Panel Discussion: Conflicts over Labor & Socio-Ecological Transformation in Global Logistics
The event will be held in English.
Logistics forms the backbone of the globalized economy. At the same time, it is an important area of conflict in dealing with the global environmental crisis and geopolitical tensions. The event will focus on labor conflicts in truck logistics, aviation and the port industry. Under conditions of rationalization pressure and migrant precarity, tensions over labour rights, environmental sustainability and geo-economic influence are intensifying.
While companies and governments are pushing ahead with automation and restructuring and debating measures to decarbonize global transport systems, workers around the world are coming under pressure - and organizing resistance at the same time. Strikes, protests and alliances across sectors and borders show that logistics is not only an economic infrastructure, but also a deeply political one.
Together, we want to discuss where opportunities for international and cross-sector solidarity arise and where they are blocked, and what a socio-ecological transformation of logistics can look like that is shaped not at the expense of, but by the workers themselves.
The event will address the following questions:
- How are labour conflicts in truck logistics, aviation and the port industry shaped by rationalization pressure and precarization?
- What role does migration play in the logistics sector?
- What opportunities are opening up for cross-sectoral and international solidarity - and what structures are hindering them?
- To what extent do processes such as automation and privatization reinforce existing inequalities and open up new spaces for action?
- How do local labor disputes affect global logistics networks?
- What role can the logistics sector play as a political field in the socio-ecological transformation and in geopolitical conflicts?
We will discuss these and other topics with our guests.
We look forward to a lively participation!