Equal Times

11 July 2018

How collective action can bring about change to young urban women

Bridget Dedaa Amemfi: “Thanks to the mobilisation and awareness-building, we now have a group of young urban women ready to fight for change in their own communities.”Read the full article

4 July 2018

Environment

Ensuring a just transition

Sharan Burrow: “Nothing less than a transformation is needed on the environmental, the social and the economic front. There are promising signs.”Read the full article

6 June 2018

Politics & economy

Why economic migrants are heroes

Speranta Dumitru: Doing a great deal of good with very little means cannot be compulsory, but it is still highly praiseworthy.Read the full article

16 May 2018

Labour

Celebrating education’s unsung heroes

David Edwards: “Whether educators in their own right and interacting with students on a daily basis, or professionals that work ‘behind the scenes’ in education institutions, all ESP contribute to the provision of quality education.”Read the full article

10 May 2018

Labour

RecruitmentAdvisor: the new platform for fair recruitment and migrant worker empowerment

Jeroen Beirnaert : Recruitmentadvisor.org allows workers to connect and learn from each other’s experiences with recruitment agencies and employment abroad.Read the full article

4 May 2018

Human rights

2018 points to a new wave of citizen activism

Inés Pousadela: “Long used to the fact that rights and freedoms are never gained once and for all, progressive civil society has proved its determination not to let long-term gains slip away at the first unfortunate turn of [...]Read the full article

27 April 2018

Labour

Coming together for a safer Tesla on Workers’ Memorial Day

Branton Phillips: “The truth is that Tesla has had serious health and safety problems, and frontline workers like myself have been impacted by them in dangerous ways.”Read the full article

12 April 2018

Politics & economy

Are we finally seeing the end of water privatisations?

David Boys: A recent report published by Public Services International and the Transnational Institute shows that since 2000 there have been at least 235 cases of water remunicipalisation in 37 countries, affecting more than 100 million people. So what’s driving [...]Read the full article

4 April 2018

Labour

The call of the G20 and the response of the global trade union movement

Adolfo "Fito" Aguirre : “The current state of affairs requires workers from around the world to form a bloc and act together in the best interests of international labour. Rarely do our countries have common positions on the major debates of [...]Read the full article

23 March 2018

Labour

Three ways waste pickers can be included in the new circular economy

Sonia Dias: “In a handful of cities across the world, there are promising inclusive recycling experiences that can act as models for integrating waste pickers.”Read the full article

28 February 2018

Labour

Three ways in which blockchain is changing the world of work

Aida Ponce Del Castillo: These examples may be the first signs of things to come. Blockchain is redefining the notion of ‘trust’ and may one day redefine the notion of ‘work’.Read the full article

26 February 2018

Labour

US public employees mobilise as Supreme Court weighs union rights

Cathy Feingold: Janus is represented pro bono by a wealthy legal foundation with connections to funding by the notoriously anti-union Charles Koch Institute. Similar attempts to gut public employee unions also have been initiated and funded by other extreme [...]Read the full article

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