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Republicans should support this too right? But I can also see them siding with business on this one. Gotta keep the proletariat in line.
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Workplace surveillance has been a growing area of concern for Democrats in the past few years, as the shift to remote work during the pandemic has prompted increased use of employee monitoring technologies. Since the onset of the pandemic, the percentage of large companies that digitally monitor their workers has doubled, to more than 60 percent. At a time when managers can no longer keep an eye on workers in the office, they’ve increasingly relied on technologies such as keylogger software, geolocation tools that track workers’ physical movements, and even software that monitors worker attentiveness with webcams, using biometric data to scrutinize minute body movements and facial expressions. 
Currently, federal law gives workers few protections from these kinds of surveillance practices. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 does have some safeguards against workplace monitoring, but it has wide-ranging exceptions that allow employers to keep tabs on virtually all communications for “legitimate business purposes.” Currently, no federal law requires employers to disclose that they are monitoring workers, though individual states are increasingly taking steps to protect workers’ rights. In May 2022, for example, New York passed a law requiring private companies to publicly disclose whether employees will be electronically monitored, following similar legislation in Delaware and Connecticut. In California, a bill introduced last year would eliminate tools like facial recognition and emotion recognition technologies from the workplace. 

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n the memo, Abruzzo also acknowledged “abusive electronic monitoring” could interfere with employees’ right to organize a union or engage in other protected labor activities. As I’ve written before, unions around the country are currently in the middle of negotiating how data collected on workers can be used by employers. At companies like Amazon, unionization efforts are being driven partly by a culture of relentless workplace surveillance—and in some cases employers are responding to unionization efforts by doubling down on digital monitoring. Whole Foods, which is owned by Amazon, used heat maps to identify its stores at risk of unionization, according to Insider. 

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This seems like a CORE issue that republicans would want to align with democrats on……let’s see, shall we? 
On the other hand there was a minor kerfuffle over some guys laptop dong shots that they invaded, sooooooooo……. >

When was the last time the Republicans sided with the worker over the employer? >

I’d be genuinely interested in hearing others thoughts on that. 
I can’t think of anything recently. Maybe the few that signed onto the infrastructure bill?  I know many right wing workers that are only temporarily not multi millionaires seemed to think the tax cut bill was for them? >

Didn't republicans support anti-vaxxers who tried to use religious belief to get around the workplace rules? (which was obviously not a good thing).