SAG-AFTRA is releasing a series of videos created by prominent union members calling on fellow members and Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when it becomes available to them.

SAG-AFTRA is releasing a series of videos created by prominent union members calling on fellow members and Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when it becomes available to them.

SAG-AFTRA is releasing a series of videos created by prominent union members calling on fellow members and Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when it becomes available to them.

SAG-AFTRA is releasing a series of videos created by prominent union members calling on fellow members and Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when it becomes available to them.

SAG-AFTRA is releasing a series of videos created by prominent union members calling on fellow members and Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 when it becomes available to them.

The ways influencers create content and engage with their followers has become a vital engine of digital commerce. But at their core, influencers are gig workers who are operating in a space that is often unregulated and unprotected. This discussion will cover the innovative new ways influencers are monetizing their social media, the organizing efforts that led to SAG-AFTRA’s groundbreaking new agreement and the reasons why supporting the influencer community is needed now more than ever.

Moderator: Ray Rodriguez

“Data is the New Oil” is a catchphrase these days, and companies are seeking to refine the data they collect on customers and workers to maximize their profits. Their data gathering prowess can also be used for more unsavory pursuits. 

In the context of the organizing campaign at Amazon in Alabama, this panel will explore the impacts of the quest for data on workers, in terms of surveillance, control, discrimination, and discouraging unionization, and how workers can push back through organizing, bargaining, and legislation.

A discussion focusing on the experiences and lessons learned in key sectors including education, healthcare and retail grocery, how innovation and the pandemic have changed work and impacted frontline employees, and how some shifts–should they become normalized post-COVID–may present long term challenges for work, workers and services that are critical to all of us.

Moderator: Ryan Heath

Panelists: Bonnie Castillo, Mark Perrone, Liz Shuler, Randi Weingarten

AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler delivers a presentation on the technological change that is happening all around us. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotics and automation, the Internet of Things and more are impacting the workplace in every sector of the economy. 

Instead of diminishing the quality of jobs, crushing worker voice and worsening wage and wealth inequality, the AFL-CIO sees technological evolution as an opportunity for unions to be at the center of a future filled with good jobs and new worker power.