{"id":4000,"date":"2023-03-25T14:57:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T14:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=4000"},"modified":"2023-04-23T17:47:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-23T17:47:51","slug":"scottish-tech-workers-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2023\/03\/25\/scottish-tech-workers-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Tech Workers Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4001\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4001\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/03\/Tech-charter-e1679754916385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4001 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/03\/Tech-charter-e1679754916385-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scottish Tech Workers Charter\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/03\/Tech-charter-e1679754916385-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/03\/Tech-charter-e1679754916385.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scottish Tech Workers Charter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A few years ago i did a talk at ALT-C <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O5V5D6swx24\">#altc about unions:\u00a0 Sessions 18-47, 18-108 &#8211; ALT Annual Conference 2018 &#8211; YouTube<\/a>\u00a0and the relationships between learning technologists, academics and employers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the questions from the audience was about the emergence of new, tech workers unions. This week<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/the-tech-worker-movement-in-scotland-tickets-569647359587\"> I attended an event<\/a> which I thought was about the launch of such a thing in Scotland.\u00a0 It turned out that it wasn&#8217;t so much about that as being about encouraging tech workers to join a union ( in this case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospect.org.uk\">Prospect<\/a>), which is fine.\u00a0 The event was the launch of the Tech Workers Charter, which covers most of the stuff you would expect, and would probably get\/expect from a larger employer.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion was interesting. Several people talking about working in smaller tech organisations feeling that they could not request part-time working. It is interesting to see how interest in working part time is shifting from being something women traditionally want, to something everyone might have.<\/p>\n<p>I also learned a bit about IP restrictions ( your employer could assert a right to the work you do in your spare time) and non-compete clauses which could restrict you from speaking to former colleagues or working in a similar place doing much the same stuff.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think that would work in universities.<\/p>\n<p>The next night I spent a fun evening with old friends from union days. We mused on whether it was better not to be in the same union as your staff. Since I am often at odds with UCU ideologically, I might consider Prospect if they are reaching out to tech workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago i did a talk at ALT-C #altc about unions:\u00a0 Sessions 18-47, 18-108 &#8211; ALT Annual Conference 2018 &#8211; YouTube\u00a0and the relationships between learning technologists, academics and employers. One of the questions from the audience was about the emergence of new, tech workers unions. This week I attended an event which I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-4000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eople-place-work","tag-join-a-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4000\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}