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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I previously posted a head-up for this event, here is the registration link:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> <a href="https://ituc-csi-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/4015929010710/WN_UsV2i9AkQa6bqbSlDx8uFw">https://ituc-csi-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/4015929010710/WN_UsV2i9AkQa6bqbSlDx8uFw</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><br>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>=========<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Default>Dear colleagues,<span style='color:windowtext'> (excuses for cross-posting)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Default>Find here the registration link to the July 1 webinar.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=Default><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Default><b>Thank you for helping us spread this announcement to your own networks. <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=Default><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:21.0pt'>Capturing Our Future</span></b><span style='font-size:21.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:21.0pt'>How WTO is helping Big Tech Corporations to Take Over the World of Work</span></b><span style='font-size:21.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>To register, <a href="https://ituc-csi-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/4015929010710/WN_UsV2i9AkQa6bqbSlDx8uFw">click here</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>A Webinar </span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) </span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>and the New Economics Foundation (NEF) </span></b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>8.30am (Washington DC) / 2.30pm (Brussels) / 8.30pm (Singapore) </span></b><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>July 1, 2020 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Eighty-four Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are negotiating a plurilateral trade agreement on e-commerce. The negotiations have little to do with e-commerce itself and even less with trade. The WTO negotiations are aiming at constructing a global data governance that would further empower the positions of technology giants and data companies on the expense of workers rights, wages, democracy, and privacy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The ITUC published a report written by Duncan McCann of the New Economics Foundation that reveals how current textual proposals, if agreed, would harm global labour in many ways: from increasing precarious platform work and creating massive governance gaps to applying workplace surveillance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Join us on July 1 at 8.30am (Washington DC) / 2.30pm (Brussels) / 8.30pm (Singapore) to discuss <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-bottom:12.1pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>• The report’s findings with regards to the workplace, quality of employment, industrialization for developing countries, platform work and other areas </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-bottom:12.1pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>• How a WTO agreement could lead to exacerbating inequality, increasing labour market polarization, and monopolies </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>• How Big Tech is taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to capture more data and increase their power </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Report findings by <b>Duncan McCann (NEF) </b>and <b>Yorgos Altintzis (ITUC) </b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Discussion with <b>Anna Byhovskaya (TUAC) </b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Moderated by <b>Alison Tate (ITUC) </b></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>To register, <a href="https://ituc-csi-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/4015929010710/WN_UsV2i9AkQa6bqbSlDx8uFw">click here</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Yorgos Altintzis,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Policy Officer,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Economic & Social Policy Department, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>International Trade Union Confederation <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>