How portability of reputation data benefits platforms and users

Platforms and labor unions don’t usually form a great marriage, but the tides are turning slowly. The first labor unions have formed collective agreements with platforms. Parties from both sides are starting to cooperatively experiment how to improve the wellbeing of workers, for example, in how platform specific technologies can be used. A labor union that leads the way is the Swedish Unionen, Sweden’s largest labor union. Unionen has already reached some collective agreements with platforms and has ongoing research in eventually hardcoding collective agreements in platform algorithms. I met Victor Bernhardtz, Ombudsman for Digital Labour Markets at Unionen, in Stockholm to talk about the Swedish context of labor unions and their platform strategy.

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