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Enhancing Youth Engagement in Global Transportation Sector

An overview of the ITF Youth Committee meeting outcomes, focusing on strategies to empower young transport workers worldwide, including digital skills training, gig economy initiatives, and policy collaborations.

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Enhancing Youth Engagement in Global Transportation Sector

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  1. ITF Youth - Outline of the presentation • Delivering Congress outcomes • ITF Youth Committee Meeting 2019

  2. ITF Youth - Delivering Congress outcomes ITF 2018 Congress Resolution (20) • Continue to map membership statistics in terms of young transport workers members and grow the global young transport workers network. • Ensure the crucial link between the work taking place through ITF headquarters with the regional priority work and supporting young transport workers' involvement regionally. • Promote all affiliates to create youth structures in order to increase young transport workers activities. • Liaison with its affiliates to support young transport workers in organising activities and focusing on organising the young transport workers in all the affiliated unions in a more structured manner.

  3. ITF Youth - Delivering Congress outcomes Focus: Gig economy Aviation Informal workers Digital skills and tools

  4. ITF Youth Committee Meeting 2019

  5. 2019 YTW Committee meeting outcomes Growing and activating membership/Innovating Campaigning Training and capacity building: • Organising and mentoring skills/strategies • Future of Work • SDGs • Wellbeing • Cadets Digital skills • Develop digital tools for organising to activate and strengthen networks of young • Train YTW organisers and mentors on digital skills

  6. 2019 YTW Committee meeting outcomes Growing and activating membership/Innovating Campaigning Informal work: • Organise young workers in informal urban transport • Improve unions’ capacity to organise informal workers • Campaign to increase visibility of young workers in informal work Gig Economy: • Research and Mapping • Build a structured network of food delivery riders • Build affiliate knowledge and skills for organising gig economy workers

  7. 2019 YTW Committee meeting outcomes Growing and activating membership/Innovating Campaigning Job transition-Automation • Policy collaboration with the NTUC • Research on employment landscape and job opportunities • Secure the upskilling and reskilling of young workers to facilitate their transition to appropriate/higher value jobs Low Cost Carriers • Build organising and campaigning capacity of young workers to organise and engage in LCC campaigns

  8. 2019 YTW Committee meeting outcomes Influencing global and regional policy • Promote the informal transport workers charter in the ITF people’s public transport policy. • Raise awareness on the relation between climate change and jobs to support the OPT campaign with PSI and ITUC on Just Transition, climate jobs and public services. • Strengthen collaboration with affiliates and other GUFs to address young workers’ issues related to future of work and the ILO C122 on employment policy.

  9. YTW Committee meeting outcomes: Other activities Other Activities • Summer school • Communications • International Youth Day • Apprenticeship programme for affiliated YTW • Solidarity

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