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Promoting human-centred AI in the workplace. Trade unions and their strategies for regulating the use of AI in Germany
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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world of work. For trade unions, the issue of how to regulate the use of AI is a central but difficult topic because the technology is still at an early stage and experience on its use limited. Focusing on Germany, this article addresses the following questions: (1) what areas of application and use cases for AI are relevant for trade unions and works councils?, (2) what role do trade union positions and demands play in the political discussion on regulating the use of AI?, (3) what strategies are trade unions using to influence the regulation and use of AI in the workplace?, and (4) what experiences are they gaining during this process? Reviewing trade union strategies, this article shows which concepts of human-centred AI the trade unions are trying to promote, how they try to ensure that works councils and trade unionists get appropriate training to understand the new technologies, and how dealing with AI is changing the way works councils work. The article also shows how the characteristics of the German system of industrial relations influence discussions on AI and the processes of implementing it in the workplace.
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“In addition, the works council has the right to review new technologies with regard to the resulting physical and mental stress as well as risks for employee data protection (Krzywdzinski, Gerst, et al., 2022;Krzywdzinski, Pfeiffer, et al., 2022).”
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“German law makes the introduction of technical systems that can be used to monitor performance subject to approval by the company works council.”
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- Authors
- Krzywdzinski, M., Gerst, D., & Butollo, F.
- Affiliations
- WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Germany
- IG Metall, Frankfurt, Germany
- Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Germany
- Venue
- Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2022-12-23
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 53-70
- ISSN
- 1024-2589
- 1996-7284
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 4
- Language
- en
- Funders
- bundesministerium für bildung und forschung (16DII121)
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