The union representing civil servants was sent to EU officials on Monday to call on the committee to make Europe more sovereign with the cloud and AI in a letter seen by Euractiv.
The European Federation of Public Services Unions (EPSU) handled a letter to Employment Commissioner Roxana Minzatz and High-tech Commissioner Henna Wilkunen, highlighting concerns about the committee's future AI strategy. A competitive-focused plan to support AI uptake is expected to be presented early next month.
In the letter, Epsu lined up with the recent calls, making Europe the sovereign of technology. However, unlike initiatives like EuroStack, which focus on EU companies competing to compete with US rivals, civil servants are pushing committees to promote “worker-owned cloud services.”
“As former ECB President Draghi said in his recent speech, we cannot rely on the market for certain important areas,” wrote Epsu President Jan Willem Gudria.
But Goudriaan also opposed the economist and former Italian prime minister turning the European productivity of Prophet Mario Draghi, a recent suspension of parts of the EU's AI law. He argued that fully implementing the law should be a “part and a segment” of future strategies.
The applied AI strategy is scheduled to be adopted by the university on October 7th. In addition, measures will be developed to enhance AI incorporation across the BLOC. This is expected to include the first details of how the committee will “simplify” EU regulations to accelerate AI.
Union leaders hope that it will come with an EU strategy with the proposal of a new law that gives workers more say in how workplaces are digital. Goudriaan's reasoning is that if workers are not involved in implementing technologies such as AI, they don't trust them.
Workers and their unions should be able to negotiate digitalization strategies in collective agreements in accordance with the letter.
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