Luc Triangle:“This May Day we must remember what trade unions have done for democracy in the past, and harness the collective power of trade unions to defend and rebuild democracy now and in the future.”Read the full article
“In North Macedonia, hundreds of factories make clothes and shoes for Europe’s big brands. It is no secret how harsh the working conditions are in these factories, but the widespread violations of the labour law have long gone unchallenged.”Read the full article
“As these flashpoints become increasingly the norm, [global] companies should be using their agility to deal with these crises in a way that improves supply chain resiliency and workers’ ability to make a living safely. When there is a dent to profits, the go-to should not be that suppliers, and [...]Read the full article
Gerardo Martínez:“The measures [against labour and trade union rights], which the current government has implemented unilaterally and without any consultation with social actors and representatives, ignore the tradition of institutionalised social dialogue that has been part of our country’s democratic [...]Read the full article
The Egyptian government is launching a plan to “export Egyptians abroad” in order to increase remittances from Egyptian expatriates, which have become the country’s number one source of foreign currency.Read the full article
Atahualpa Blanchet:Platform cooperativism represents more than just an alternative employment model: it also offers a vision of hope for building a more equitable and participatory world of work in the digital age.Read the full article
Given how underresearched menopause is, we are yet to see what impact rising global temperatures will have on women, particularly for the 47 per cent of women participating in the global labourforce. But limited research and anecdotal feedback suggests that “pollution and menopause may [...]Read the full article
Dijana Šobota:Workers who more positively assess their level of being informed about workers’ rights are more likely to state that their rights have not been violated, while a higher incidence of violations of rights was recorded among those respondents who felt that their level of being informed was [...]Read the full article
Tens of thousands of nurses, nursing assistants and other hospital staff in Cameroon face precarious socio-professional conditions. While many have worked for the state for almost ten years, they are not part of the civil service and lack employment contracts. Some work without salaries, while [...]Read the full article
Luc Triangle:“Most poor people in the world work. The systematic attacks on unions significantly reduces the ability of working people to secure and defend decent wages. Wages are not a neat calculation based on supply and demand and the price of labour; they are born from a bargaining [...]Read the full article
“Although they were inspired by the success of the Bangladesh Accord that followed the devastating collapse of the Rana Plaza factory complex in 2013, what sets the Lesotho agreements apart is that they were the first to incorporate International Labour Organization Convention 190 (C190), a [...]Read the full article
Pamela Morinière:“Being recognised as an author should not be the exclusive privilege of creative writers, especially against a backdrop of fake news, where a journalist’s signature is a guarantee of quality and professionalism.”Read the full article
Loredana Carta:“The ITUC Global Rights Index is now, more than ever, a powerful force to build a better world for working people. It has been used to force governments to improve workers’ right in return for international loans, trade unions have used the Index for targeted action to force legislative change [...]Read the full article
Between 2,500 and 3,000 workers have come together to file a case in Scotland against James Finlay Kenya, accusing the company of creating the terrible working conditions that have caused them life-limiting musculoskeletal injuries.Read the full article
Ira Rachmawati:Recruitment Advisor has been actively used as an organising tool by unions to reach out to migrant workers and build trust. In addition, unions that utilise the platform have been able to increase cooperation with other unions in origin or destination [...]Read the full article
Hawkers in the state of Meghalaya in north-east India have been successful in ensuring that an unfavourable state law is repealed and a more progressive national law is adopted.Read the full article
While Moroccan legislation guarantees a number of individual freedoms and social rights, including freedom of association, workers who make too many demands are likely to face harsh reprisals.Read the full article
“There was a turning point around 2015 when the general public started becoming aware of problems in the industry. We began to realise that if we wanted our industry to work well we needed unions.”Read the full article
Cameroon is one of Africa’s most successful footballing nations. But away from the spotlight of the country’s celebrated national team, local players face exploitation and precarious conditions. They are underpaid and lack social security while the clubs they play for act with [...]Read the full article
Former housekeeper Rachel Keke entered politics following a successful battle to defend the labour rights of chambermaids in the hotel industry. Now a deputy in the French National Assembly, Keke continues to fight for the rights of essential [...]Read the full article
South Africa’s domestic work sector has long been characterised by a high degree of informality and poor adherence to labour regulations.Read the full article
