The 28 April ITUC report Artificial intelligence and digitalisation: A matter of life and death for workers identifies widespread physical and psychosocial harms at work associated with the use of these technologies, from cognitive overload as humans are required to work in tandem with robots — cobots — to strain injuries, stress and depression as a consequence of unachievable quotas determined and policed by algorithms. Download here
Journée internationale de commémoration des travailleuses et des travailleurs morts ou blessés au travail 2025 : protéger les droits des travailleurs à l’ère de la numérisation et de l’intelligence artificielle
À l’occasion de la Journée internationale de commémoration des travailleuses et des travailleurs morts ou blessés au travail, du 28 avril 2025, la CSI réclame des actions urgentes pour préserver la vie et les droits des travailleuses et des travailleurs à l’ère de la numérisation et de l’intelligence artificielle (IA).
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Jornada Internacional de Conmemoración de los Trabajadores Fallecidos y Lesionados 2025: Proteger los derechos de los trabajadores en la era de la digitalización y la inteligencia artificial.
Con ocasión de la Jornada Internacional de Conmemoración de los Trabajadores Fallecidos y Lesionados, que se celebra el 28 de abril, la CSI ha hecho un llamamiento para que se adopten medidas urgentes destinadas a salvaguardar la vida y los derechos de los trabajadores en la era de la digitalización y la inteligencia artificial (IA).
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International Workers’ Memorial Day 2025: Protecting workers’ rights in the age of digitalisation and artificial intelligence
The ITUC is using this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day, 28 April, to call for urgent action to safeguard workers’ lives and rights in the age of digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI).
“Today, April 28, we observe the World Day for Safety and Health at Work and honor the memory of workers affected by work accidents and occupational illnesses. This year it will go under the motto “Revolutionizing Health and Safety: The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Workplace Digitalization”. We, as part of the CT Support family, stand in solidarity with the International Labor Organization (MOT) campaign, which aims to clarify how new technologies are transforming BZR, including through automating tasks, use of intelligent BZR tools and surveillance systems, augmented reality, virtual reality and algorithmic management of work. The digital transformation of work has led to evolving labor arrangements, such as remote work and digital work platforms.
28 de Abril de 2025
Día Internacional de los Trabajadores Caídos y Lisiados en los Centros de Trabajo.
En defensa de nuestros derechos
¡Viva la Huelga Indefinida!
#EstaPatriaNoSeVende
#NoALaMina #DerogaciónLey462 #EstaCajaSeDefiende #NoAlEmbalseDeRioIndio
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Unite members are being urged to get involved with this year’s International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD), with plans well underway for country wide commemoration events to “remember the dead and fight for the living” later this month.
The annual event is held around the world every year on April 28 as workers gather to reflect on fellow workers lost or injured while just doing their jobs.
This year Unite members are organising memorials around the country, and joining in many others and the union has produced lots of resources and guides to help branches get involved.
For 2025 the International TUC theme is “Occupational health and safety: A fundamental right at work” including an explicit additional focus on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digitisation on occupational health and safety.
Events will be happening across the country. In London construction workers will gather at the Building Workers memorial at Tower Hill, in Somerset workers from Hinkley Point C will mark the day at a memorial in Bridgwaters’ Blake Gardens and in Glasgow workers will gather at the memorial in the People’s Palace.
The central Birmingham event will highlight the safety-critical factor behind Unite’s local bins dispute, and remember David Carpenter, a binman for Coventry City Council, who died after being crushed in a bin lorry in 2023.
There are also events at the Unite Memorial in Liverpool, Lincoln Square in Manchester and many many more.
Global partners that Unite works with also have themes for the day of remembrance, for example BWI will highlight its “Too Hot to Work” campaign around the dangers of heat stress, as well as launching its “Stop Deadly Dust” campaign.
On 28 April each year, International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) is a time to remember those who have died either because of a workplace accident, ill health or diseases as a result of work.
Why we ‘remember the dead and fight for the living’
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) annual statistics show on average that 135 workers are killed in work related accidents each year. They also estimate that there are around 13,000 deaths each year from occupational lung disease and cancer caused by past exposure at work to chemicals and dust (such as asbestos or silica).
