GDPoweR Conference – Workers’ Data, Collective Bargaining, and the Platform Economy
June 12 2025
The international closing conference of the GDPoweR project – “Recovering Workers’ Data to Negotiate and Monitor Collective Agreements in the Platform Economy” – will take place on 11 September 2025 at the Zielna Conference Centre in Warsaw.
The event will bring together researchers, trade unionists, activists, and policymakers working on platform labour, algorithmic management, and workers’ data rights.
This conference offers an opportunity to present the results of a three-year project conducted in five EU countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Poland, Spain), aimed at strengthening social dialogue and collective bargaining in the platform economy. A key focus of the project was exploring how GDPR rights can be used by workers to retrieve their personal data and analyse it for collective bargaining and oversight purposes.
Key topics of the conference include:
- Algorithmic management and its impact on workers’ rights
- Trade union and worker collective strategies in the digital labour market
- The use of personal data as a tool for collective bargaining
- Comparative perspectives on collective agreements in the platform economy across Europe
The keynote address will be delivered by Becky Wright, Executive Director of Unions 21 and an expert on organising workers in atypical forms of employment.
The event will be held in person and participation is free of charge.
Organisers:
Institute for Structural Research (IBS) in cooperation with international partners:
- HIVA – Research Institute for Work and Society, KU Leuven (Belgium)
- ACV-Innovatief (Belgium)
- ThEMA (Théorie Économique, Modélisation et Applications), CY Cergy Paris (France)
- UCLM – University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)
- Fundación 1 de Mayo (Spain)
🔗 Registration link
🗓 Programme will be published in August
📧 Contact: zuzanna.kowalik@ibs.org.pl
