Global Workers' Digital Academy: The Future of Work. Towards a Human-Centred Approach to a Better Future of Work, the Role of Trade Unions

Trade union training on the future of work: Strengthening trade unions actions in support of a human-centered agenda on the future of work (blended)

Global Workers' Digital Academy: The Future of Work. Towards a Human-Centred Approach to a Better Future of Work, the Role of Trade Unions

2 November–4 December 2020
The course is available in English, Français, Español

The rapid pace of change in economic globalization and technology, as well as demographics and climate, has been accompanied by equally rapid changes in the world of work, leading to high levels of uncertainty and insecurity. As part of the ILO's "Future of Work" initiative, we have recently seen the launch of a report by the Global Commission on "The Future of Work We Want", followed by the ILO Centenary Declaration on the Future of Work, which was adopted at the International Labour Conference in 2019. The outcomes of these and other related developments require serious and deep reflection on the part of trade-union organizations on how they envisage the future of work. This course will build the capacities of trade unions to face this future of work from a decent-work perspective, imparting understanding of new workplace relationships and an economy and society based on innovation, and strengthening trade unions' negotiating capacities in this rapidly changing framework.

Introduction to the course

The rapid pace of change in economic globalization and technology, as well as demographics and climate, has been accompanied by equally rapid changes in the world of work, leading to high levels of uncertainty and insecurity. As part of the ILO's "Future of Work" initiative, we have recently seen the launch of a report by the Global Commission on "The Future of Work We Want", followed by the ILO Centenary Declaration on the Future of Work, which was adopted at the International Labour Conference in 2019. The outcomes of these and other related developments require serious and deep reflection on the part of trade-union organizations on how they envisage the future of work. This course will build the capacities of trade unions to face this future of work from a decent-work perspective, imparting understanding of new workplace relationships and an economy and society based on innovation, and strengthening trade unions' negotiating capacities in this rapidly changing framework.

Who attends this course?

The course targets trade-union research and workers' education officers, and other union officers who have followed the ILO's actions on the "Future of Work" and are responsible for social and economic policy in their national and/or sectorial trade unions.

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