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AI: All the tech we cannot see

ITUC’s new report on the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on working people offers key recommendations for unions to influence AI deployment and regulation.

1 year ago

Introducing the contract zone in negotiations

by Dr Salomé Teuteberg collective bargaining / collective bargaining agreements / negotiation / Negotiator's Guide / wage bargaining

This video explores the concept of the contract zone, focusing on the different positions and what needs to align for agreement to be reached.

1 year ago

How Community Health Workers secured payment of delayed stipends

by Zanele Chakela care work / collective bargaining and organising / community health workers / decent work / public care work programmes / workers r

A feminist approach to mobilising, organising, and sustaining protest action.

1 year ago

The state of social dialogue in Africa – A trade union perspective

by Dr Hod Anyigba afCFTA / decent work / free trade agreements / regional integration / social dialogue / social justice / trade and industrial policy

AfCFTA member states must establish mechanisms for meaningful social dialogue and National Implementation Committees that include trade unions, women, youth, and informal economy actors.

1 year ago

Social dialogue in action: Organised labour influence on trade policy in South Africa

by Trenton Elsely afCFTA / decent work / inter-africa trade / labour and employment / labour provisions / social clause / social dialogue / trade and industrial policy

Riefdah Ajam, General Secretary of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA), discusses how unions, as an equal partner in South Africa’s formal social dialogue structure, NEDLAC, influence trade and investment policy and advocate for a social clause in the AfCFTA.

1 year ago

Online Course: Understanding AI and its impacts in the workplace

by Melanie Julie artificial intelligence / collective bargaining and organising / digital labour rights / future of jobs / generative

A self-paced course for workers, worker leaders, and educators to learn AI in simple terms and apply it in workplaces and communities.

1 year ago

The crisis facing Early Childhood Development Practitioners

by Nelly Nyagah care work / decent work / early childhood development practitioners / education sector / expanded public works programme / gender equality / public care work programmes

The need for the government to rapidly transform care work programmes is laid bare by ECD Practitioners’ analysis of the devaluation of their vital role.

1 year ago