Making Workers a Priority: Rethinking the Value of Labor Post-Pandemic

COVID-19 has shown us the necessity of essential workers in key sectors of labor, including healthcare, education and retail grocery. However, despite the impact laborers have had in ensuring that communities and society at large are safe, they face continued difficulties in ensuring that their rights and livelihoods are protected. 

To explore the challenges and long-term shifts essential workers are likely to face post-pandemic, the 3rd Annual Labor Innovation & Technology Summit hosted Innovations & the Pandemic: What’s Next for Essential Workers on Feb. 19. Panelists included AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, National Nurses United Executive Director Bonnie Castillo, and the International President of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Mark Perrone. Moderating the panel was Politico Senior Editor and author of its Global Translations newsletter Ryan Heath. 

Check out the panel here:

Click to watch other sessions from the Labor Innovation & Technology Summit:

• Welcome & Introduction 
• Straight to Streaming: Pandemic Strategy or New Normal? 
• Streaming & the Changing Business Model  
• Volumetric Video and the Future of Entertainment 
• Deepfakes Update
• 10 Game Changers from CES  
• From Gaming to Dubbing: What’s Hot in VO  
• Realigning Technology and Humanity  
• Centering Unions in the Future of Work    
• Big Data, Surveillance and Discrimination  
• Covering Content Innovators: SAG-AFTRA’s New Influencer Agreement   

The views expressed by the guests are their own and not that of SAG-AFTRA. Any mention of products or services does not imply SAG-AFTRA’s endorsement.