Richard Darlington: There has never been a greater need for trade unions and civil society to shine a light on the governments and business practices in countries that are generating vast wealth, but which also play host to the most inequality in the world.

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Cathy Feingold: How can unions identify country-specific problems as they build alternative models for representing workers, or build worker power in an innovative way?

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  Hopes for free and fair elections to return to democracy in Fiji are fading fast following the rejection of constitutional reform by the military regime and continuing repression of workers’ rights. Any pretence that next year’s election will usher … Continued

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  1 May, International Workers’ Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognised in most countries. Despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States – linked to the … Continued

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Mojibur Rahman Bhuiyan: The basic problem is that employers are more powerful than the administration, but they do not care about the welfare of their workers

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