[Labor-digital-wg] Welcome to the Working Group on Labor and Digitalisation

[parminder]

Dear All,

This is to welcome you to the Working Group on Labor and Digitalisation,
which is being jointly coordinated by ITUC and IT for Change!

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.

The purpose of this collective exercise is to

(1) help understand the issues involved, especially in a holistic and
forward looking manner, and, thereby

(2) to develop some common principles on how digitalisation should take
place in a workers friendly manner (and where it should not take place).

This will also help arrive at some general directions and possibilities
for engagement by the labor movement with various developments and the
institutions concerned.

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.

This group is invited to provide its input into the landscaping exercise.

We will then keep discussing the issues on this elist and over
occasional zoom meetings.

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.

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. 

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.

Looking forward, and best regards,

Parminder

IT for Change

List of current participants

*Name*

	

*Organization*


	


Lara Merling

	

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Leo Baunach

	

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Georgios Altintzis

	

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)

Anna Byhoskaya

	

Trade Union Advisory Commitee (TUAC)

Khamati Mugalla

	

East Africa Trade Union Confederation (EATUC)

Kate Lappin

	

Public Services International (PSI)

Daniel Bertossa

	

Public Services International (PSI)

Victor Figueroa

	

International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)

Christina Cochlough

	

The Why Not Lab

Martin Henry

	

Education International (EI)

Sofia Scarssera

	

Transnational Institute (TNI)

Jai Vipra

	

All India IT & ITeS Employees' Union (AIITEU)

Spandan Pratyush

	

All India IT & ITeS Employees' Union (AIITEU)

Parminder Jeet Singh

	

IT for Change

Anita Gurumurthy

	

IT for Change

Nandini Chami

	

IT for Change

Deepti Bhartur

	

IT for Change

Abbas

	

IT for Change

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