Date: April 30, 2026.

Time: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

Location: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Mandeville T3-31

Join us for a one-day, interdisciplinary workshop on the challenges and possibilities that digitalisation presents for workers and organized labour.  The workshop will bring together perspectives from philosophy, economics, legal theory, and sociology, as well as expert insight from the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO).

The event is organized by Gergana Boncheva (Erasmus School of Philosophy) and supported by the SSH-Breed Sector Plan on The Digital Society.

10.00 – 10.15 Welcome

10.15 – 11.15 Juri Viehoff,Associate Professor of Philosophy (Utrecht University)

“Worker’s Solidarity in the Age of AI”

11.30 – 12.30 Sabrina Genz, Assistant Professor of Labour Economics (Utrecht University)

“Automation and Collective Agreements”

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch break

13.30 – 14.30 Joe Atkinson, Associate Professor of Employment Law and Co-Director of the Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law (University of Southampton)

“Managerial Authority in the Age of AI and a Right to Justification at Work “

14.45 – 15.45 Nana Wesley Hansen, Associate Professor of Sociology and Vice Director of the Employment Relations Research Centre (FAOS) (University of Copenhagen)

“Union Digitalization, Democracy, and Collective Bargaining Strength”

16.00 – 17.00 Ronald Dekker,Senior Scientist Integrator (The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO))

TBA

Registration is required to attend. To register, please contact: boncheva [at] esphil [dot] eur [dot] nl