{"id":7482,"date":"2025-04-28T08:43:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T07:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/28april.org\/?p=7482"},"modified":"2025-05-13T16:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:20:43","slug":"global-international-workers-memorial-day-2025-protecting-workers-rights-in-the-age-of-digitalisation-and-artificial-intelligence-ituc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/28april.org\/?p=7482","title":{"rendered":"Global: International Workers\u2019 Memorial Day 2025: Protecting workers\u2019 rights in the age of digitalisation and artificial intelligence &#8211; ITUC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"hero\" class=\"article\">\n<header class=\"cartouche \">\n<div class=\"intro\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-10 offset-xl-1\">\n<div class=\"chapo surlignable\">\n<p>The ITUC is using this year\u2019s International Workers\u2019 Memorial Day, 28 April, to call for urgent action to safeguard workers\u2019 lives and rights in the age of digitalisation and artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"img-article logo-article\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/28april.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ituc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7385\" src=\"https:\/\/28april.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ituc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/28april.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ituc.png 1000w, https:\/\/28april.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ituc-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/28april.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ituc-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"container\">\n<article>\n<div class=\"main\">\n<div class=\"texte surlignable\">\n<p>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 \u2014 putting lives and health at risk.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spip\" role=\"list\">\n<li>AI-driven management is already intensifying pressure on 427 million workers worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>80% of large employers use AI to track individual worker productivity.<\/li>\n<li>Workers are facing burnout, injuries and unbearable stress from non-stop monitoring, unrealistic targets and zero input on how technology is used.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"spip\"><p>&#8220;Too often artificial intelligence is being deployed not as a tool for progress but as a weapon against workers.&#8221;<i>ITUC General Secretary Luc Triangle<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFrom 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Deployment of new technologies, such as AI, without proper consultation with workers and their unions is already causing serious problems around the world:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spip\" role=\"list\">\n<li>In the Philippines, 19-year-old delivery rider Jasper Dalman died while working for Foodpanda. His union, RIDERS-SENTRO, won recognition and insurance rights after his death highlighted the deadly consequences of algorithmic exploitation that set impossible productivity targets.<\/li>\n<li>In Turkey, TikTok content moderators employed by Telus were sacked after organising against inhumane AI-managed workloads and trauma-inducing content.<\/li>\n<li>In the US, nurses working through platforms face AI-controlled shift apps that bypass worker protections that create dangerous conditions for them and their patients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ITUC is calling for:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spip\" role=\"list\">\n<li>Full involvement of unions in the design and deployment of workplace AI.<\/li>\n<li>Transparent, human-centred technology that upholds rights and safety.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ituc-csi.org\/time-to-deliver-rights-for-all-platform-workers\">A binding ILO Convention on platform work<\/a>\u00a0to protect all workers in the digital economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This 28 April, we remember the dead \u2013 and fight for the living. Technology should work\u00a0<i>for<\/i>\u00a0us, not\u00a0<i>against<\/i>\u00a0us.<\/p>\n<p>The new ITUC report, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ituc-csi.org\/artificial-intelligence-and-digitalisation-a-matter-of-life-and-death-for-workers\">Artificial intelligence and digitalisation: A matter of life and death for workers\u2019<\/a>, identifies the physical and psychosocial harms at work when these technologies are introduced without consulting workers.\u00a0<a class=\"spip_out\" href=\"https:\/\/trello.com\/c\/u79i8Ehf\/347-international-workers-memorial-day-28-april-2025\" rel=\"external\">Check out the campaign materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.ituc-csi.org\/International-Workers-Memorial-Day-2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this post<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-7482\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/28april.org\/?p=7482&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-7482\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/28april.org\/?p=7482&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-7482\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/28april.org\/?p=7482&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pocket\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-pocket sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/28april.org\/?p=7482&amp;share=pocket\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pocket\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-jetpack-whatsapp sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/28april.org\/?p=7482&amp;share=jetpack-whatsapp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on WhatsApp\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/28april.org\/?p=7482\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Global%3A%20International%20Workers%E2%80%99%20Memorial%20Day%202025%3A%20Protecting%20workers%E2%80%99%20rights%20in%20the%20age%20of%20digitalisation%20and%20artificial%20intelligence%20-%20ITUC&body=https%3A%2F%2F28april.org%2F%3Fp%3D7482&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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