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Understanding new technology
The deployment of new technology under capitalism has always been a huge challenge for workers. This is because new technology is basically used to reduce costs and...
What's the challenge?
Technology. Revolution. These are words that are much in the air at the moment. The use of new technology, it is said, will transform the workplace and society. We...
Tool kit for union leaders
The toolkit is a package of materials and information intended to inform the response of unions to the introduction of new technology. This consists of a framework...
Technology in ports
ITF’s dockers’ unions have been at the sharp end of port automation. Due to new technology we have seen jobs disappear, change and shift location. Nevertheless,...
Challenges and opportunities in aviation
Aviation has always been a tech-heavy sector, but now the use of tech is spreading beyond the aircraft and the control tower. There are many technologies being...
Youth and new technology
Young people will be disproportionately affected by new technology in the workplace and the economy for the simple reason that they will have more of their working...
The future of work
As a global organisation the ITF has an obligation to look at events from the global, the macro perspective. As an organisation of trade unions we also have an...
Workers, transport and the economy
Automation and artificial intelligence does not remove human labour from the economy, it shifts and creates jobs elsewhere. Employment shift Automation leads to...