Trade Unions in Transformation 4.0 - 5th Session: "Riders on the Storm: How transport workers organise in the emerging platform economy"

Veranstaltungsnummer: 250935 – als .ics herunterladen

The platform economy is growing - the number of online offers is rising and so is, in the case of delivery, the number of riders on the roads. The pandemic has further increased the demand for online services among the well-situated, leading platforms to further expand their business.

Meanwhile, many workers who have lost their formal jobs now seek to work in the platform economy. In most cases, these workers find themselves in bogus or disguised self-employment with bad working conditions. The platforms, while acting as the real employers on many levels, deny their responsibility and have not been regulated to ensure workers' protection.

With this session, we aim to present and discuss strategies of transport workers and trade unions in Argentina, Indonesia, Korea, Belgium, the Netherlands and Uganda that challenge the digital platform companies. You will hear about new approaches and learn what power resources they have made use of to organise and fight for workers' rights.

The event will be translated simultaneously in English/Spanish/Portuguese/French and streamed live at: www.fes.de/lnk/transform.

Introduction and overview: Dominique Klawonn, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Speakers:
- Vera Trappmann, Leeds University on Global Labour Unrest, England
- Laura Perelman, Instituto de Desarrollo Económico y Social - IDES (Institute for Economic and Social Development), Argentina
- Fahmi Panimbang, Director Lembaga Informasi Perburuhan Sedane - LIPS (Sedane Labour Resource Centre), Indonesia
- Erick Manga, University of Nairobi, UON Institute for Development Studies (IDS)
- Aelim Yun, Centre for Labour & Welfare Law at the Seoul National University, South Korea
- Kurt Vandaele, European Trade Union Institute (etui), Belgium

- Comment from Stephenson Kisungu, ITF

Moderators: Melisa Serrano, GLU/University of the Philippines, and Victoria Basualdo, FLACSO

We look forward to welcoming you!