delivered the following remarks as prepared at the event: Welcome to the House of Labor! I think many of you here in the audience are aware that today we’re going to host what is hopefully a great and enlightening dialogue, between the AFL-CIO and Microsoft to talk about A.I., its impacts, and the future of work.  We’ll get to that in just a few minutes and I want to thank Jackie Padilla of Politico for moderating today. But what … us here. Brad and I have talked for a long time about this moment in American history.  When you look around this country right now, you see a lot of destabilizing forces. A lot of distrust of institutions. People and workers in particular who are …
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler on Senate AI Forum: Recognize Workers for the Experts We Are

… Institute’s participation in the Senate’s second AI Insight Forum on innovation today: Innovation and guardrails to protect workers go hand in hand. Nationwide, on the picket lines and at the bargaining table, working people are fighting back against artificial intelligence and other technology used to eliminate workers or undermine and exploit us. This misuse of AI, left unchecked, will harm millions of people in profound ways. If we fail to involve workers and unions across the entire innovation process, AI will curtail our rights, threaten good jobs and …
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Redmond on CEO Pay: Remarks During the Executive Paywatch Press Conference Call

… Thank you all for joining us for the launch of this year’s AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch website. And a big thank you to Brandon Rees, the AFL-CIO’s Deputy Director of Corporations and Capital Markets, for his work on this important project. This year we are highlighting the role of Artificial Intelligence in transforming our economy … to give entertainment industry workers a voice in how AI will be used. The choice about how we use AI is before us right now. Will AI be used to enrich corporate CEOs and tech billionaires? Or will the productivity gains of AI be shared …
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Shuler to LIUNA: We Are Rebuilding North America

… at the LIUNA 120th Anniversary Convention in Las Vegas: Thank you, Brian [Donohue]. Good morning, everyone! Bonjour to our Canadian members out there.  It’s great to see everybody bright and early today. What an honor to celebrate LIUNA’s … the wins you and our movement have racked up. I always know that you were smart, but you and Armand got the timing exactly right—you’re moving on at the pinnacle of your careers. You’ve set the union up for many more decades of growth and success … As I said upfront …change is all around us…and not just the change here at LIUNA. Technology is changing the way we work at lightning speed. And our labor movement needs to change with it. One quick story: Just a few months ago we were out …
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Redmond: Technological Achievement Should Not Impoverish Society

… at the Consumer Electronics Show. Thank you Ben [Whitehair] and good afternoon everyone. Thank you for joining us. I want to thank SAG-AFTRA, AFT, UNITE HERE and our Tech Institute for joining with the AFL-CIO to organize this summit. It gives us … universities and researchers at innovation labs – a few who are with us today – to get a clearer picture of the future of work and embed a worker voice in that important work. We’ve adapted and we will continue to adapt. We have to – that’s our … swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as [sisters and] brothers.” Dr. King was right. We can’t truly celebrate our achievements if those innovations divide us and deepen inequality. Our abundance of …