Global Workers' Digital Academy: Promoting Decent Work in Digital Labour Platforms (2022 edition)

Promoting decent in digital labour platforms is an important agenda for the ILO and social partners. There is wide recognition of the urgent need for intervention at the global and local levels to “harness the fullest potential of technology to achieve decent work and sustainable development” and to ensure that the opportunities in digital labour platforms are fully realized in an environment that workers’ rights and personal data are protected and decent work for all is promoted. Trade unions are in a good position to take action through policy advocacy, collective bargaining, social dialogue, and many forms of campaigning. This five-week workers’ academy is designed to empower trade union leaders, activists and workers’ organizations to understand employment and workers realities in digital labour platforms; prepare them for global and national debates and tripartite and bipartite dialogues toward a coherent governance framework, including an envisaged labour standard; and, enable them to take practical short and long term actions such as sustained innovative organizing and collective bargaining to address decent work deficits in digital labour platforms. It will build on the knowledge and resulting experiences resulting from the ITCILO digital labour platforms (DLP) global and regional academies in 2021. OBJECTIVES The five-week academy aims to contribute to an improved trade union capacity for change, innovation, and continuous improvements in operational strategies and approaches to promoting decent work for workers in digital labour platforms (DLP). Specifically, at the end of the academy, participants should be able to: a. collectively analyse contemporary employment and industrial relations issues and concerns of work in digital labour platforms; b. discuss the normative framework and practical applications of ILO instruments in the governance of employment in digital labour platforms and in advocating for a coherent policy framework and decent work in digital labour platforms; c. elaborate and possibly learn from relevant global, regional and country experiences and consolidate good practices in promoting workers’ rights, to organize and bargain collectively, social protection and the governance of algorithmic management in digital labour platforms; d. develop a studied trade union action agenda for tripartite and bipartite discussions to promote decent work In digital labour platforms better; and e. convert knowledge, insights and lessons gained from the academy into implementable ideas for decent work in DLP, including in the context of COVID-19 recovery. CONTENT The training allows an intensive and broader space for participants’ engagement and interaction, with input sessions by experts and specialists, kept to the minimum. The sessions cover the following major themes: Module 1: digital labour platforms and Future of Work Module 2. Algorithmic management and data protection: transparency, accountability and trade union roles Module 3. Regulatory and policy approaches to promote labour rights and social protection in DLP Module 4. The digital future of work: trade union strategies and actions The concluding module will support the participants in developing and submitting individual or group application of learning plans. The module covers ILO ACTRAV tools and resources for trade unions; course evaluation; post-training follow-up and virtual closing ceremonies; and virtual celebration of learning involving graduation and a session on the next steps. NUMBER OF HOURS: 48