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UN / ILO 100 YEARS ADVANCER
STORY: UN / ILO 100 YEARS ADVANCER
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 10 APRIL 2019, NEW YORK CITY
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1. Exterior shot, UN Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Ryder and Espinosa entering press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization:
“A 100 years of ILO’s work has made a very significant difference to the world of work we have today. Had the ILO not existed our world of work would look different and it would not be where it is and not as good as it is today. But we are acutely conscient of the challenges ahead.”
4. Wide shot, press room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization:
“We are not on track, if we are brutally honest Mrs President, on SDG 8. That is the SDG which refers to full employment and decent work for all. We know there are still in excess of 170 million people without work in the world today. We know that the youth levels of unemployment are two to three times higher than general levels of unemployment and if you look at quality aspects of jobs in the world, we know that many people are working – up to in the middle and low income countries 25 to 30 percent of workers, they a re working and still living in poverty.”
6. Wide shot, press room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization:
“Many other things I could quote you: the gender pay gap still in excess of 20 percent around the world, 152 million child workers, 40 million people in modern slavery. We have a long way to go.”
8. Med shot, reporter
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization:
“The notion that the technology is going to determent everything and a future of work will be built in the image of technology. I think that’s wrong. I think that’s wrong because the world it’s not like that and the future of work basically depends on policy decisions. Now of course, technology will come into play, but the real question is how we will handle the technology.” Uber is a great example, you know. Uber is causing headache to policy makers and legislators, judges and labour tribunals around the world. We have some fundamental decisions to make about that.”
10. Wide shot press room
11. Close up, reporter
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization:
“The technologies which drives the gig economy can open up extraordinary opportunities to make the world of work better. Greater choice, greater freedom, greater ability to balance private life and work. But it could also produce a 21st century generation of digital day labourers. We could have the utopian or the dystopian. And it depends entirely on the policies that we adopt.”
13. Zoom out, end of press conference
“Had the ILO not existed our world of work would look different and it would not be where it is and not as good as it is today”- Guy Ryder, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization said Wednesday, on the eve of the Organization’s 100th anniversary.
Tomorrow, April 11, will mark a full 100 years since the International labour Organization (ILO) was established as a tripartite organization, the only one of its kind, bringing together representatives of governments, employers and workers in its executive bodies.
Ryder was speaking to reporters in New York following a commemorative meeting of the UN General Assembly on the one-hundredth anniversary of the establishment of the International Labour Organization.
The Director-General said “we are not on track” when it comes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal number eight, which refers to full employment and decent work for all and added “we know there are still in excess of 170 million people without work in the world today. We know that the youth levels of unemployment are two to three times higher than general levels of unemployment and if you look at quality aspects of jobs in the world, we know that many people are working – up to in the middle- and low-income countries 25 to 30 percent of workers, they are working and still living in poverty.”
Ryder also said, “we have a long way to go” after giving a grim statistic: “the gender pay gap still in excess of 20 percent around the world, 152 million child workers, 40 million people in modern slavery.”
Answering a question on relations between the future of work and technology, he said “the notion that the technology is going to determent everything and a future of work will be built in the image of technology. I think that’s wrong.”
Ryder said that while the technology will have a big role to play in the future of work, that future “basically depends on policy decisions”
The Director-General elaborated this point by quoting German Chancellor Angela Merkel and said “the technologies which drives the gig economy can open up extraordinary opportunities to make the world of work better. Greater choice, greater freedom, greater ability to balance private life and work. But it could also produce a 21st century generation of digital day labourers. We could have the utopian or the dystopian. And it depends entirely on the policies that we adopt.”
The ILO was founded in 1919, in the wake of a destructive WW I, to pursue a vision based on the premise that universal, lasting peace can be established only if it is based on social justice. The ILO became the first specialized agency of the UN in 1946.
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