Publikationen der Stiftung → Asia: mapping of trade unions' Titel
Publikationen der Stiftung → Asia: mapping of trade unions'
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- TitelAsia: mapping of trade unions' : use of digital communication and education tools : when Covid-19 was declared a global panemic
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The Covid-19 pandemic has upended millions of lives. Lockdowns and community quarantines have disrupted trade union work at the global and local levels. This brief study maps out how global union federations (GUFs) in the Asia Pacific region and their national/local affiliates are responding to the pandemic and how they are using alternative online communication and education tools to continue their union work. The study focuses on nine global union federations and one international workers’ organization to capture and understand their response to the pandemic-led shift in work order and the difficulties faced by them in reaching their affiliates particularly exacerbated by the digital divide. The report is a much-needed account of an often ignored externality of the pandemic which has huge consequences for workers’ rights. It underscores the need for expanding the gains made in the usage of online tools beyond communication and education and towards organizing, strategizing, planning, negotiations, and political mapping.