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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we work and, alongside boosting productivity, offers an opportunity to improve working lives. The TUC believes we are now at a crucial moment in the AI-driven technological workplace revolution.

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Lessons from education unions building power on AI
In partnership with nine unions, Connected by Data and the TUC worked across 7 months on an ‘action learning’ programme to test how to catalyse the movement’s capacity to understand, negotiate and advocate on AI from worker’s perspectives.
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Building a pro-worker AI innovation strategy
A pro-worker AI innovation strategy for the UK should use every lever to shape technology towards good jobs, resilient public services and to drive socially useful innovation – for now and the future, at home and abroad.
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Artificial Intelligence (Regulation and Employment Rights) Bill
This paper sets out the background to the TUC Artificial Intelligence (Employment and Regulation) Bill, the multi-stakeholder process behind the drafting, why the Bill is needed, and how it could improve the rights of working people.  
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AI guides for union officers and reps
Guides for union officers and reps
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AI reports
These reports are part of the TUC project on AI and the employment relationship.
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The AI Bill Project
The TUC has been conducting a four-year project on the use of AI in the employment relationship, assisted by a trade union working group (The TUC AI Working Group).
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Building educator power to shape AI
Ten unions are working together to ensure AI and EdTech is shaped by millions of support staff, teachers, leaders and specialists in a project by the TUC and Connected by Data.
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There is a major policy opening for worker power on technology right now
Trade unions must take this opportunity for collective rights on algorithmic management, paving the way for worker voice on all tech at work.
Adam Cantwell-Corn - 05 Oct 2026
Make Work Pay: workplace monitoring technologies
The TUC’s response to the consultation from the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade.
Isabella Rhodes - 02 Oct 2026
Empowering people through data intermediaries
Our core mission is to protect and advance the interests of working people. How workers’ personal data is captured, analysed, and used in the workplace – as well as how workers and their unions can access and benefit from that data – is a key concern for the TUC. It is crucial that workers have rights to access their own data, are protected from employer misuse of data and are informed about these rights.
Adam Cantwell-Corn - 16 Sep 2026
Artificial intelligence, business and the future of the workforce
TUC response to the Business and Trade Committee call for evidence. The TUC has both the representational mandate and the practical expertise – drawn from our member unions operating across diverse industries – to speak to the real-world impacts these technologies are having on workers.
22 Jul 2026
Workers actually have significant leverage on AI right now
In talk of the ‘AI transformation’ workers are often cast as the subjects or even victims of change. They are to be trained, maybe protected or perhaps just discarded. It is true that workers face instability. But two dynamics are playing out in a way that is giving workers, representatives and allies significant leverage right now.
Adam Cantwell-Corn - 14 Jul 2026
Lessons from education unions building power on AI
In partnership with nine unions, Connected by Data and the TUC worked across 7 months on an ‘action learning’ programme to test how to catalyse the movement’s capacity to understand, negotiate and advocate on AI from worker’s perspectives.
13 Jul 2026
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