The Global Digital Workers Conference hosted a meeting between participants from more than five countries, according to El Salto. The Transnational Workers Network (TWN), the International Workers Network, has been presented at this conference. The initiative was born with the aim of defending the rights of taxi drivers and workers from companies using digital platforms. The initiative aims to increase the number of actors, trade unions and workers in these sectors so that they can subsequently develop relations between them.

The emergence of giant technologies and deregulation processes have led to the growth of transnational corporations and the deployment of the figure of the false self-employed. “These disruptive applications are introduced into the country and are trying to change the laws to impose their business model. This model is based on the precariousness of the State and the lack of payment of taxes ", explained Tito Álvarez, spokesperson and coordinator of the Taxi Project 2.0 project, one of the organizations that drives the global union from the Spanish State.

In addition to the taxi driver platform, they have also participated in the collective network of distributors of companies such as RidersxDerechos, Glovo or Deliveroo, Collectif des Livreurs Autonomes de Paris (clap), Mobile Workers Alliance (mwa) or Service Employees International Union (SEIU). According to the conference participants, it is intended to organize a “Personnel Unit” to define the strategic activity and propose proposals to structure labour rights. In short, according to Sonia Abellán, the aim is for the people affected by these practices to be "instruments to defend their rights" and "to confront the big companies of the so-called Gig economy using the same platform and strategy".

"This business model was presented to us as an innovator, but it is not so, because the forms of job precarization are not a new conflict, nor much less novel, although innovation is used as the main argument for distributors to be false self-employed," said Nuria Soto, of Fire XDerechos. In addition, Soto explained that these technologies are compatible with labor rights, referring to the experiences of distribution cooperatives that have used the same computer tools, and "we do not have to change the law to suit those companies, but enforce the law". Isabel Chacón, from Ekona, has argued that "digitalization does not have to be bad in itself, it is modernization, but those who dominate capital disguise their new labor exploitation under this modernization".

They have proposed a global solution to a global problem. These types of companies operate in the same way in all countries and local victories also have to be brought to a global strategy. "We have seen that when victories have been achieved at the state level, those countries have not made their journey beyond our borders, also in the countries of the European Union, where we have many similar laws, so that this work is lost and does not reach the other colleagues," Taxi Project regretted. Therefore, they consider that the joint struggle is "fundamental" and call any worker, platform, union or association to join the project. "In the fight against Uber we realized that with unity we can win the company giant," said Álvarez.