Sharan Burrow:“Working people are clear in their demands. They know that the answer is a new social contract based on climate-friendly jobs, rights, wages, social protection, equality and inclusion.”Read the full article
“Rather than universal systems of care, what we have is a chain of precariousness, with some women paying other women what they can to care for their children.”Read the full article
For the past five years, workers in Latin America’s largest country have faced job insecurity, rising unemployment and weakened trade unions.Read the full article
For most young Italians, working without protection or union rights, the job market, far from being a means of emancipation or personal fulfilment, is a jungle where the employer is king.Read the full article
Walton Pantland:Multinational corporations dominate the global economy, but labour laws exist at national level, with no international body to defend workers from violations in supply chains. How do we seek justice and remedy for the world’s [...]Read the full article
Emmanuel Jacob:If we want to implement and respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, and if we want to respect social rights for military personnel, associations and trade unions have an essential role to play. So why do so many political and military leaders refuse the right of [...]Read the full article
In an interview with Equal Times, Patah discusses the conditions that digital platform workers in Brazil face, particularly the country’s nearly 300,000 motoboys and the options available to unions for organising these workers.Read the full article
Eoin Coates:Social dialogue and collective bargaining are needed in every airport and with every airline to ensure working conditions improve across the industry and that cabin crew, pilots and ground handling workers are paid the wages they are [...]Read the full article
The right to strike in Hungary was repeatedly restricted, particularly in the public sector, during the last term of office of the nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán, who was elected for the fourth time in a row in April [...]Read the full article
Hundreds of dockworkers at Greece’s largest port are demanding better working conditions and a new collective agreement. Ever since the Chinese state-owned enterprise COSCO became the majority owner of the Piraeus Port Authority, workers there have had fewer rights and [...]Read the full article
Valerio De Stefano:The metaverse has been talked about only in terms of gee-whiz technologies – but it raises very serious labour concerns.Read the full article
In the DRC, slaughterhouses lack the equipment required to ensure that the cows slaughtered there are in good health, which poses a danger to both consumers and slaughterhouse workers.Read the full article
Teleworking has expanded rapidly and haphazardly due to the pandemic. The risks include teleworking being confused with work-life balance and certain costs being placed on workers.Read the full article
Saleemul Huq, the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, and Swedish business minister Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson both believe that the transition to a low-carbon company should not leave fossil fuel workers [...]Read the full article
The same gig economy that promises flexibility to women workers also compels them to work beyond their capacity to break even. Despite the veneer of modernity, the gig economy is no better than the traditional labour market for India’s working [...]Read the full article
Producing electric vehicles requires fewer jobs than combustion engines, creating a challenge for European workers. In large car-producing countries such as Slovakia and Czechia, unions are working to ensure a just transition for [...]Read the full article
“During Covid, the government provided support for the formal sector, but the informal sector had nothing: construction, brick kilns, nothing. This is inhumane.”Read the full article
Domestic work in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the main source of employment for thousands of people, mainly women living in extreme poverty.Read the full article
Quality education requires significant investments, above all in human resources. For years, Nigerien trade unions have condemned the widespread use of contractualisation, which makes teachers’ work more precarious and negatively impacts student [...]Read the full article
Eduardo Magaldi González:Collective bargaining is once again at the centre of the settlement of industrial relations thanks to the labour reform recently passed by the Spanish parliament.Read the full article
After years of setbacks for civil society in both countries, these victories have helped to reinvigorate their respective labour movements. The ability to maintain pressure over long periods of time, build broad-based coalitions, and use legal channels proved key, and labour leaders in India [...]Read the full article
Svitlana Iukhymovych :Chronic informality and gender inequity have paved the way for the platform economy’s current success in Ukraine.Read the full article
“Employers have taken advantage of the coup to overthrow the unions. They are violating labour rights, cutting wages, forcing workers to work and violating all previous labour agreements.”Read the full article
In Turkey, tech companies are pushing back hard against any attempts to unionise, to prevent riders from being able to demand basic labour rights.Read the full article
“Decent work is the only sustainable way to accelerate the growth of production and employment, to increase the pace of poverty reduction, and to build genuine democracy and social cohesion in South Africa.”Read the full article