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THE FUTURE OF WORK

Shaping a future with workers at its heart.

Technology has the power to transform how we transport goods and move people around the globe. It can enhance workers' jobs, increase people’s quality of life and enable better decision making. But without adequate regulation and oversight, technology can become a tool of surveillance, violate fundamental rights and discriminate against both the workers and users of transport systems.

 

Rather than being used to reorganise work, displace workers and erode workers’ rights, technology can improve productivity, safety and help tackle critical societal issues like decarbonisation.

Our position

Transport unions play a critical role in the future of work. Workers must be at the centre of decision making, shaping the future of transport, by ensuring that labour standards and regulation keep pace with emerging technology and new ways of working. Workers’ and users’ human rights to privacy and freedom of association must be protected so that technology does not further entrench the forms of exploitation and discrimination that exist in the world today.

At the ITF, we believe that workers play a critical role in developing and deploying technological change. They must have a seat at the table to ensure that technology advances decent work and upholds human rights. This can only be achieved through collective bargaining and effective regulation of new ways of working like the gig economy.

KEY ISSUES

  • RAISING STANDARDS IN THE FUTURE OF WORK

  • CONTROLLING OUR DATA

  • ORGANISING THE GIG ECONOMY

  • TRAINING FOR TOMORROW

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WILL WE SEE NEW TECHNOLOGY AS A CHALLENGE OR OPPORTUNITY?
WINNING FORMAL PROTECTIONS FOR INFORMAL WORKERS

We're working to reverse the race to the bottom and raise standards for a new world of work.

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81% of people want their government to invest in job creation for the transport sector.
WHO OWNS YOUR DATA?

We're making sure digitisation improves the lives of workers, and not just the bottom line of employers. We own our data, and our future.

81% of people want their government to invest in job creation for the transport sector.
OWNING OUR DATA AND OUR FUTURE

We're making sure digitisation improves the lives of workers, and not just the bottom line of employers.

87% OF WORKERS WANT BETTER DATA PRIVACY CONTROLS.
ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY AND AUTOMATION… FOR WORKERS

Together we're facing enormous changes in the workplace due to rapidly developing technologies that have the potential to transform the way that work is performed, overseen and organised. We're taking a stand to ensure technology benefits workers.

2 in 3 people believe the transport industry would be better off with greater involvement of transport workers in decision making.
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