Activities
The Robot Labor Union Project is currently preparing to form a labor union. Our activities focus on union formation, maintaining and improving working conditions and workers’ economic position, gathering information about workplace issues, and publishing positions on how AI, robotics, and automation are changing work.
Current activity areas
1. Union formation
We are preparing the union rules, membership framework, democratic procedures, accounting arrangements, and formation meeting needed to establish the union.
2. Workplace-issue submissions
Workers may submit information about how AI, robots, or automation are changing workload, staffing, evaluation, safety, training, or responsibility in their workplaces. Before union formation, such contact is treated as information or an expression of interest; it does not create union membership or legal representation.
3. Public statements
We publish concise, action-oriented statements on concrete labor issues rather than treating every question as an academic research project.
4. Public record
Activities, statements, and organizational milestones are dated and recorded so that the project’s activities and organizational status can be followed over time.
After union formation
Subject to the adopted union rules and members’ circumstances, planned activities include member consultation, workplace requests and proposals, dialogue with employers, collective bargaining and other union activities where appropriate, workplace surveys, information and outreach on working conditions, and cooperation with labor organizations, experts, and relevant technical stakeholders.
Activity log
August 1, 2026 — Robot Labor Union Project launched in Japan.
August 18, 2026 — Founding Statement and Initial Labor Program published; preparations for union formation and the current public activity framework announced.