[lucozade]

There are perfectly good reasons for having unions in finance. This is definitely not one of them.

The heavy monitoring of communications, access etc is mandated by regulators primarily for the protection of customers. There's zero chance a union, or any other body below government, will get them to change that. I doubt they'd even try and nor should they.

[c0m]

Monitoring of workplace comms is fine and legal, ditto for access logs; (taking this post at face value) monitoring of facial expressions, undisclosed webcam and microphone monitoring at home, abusing access to workers’ personal phones, and feeding all this in to a black box for a score that your manager basically pinky swears to not use as part of your review is not okay.

[lucozade]

I agree. I wasn't responding to the original post, I was responding to a comment about monitoring.

I also don't believe for a second that JPM are doing what the original post is saying they're doing in regard to private devices. It would be astonishingly expensive and illegal in some jurisdictions. And thousands of people would need to know, in detail, for it to be useful so wouldn't just have come out in a subreddit. It would be widely known in the industry (and it isn't).

[datavirtue]

Unions can do whatever they want. The rules are different. Sort of how the FBI meets with leaders of a terrorist militia to negotiate because they are afraid of a shootout (it's called "power"). An individual would just be arrested.

Any union of citizens will have power.

[pydry]

The point would be to stop them peeking for other reasons.