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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It has been a while since we have talked about this project but excited to get the ball rolling. Since we are only starting now, the new timeline for this will be until May 2022.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am currently looking to make a few additions to the group and am reaching out to a few more people. Please also let me know if you now have any ideas and suggestions for other people who might want to join and could share some of their
insights. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Next week we will share with you a doodle link to set a time from an introductory meeting with those of you who can make it. I will also soon share the initial scoping paper that can serve as a starting point on understanding the issues
involved – and where we will benefit from all the different perspectives to see what we missed, or are interpreting in a different way.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Looking forward to working on this, and seeing what comes out of this exercise.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for taking the time to participate in this project,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lara <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Lara Merling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Policy Advisor, Economic & Social Policy Department </i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">International Trade Union Confederation <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="color:#DCA10D"><a href="https://www.ituc-csi.org/"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.ituc-csi.org</span></a></span></u><span style="color:black"> </span><span style="color:#DCA10D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Labor-digital-wg <labor-digital-wg-bounces@justnetcoalition.org> on behalf of parminder <parminder@itforchange.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, October 8, 2021 at 9:09 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>"labor-digital-wg@justnetcoalition.org" <labor-digital-wg@justnetcoalition.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Labor-digital-wg] Welcome to the Working Group on Labor and Digitalisation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></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!<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>The purpose of this collective exercise is to <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>(1) help understand the issues involved, especially in a holistic and forward looking manner, and, thereby
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<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).
<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>This group is invited to provide its input into the landscaping exercise. <o:p>
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<p>We will then keep discussing the issues on this elist and over occasional zoom meetings.<o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></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. <o:p></o:p></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.
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<p>Looking forward, and best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Parminder<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>IT for Change<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>List of current participants<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b>Name</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b>Organization</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Lara Merling<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Leo Baunach<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Georgios Altintzis <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Anna Byhoskaya<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Trade Union Advisory Commitee (TUAC)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Khamati Mugalla<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>East Africa Trade Union Confederation (EATUC)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Kate Lappin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Public Services International (PSI)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Daniel Bertossa <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Public Services International (PSI)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Victor Figueroa<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Christina Cochlough<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>The Why Not Lab<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Martin Henry<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Education International (EI)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Sofia Scarssera<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Transnational Institute (TNI)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Jai Vipra<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>All India IT & ITeS Employees' Union (AIITEU)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Spandan Pratyush<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>All India IT & ITeS Employees' Union (AIITEU)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Parminder Jeet Singh<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>IT for Change<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Anita Gurumurthy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>IT for Change<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Nandini Chami<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>IT for Change<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Deepti Bhartur<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>IT for Change<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Abbas<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>IT for Change<o:p></o:p></p>
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