It’s time to recognise domestic work as essential work — and ensure these workers receive dignity, fair wages, social protection, and legal rights wherever they are.

✊🏽 From Nairobi to Manila to the Gulf, gig workers are organizing across borders.
This piece is a launchpad for their collective vision of global justice.
🧠 Essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of work, labor rights, and tech accountability.

But workers aren’t staying silent. In Geneva, alongside the official ILC, gig workers and organizers are hosting a counter gathering. Their goal: to challenge corporate narratives, center worker voices, and push for a global framework grounded in rights, dignity, and worker-led solutions.

📍 As the International Labour Conference debates platform work, this piece lays it out clearly: the current system is failing gig workers. And the way AI is being built and deployed is only making things worse—used not to empower workers, but to surveil them, drive down pay, and block organizing.

📣 The declaration calls for living wages, social security, health and safety protections, and proper employment classification for platform workers. It also demands algorithmic transparency, protection of workers data, the right to organise, and access to remedies for unfair decisions.

🧑🏾‍💻 From content moderators and data labellers to app-based drivers and delivery workers, millions power our digital economy—yet too many face poverty-level wages, algorithmic surveillance, and total lack of protections.

🎤 Hear directly from data workers
⚖️ See what justice could look like
🗣️ Speakers include Luc Triangle (ITUC), Mustafa_Qadri (Equidem) — more to be announced

#DigitalLabour #HumanRights #Webinar #AI #ILC2025 #PlatformWork #LabourRights

Join us on 28 May for the global launch of this report and a new policy brief — released ahead of the ILC meetings — calling for urgent action from Big Tech, governments, and investors to uphold the rights of platform workers.

The report documents multiple forms of systemic violence embedded deep within the global digital supply chain. If you rely on AI or social media, you need to read this report to know what’s happening behind the screen.

Based on interviews with 113 workers in Colombia, Kenya, Ghana, and Philippines, the report reveals:
➤ PTSD and insomnia from moderating child abuse and violent content
➤ NDAs that silence trauma
➤ Union-busting and blacklisting
These are not isolated incidents and they are far from the only ones.

🌍 We're proud of Geoffrey and our Kenyan team who stand with survivors and fight for migrant workers' rights every day.

⚖️ But no one should have to rely on individual bravery just to access basic rights and dignity.

✈️ Wherever people migrate for work, their rights must follow.