On the menu: an ETUC report on organizing digital platform workers and still with digital work, discussions on the possibility for an international crowdworker social security system; part-time working arrangements for expectant and postpartum mothers; a global framework agreement for the Partouche gaming group; and national news on Latvia's construction sector, labor code reforms in Poland, and the South African Cosatu union's new female head.
Digital platform workers
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has commissioned a report: ‘Collective voice in the platform economy: challenges, opportunities, solutions’, and authored by Professor Jeremias Prassl of Oxford University. In it the author identifies the challenges in organizing the worker collective and explores different strategies unions use to organize and engage workers. The report can be accessed here.
A ‘digital social welfare’ for digital platform workers that works globally? How can the growing number of crowdworkers access social security cover if they are working in Stuttgart or in New Delhi for example?
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