However, safety campaigners estimate that the true figure for all work-related deaths is closer to 50,000 each year.
Although it is rare for a UNISON member to die in a workplace incident, unfortunately some do suffer serious injuries and work-related ill health, including musculoskeletal disorders, stress, anxiety and depression. This can significantly affect them, their family, friends and other work colleagues.
UNISON knows that the key to providing safe and healthy workplaces is effective risk management, eliminating or reducing the risk of harm and having safe systems of work, including training and access to protective equipment.
Additionally, UNISON health safety representatives play a vital role in keeping workplaces safe and healthy by working with employers and raising members’ concerns about working condition, as well as undertaking inspections of workplaces to check all steps are being taking to keep workers safe.
The ITUC is using this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day, 28 April, to call for urgent action to safeguard workers’ lives and rights in the age of digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI).
AI is transforming the world of work at unprecedented speed. But behind the promise of innovation lies a darker reality: algorithmic management, constant surveillance, impossible productivity targets, and dangerous working conditions. Technology is being used not to improve working conditions and safety, but to exploit them — putting lives and health at risk.
“Too often artificial intelligence is being deployed not as a tool for progress but as a weapon against workers.” ITUC General Secretary Luc Triangle
“From warehouses to hospitals, delivery bikes to data labs, workers are under pressure like never before. The deployment of new technologies must respect the norms of any other changes in the workplace: workers have a right be consulted and included. This basic, democratic, workplace right will ensure the use of AI is designed with safety, fairness and dignity at is core. Workers and their unions must have a seat at the table for the benefit of all.”
Deployment of new technologies, such as AI, without proper consultation with workers and their unions is already causing serious problems around the world:
The ITUC is calling for:
This 28 April, we remember the dead – and fight for the living. Technology should work for us, not against us.
The new ITUC report, ‘Artificial intelligence and digitalisation: A matter of life and death for workers’, identifies the physical and psychosocial harms at work when these technologies are introduced without consulting workers. Check out the campaign materials.
IWMD 2025 – English graphicsIWMD 2025
IWMD 2025 – Gráficos en españolIWMD 2025
IWMD 2025 – Graphiques en françaisIWMD 2025
IWMD 2025 – Gráficos em portuguêsIWMD 2025
https://www.ituc-csi.org/International-Workers-Memorial-Day-2025
28 kwietnia 2025 r. obchodzimy Światowy Dzień Bezpieczeństwa i Ochrony Zdrowia w Pracy pod hasłem „Cyfryzacja i sztuczna inteligencja – nowa era pracy”.
Z tej okazji Międzynarodowa Organizacja Pracy (MOP) przygotowała raport, w którym podkreśla pilną potrzebę aktualizacji przepisów bhp, aby nadążały za dynamicznymi zmianami technologicznymi.
MOP zwraca uwagę na kluczowe wyzwania, takie jak:
✔️ obciążenia ergonomiczne i psychiczne wynikające ze współpracy z robotami i systemami nadzoru, ✔️ stres i wypalenie zawodowe spowodowane zarządzaniem algorytmicznym,
✔️ zagrożenia cybermobbingiem i izolacją w pracy zdalnej,
✔️ przeciążenia poznawcze i fizyczne związane z długotrwałym użytkowaniem VR i AR.
W swoim najnowszym raporcie MOP wskazuje pięć strategicznych kierunków działań, które powinny stanowić fundament bezpiecznej i sprawiedliwej cyfryzacji świata pracy:
✅ stworzenie regulacji zapewniających bezpieczną interakcję człowiek-maszyna,
✅ wzmocnienie ochrony danych osobowych i prywatności pracowników w środowisku cyfrowym,
✅ zagwarantowanie prawa do „bycia offline”, chroniącego czas wolny i zdrowie psychiczne pracowników,
✅ systematyczne podnoszenie kompetencji cyfrowych i zapewnienie dostępu do szkoleń,
✅ pełne zaangażowanie pracowników i ich przedstawicieli w proces projektowania i wdrażania nowych technologii.
Szczegółowe informacje można znaleźć w raporcie Międzynarodowej Organizacji Pracy, dostępnym na stronie Dnia w portalu CIOP-PIB: www.ciop.pl/28kwietnia2025
