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<p>Dear All,</p>
<p>This is to welcome you to the Working Group on Labor and
Digitalisation, which is being jointly coordinated by ITUC and IT
for Change!</p>
<p>The participants in this group are all people involved with the
labor movement, and who have shown interest in the impact of
digitalisation on labor. The current list of participants is
provided at the end of this email.</p>
<p>The purpose of this collective exercise is to <br>
</p>
<p>(1) help understand the issues involved, especially in a holistic
and forward looking manner, and, thereby <br>
</p>
<p>(2) to develop some common principles on how digitalisation
should take place in a workers friendly manner (and where it
should not take place). <br>
</p>
<p>This will also help arrive at some general directions and
possibilities for engagement by the labor movement with various
developments and the institutions concerned.</p>
<p>We plan to go about it by first developing a landscaping paper,
which is already underway, laying out the key areas and issues --
current and emergent -- that require our attention.</p>
<p>This group is invited to provide its input into the landscaping
exercise. <br>
</p>
<p>We will then keep discussing the issues on this elist and over
occasional zoom meetings.</p>
<p>This collective exercise is expected to finally lead to an
outcome document containing some general norms and principles that
we can agree are required to inform digitalisation from a workers'
point of view. Additionally, some directions and possibilities of
common and individual advocacies can also be identified. <br>
</p>
<p>We do understand that this is a very ambitious effort, though
hardly anyone will deny that it is an extremely important, and
urgently needed, one too. The attempt here is to lay the seeds of
collaborative work in this area, and see what we can get to in a
period of around six months in the first instance. </p>
<p>Lara Merling from ITUC has spoken about this project with almost
all of you. She will be coordinating the project from ITUC's side.
I am the contact person from IT for Change. <br>
</p>
<p>Looking forward, and best regards,</p>
<p>Parminder</p>
<p>IT for Change</p>
<p>List of current participants</p>
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<p><b>Name</b></p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p><b>Organization</b></p>
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<p><br>
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<p><br>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Lara Merling</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Leo Baunach</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)</p>
</td>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Georgios Altintzis </p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)</p>
</td>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Anna Byhoskaya</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>Trade Union Advisory Commitee (TUAC)</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Khamati Mugalla</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>East Africa Trade Union Confederation (EATUC)</p>
</td>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Kate Lappin</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>Public Services International (PSI)</p>
</td>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Daniel Bertossa </p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>Public Services International (PSI)</p>
</td>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Victor Figueroa</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Christina Cochlough</p>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>The Why Not Lab</p>
</td>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Martin Henry</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>Education International (EI)</p>
</td>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Sofia Scarssera</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>Transnational Institute (TNI)</p>
</td>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Jai Vipra</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>All India IT & ITeS Employees' Union (AIITEU)</p>
</td>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Spandan Pratyush</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>All India IT & ITeS Employees' Union (AIITEU)</p>
</td>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Parminder Jeet Singh</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>IT for Change</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Anita Gurumurthy</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>IT for Change</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Nandini Chami</p>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>IT for Change</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Deepti Bhartur</p>
</td>
<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>IT for Change</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="198">
<p>Abbas</p>
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<td style="border: none; padding: 0cm" width="445">
<p>IT for Change</p>
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