Supervisors organize content against large technology

Supervisors of the content who are combed through the harmful materials loaded on the online platforms on a global union alliance in an attempt to improve working conditions. The GTUACM Alliance, which was announced today in Nairobi, Kenya, says that it aims to “take responsibility for great technology” for not addressing workers ’issues such as Low wages, shock, and lack of representation of the union Through industry.

Companies like Meta, Bytedance and Alphabet often Use of external sources On their platforms for contracting workers. The job requires that these workers analyze and inform violent videos, hate speech, children’s abuse, and other harmful content. GTUACM says that many industry supervisors suffer from “depression, post -shock disorder, suicide thinking, and severe mental health consequences” due to their exposure to such content without sufficient support. Workers often face unrealistic goals, employment doubts, and fear of punishing them to talk about issues.

“Click to review thousands of terrible videos every day – cutting the head, abuse children, and torture – negatively affects our mental health, but this is not the only source of pressure. Unstable contracts and continuous monitoring in the work add more tension.” “We need stable work, fair treatment, and real access to mental health during working hours.”

GTUACM says it aims to provide a global platform for bargaining with technology companies, as well as coordination of mass campaigns and professional health research. The content supervisors will be part of the alliance through their unions, with the unions in Ghana, Kenya, Turkey, Poland, Colombia, Portugal, Morocco, Tunisia and the Philippines that are currently the coalition. Unions are also expected to join other countries, including Ireland and Germany, in the near future.

The United States is noticeably absent from that list, but this does not mean that the American unions will not participate. Benjamin Barton, head of the Information and Communications Technology Sector of the World Federation in Union, said. freedom “Not all unions that support the regulation of content content are able to attend this event, but we are working closely with our member unions in the United States, such as CWA, to demand justice in the large technological supply chain.”

“Kenya has become a global center for moderation (content), and we welcome investors in Kenya to invest in this sector, but it should not be against the health of workers in this country,” said Benson Okaro, Secretary -General of the Kenya Telecommunications Workers Union (Kao). “This is why we are organizing on the ground, along with unions around the world. We are sending together a clear message to investors in this sector, including Meta, Tiktok, Alphabet and Amazon, who will not remain the supervisors everywhere silent while the platforms are achieved from their pain.”

Meta is noticeably prosecuted Former content supervisor in Ghana and Kenya On the psychological distress of the contracting role. A group of former supervisors of the content who informed graphic videos and violent videos on Tiktok Fif up a lawsuit against their former contractor, Telus DigitalThe allegations that they were expelled for their attempt to collect and improve their working conditions.

“The content that we see not only disappears at the end of the transformation. He is chasing our sleep and leaving permanent emotional scars,” Ouzil, a former TELUS worker, said in a statement of the Uni Union. “When we raise it with our managers, they say these are the conditions required by Tiktok, the customer. When we defend better conditions in our jobs, our co -workers are shot.”

We have contacted Meta, Tiktok and Google to comment on the composition of GTUACM.

“Companies like Facebook and Tiktok cannot continue to hide behind the use of external sources to correct the responsibility of the damage that helps in its creation,” said Christie Hoffman, Secretary -General of the Uni Global Union. “This work can be-more secure and sustainable. This means live wages, long-term employment contracts, human production standards, and a real voice for workers.”