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
Anime is on the rise. Translated manga are flooding into new markets, attracting readers from all over the world. But despite their remarkable popularity and sales, the inner workings of these dream factories are unknown, especially when it comes to the creators and their working [...]Read the full article
There are between 400,000 and 600,000 undocumented migrants in France. Most of them work. Through this photo report, these men and women share their daily realities.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
Since the controversial elections in August 2020 and the subsequent protest movement, and even more so since the beginning of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, the whole of civil society in Belarus has come under threat from the government of Alexander [...]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
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
Should going on holiday be a privilege? What is the value of the free time we have these days? Who benefits when travelling is cheap, whether it’s thanks to an abundance of available accommodation or a reduction in travel costs?Read the full article
While workplace childcare policies are relatively new in Bolivia, the country is making progress, for example by promoting breastfeeding rooms and day-care facilities. However, such policies are of little use when employers fail to respect labour [...]Read the full article
The boom in teleworking triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of mental health in the workplace and initial steps are being taken to change a work culture characterised by long hours in the office and low [...]Read the full article
Carlos Julio Díaz Lotero:A key task for those elected is to rethink the development model that has been pursued for over 30 years, with appalling results. If we succeed in turning trade union proposals into public policy, the principles of ever more decent work will become a [...]Read the full article
The social stigma attached to harassment is so deeply ingrained in the world of work that victims often prefer to remain anonymous and most cases go unreported. Employers are reluctant to hire victims of harassment, which makes it almost impossible for them to re-enter the labour [...]Read the full article
Owen Tudor:Ten years ago, the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted Convention 189 and Recommendation 201 on the rights of domestic workers. Since that ground-breaking step, 35 countries around the world have ratified C189, but only seven of them are in the Commonwealth, which covers a third of [...]Read the full article
Brazil’s Public Labour Prosecutor’s Office is fighting on all fronts to defend the country’s workers. At the centre of this battle, which has intensified since the onset of the pandemic, are the institution’s prosecutors. Since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power in 2018, they have been faced [...]Read the full article
Grygorii Osovyi:“In declaring, on the one hand, that human labour is a key resource, and starting a race to the bottom in their pursuit of the maximum reduction of labour rights, state intervention and social standards on the other, the authors of these draft laws are opening a Pandora’s [...]Read the full article
Protests, walk-outs and work stoppages from workers at some of Belarus’s biggest heavy industries played a key role in Belarus’s historic pro-democracy movement last August.Read the full article
Sharan Burrow:Around the world, and by several key measures, the latest ITUC Global Rights Index exposes just how widespread the deterioration of workers’ rights is.Read the full article
Amazon employees accuse the world leader in e-commerce of seeking to interfere in a ballot to form a union in the Bessemer warehouse in Alabama.Read the full article
In Lebanon, a country where the pandemic and the explosion at its main port have intensified an already deep economic crisis, child labour is an uncomfortable reality and the result of failed policies for the protection of children, both local and [...]Read the full article
The BPO sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the Caribbean, but decent jobs are often less of a concern than the number of jobs created.Read the full article
Hundred-and-fifty-tonne vessels will cross the oceans without a crew. Industrial cities dragging water like tectonic plates. Like metal spectres. That is the future of the maritime sector if we go by its own forecasts.Read the full article
The Indonesian government says the Omnibus Law will create more jobs, but labour and environmental activists warn that deregulation will lead to disaster for working people, environmental sustainability and democracy.Read the full article
“The Palestinian labour market continues to present a grim picture. Unemployment is rampant and protection is failing. Stifled by occupation, it can meet neither the needs nor the aspirations of the Palestinian people.”Read the full article
Hundreds of Nepalese workers who came to Romania to compensate for labour shortages caused by the emigration of Romanians to Western Europe face pay cuts, debt and abuse by recruitment agencies in addition to isolation and illness.Read the full article
“Workplaces in Pakistan are still unsafe as the government, the factory owners and the international brands have learnt nothing since the Ali Enterprises factory fire.”Read the full article
Jeff Vogt:The right to strike is perhaps more important during this emergency, in order to be recognised as a worker, to hold employers to account over failures to provide protective equipment, to contest sweeping layoffs or, as a last resort, to demand wages owed and other [...]Read the full article
Antonio Lisboa:Instead of the Brazilian government exercising its regulatory role, protecting workers, safeguarding incomes and ensuring the functioning of the economy, Bolsonaro has taken a criminal and negligent stance in combating the spread of [...]Read the full article
Three years after France passed a law aimed at preventing companies from hiding behind their status as buyers in the event of human or environmental rights violations, the legislation continues to raise hope among NGOs, at the same time as revealing its [...]Read the full article
Last November, the Vietnamese National Assembly took a long-awaited decision on a demand that came from both inside and outside the country: the authorisation of worker representative organisations from 2021. While it remains to be seen how this will be implemented, it is still a major [...]Read the full article
Eduardo Magaldi González:Trade unions used strikes and stoppages as their weapon of choice at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Today, in the collaborative economy, what we have is the ability to damage the image and reputation of digital [...]Read the full article
Evelyn Astor:“Financing social protection systems that are both adequate and sustainable is not a fantasy; it is merely a question of political will.”Read the full article
“HKCTU plays an important role and we are part of the movement, so in supporting the young protesters we are also supporting ourselves,” says Carol Ng, chairperson of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU).Read the full article
Ruwan Subasinghe:Without the right to strike workers will not be able to effectively demand investment in new green jobs, training, income protection and other necessary measures for a fair and just transition.Read the full article