TRADE UNION ORGANISATION AND ACTION FACED WITH THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION

Abstract

Technological advances and their application to production processes and business models have also had an impact on the formulas for the organisation and defence of workers’ interests. Trade unions will have to face the challenge of change, without forgetting that more traditional problems, such as unemployment, job insecurity and inequality, still exist and have even increased. To do this, they will have to bring new contents, such as the right to digital disconnection and data protection, to collective bargaining, but also design strategies to face the boom in freelance work, the increasing dilution, fragmentation, and dispersion of work brought about by digital platforms, the lack of strong professional identities, and the bipolarity of the workforce. The use of technology by trade unions to create workers’ networks and forms of collective action supported and boosted by social networks can reconstruct links and spaces for solidarity which technology itself has contributed to blur