Notes on the GMB & AI.

After removing repeated or near-identical demands, the document can be reduced to the following consolidated list of policy demands:

Workers’ Rights and Collective Bargaining

1. Strengthen union recognition, access rights, and collective bargaining.
2. Lower recognition thresholds and secure facility time for union representatives.
3. Fully implement Labour’s “Make Work Pay” commitments.
4. Expand collective bargaining over AI and workplace technology.

AI Regulation and Worker Protection

5. Introduce a statutory right to consultation before tasks are transferred to automation.
6. Require prior union agreement before deploying new workplace technologies.
7. Guarantee paid retraining, redeployment, or job protection where technology threatens jobs.
8. Regulate AI to ensure it supports jobs rather than replaces workers.
9. Introduce stricter regulation of AI in public services to prevent staff replacement.
10. Establish AI liability frameworks for harms or incidents.
11. Ensure transparency in AI systems and protect workers from AI bias and data misuse.
12. Strengthen legislation governing worker data rights and AI-driven decision-making.
13. Require ethical, environmental, and social regulation of AI, including sustainable infrastructure standards.
14. Promote public ownership or democratic control of strategically important AI systems.

Transition Support

15. Create a “Just Transition Fund” for workers displaced by automation or autonomous vehicles, funded through industry levies.
16. Establish sectoral job plans to identify future skills needs and create career pathways.

Skills and Training

17. Create a statutory right to paid time off for training when jobs are threatened by technological or net-zero transitions.
18. Establish a Skills Fund financed by government and employers.
19. Reform skills policy through tripartite cooperation between unions, employers, and government.
20. Address skill shortages through a sectoral and devolved skills strategy with adequate public funding.

Apprenticeships and Industrial Strategy

21. Create a UK-wide apprenticeship clearing house with a single application process.
22. Reindustrialise apprenticeships with more practical, workplace-based training.
23. Increase government and employer investment in apprenticeships and vocational training.
24. Ensure qualifications are transferable across employers and sectors.

Employment Security

25. Reform procurement rules so publicly funded employers prioritise job retention or redeployment before layoffs.

Duplications

This removes the major duplications, especially where the document repeats:

• the right to consultation on AI,
• union agreement before technology deployment,
• the Just Transition Fund,
• sectoral job plans,
• paid training rights,
• the apprenticeship clearing house,
• reindustrialised apprenticeships,
• job retention/redeployment protections,
• stricter public-sector AI regulation, and
• AI transparency and bias protections.