Sharan Burrow:The 2022 ITUC Global Rights Index reveals a dire situation for working people across the world. We must reverse this trend.Read the full article
Poland has closed two-thirds of its mines over the last 30 years, reducing the number of jobs in the sector from 300,000 to 80,000. The energy transition raises both hopes and fears. While miners understand the need for change, they fear for their future and the future of their [...]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
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
Waste pickers call for their voices to be heard in negotiations for a global treaty on plastics that some compare to the Paris climate agreement.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
Although the concept of ’decent work’ is gaining ground, the recent coup d’état and military takeover, in addition to ongoing insecurity in the country, magnified by chronic food crises linked to climate change, will not facilitate the task at [...]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
Today, it is hard to imagine a world without the internet, so much so that many are calling for internet access to be recognised as a universal and inalienable human right. Those opposed to the idea, however, warn that it is a source of [...]Read the full article
Rejimon Kuttappan:There are an estimated nine million Indian migrants in the Middle East region. In his new book, journalist and researcher Rejimon Kuttappan sheds light on the lives and struggles of some of those trapped by the kafala system.Read the full article