Our Digital Future: Building Union Capacity to Shape Digitalization

23 Nov 2021 Washington, DC, USA 23 Nov - 23 Nov

Our Digital Future: Building Union Capacity to Shape Digitalization

  • 23 Nov - 23 Nov
  • Washington, DC, USA

As part the global PSI/FES project "Our Digital Future", PSI Interamerica is organizing a regional webinar, for trade union leaders on labor, trade unions and digitalization.

The webinar will be held on 23 November, 10:00am EST.

register here

09:00 Opening and welcome remarks

• Federico Dávila, co-president PSI Interamericas

• Jan Hochadel, co-president PSI Interamericas

09:20 PSI/FES “Our Digital Future” Global Project: Updates and planned

activities for 2022

• Christina Colclough, The Why Not Lab/Our Digital Future Global

Coordinator

• Steve Porter, PSI Subregional Secretary for North America

09:45

Digitalization in global trade negotiations: FTAs, WTO and OECD

• Deborah James, OWINFS/Center for Economic and Policy

Research (CEPR)

• Rob Weil, AFT

10:30

The future is now: Telework in Latin America and how 5G will

exponentially increase digitalization at work

• Sofia Scasserra, Transnational Institute (TNI)/National

University “Tres de Febrero” - Argentina (UNTREF)

• Giorgio Boccardo, Fundación Nodo XXI

11:15

Conclusions and next steps

• Jocelio Drummond, PSI Interamericas Regional Secretary