Sub-Saharan African workers in Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco face discrimination, exploitation and violent evictions.Read the full article
Despite the sheer scale of the informal economy hindering the financing of social protection, pragmatic solutions are being sought to ensure some kind of health cover for workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.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
The disintegration of Lebanon’s police force is undermining law and order in a country ravaged by crisis after crisis. Many of the non-governmental initiatives emerging to restore a sense of security on the streets are reminiscent of some of the dark chapters of the Lebanese civil [...]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
Like women, the elderly and people with mental health issues, the working poor and people with multiple jobs are also likely to sleep worse, wake up worse, make more mistakes and sustain more injuries.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
Fisherfolk in eastern Thailand have taken up the role of citizen scientists to document the long-lasting impacts of what is believed to be the biggest oil spill in the history of the country, and to obtain compensation from those [...]Read the full article
Administrative abuses, intimidation, economic insecurity – protecting workers in the informal economy is no easy task and many are often forced to rely on themselves when difficulties arise. The Trade Union Confederation of Congo (CSC) is choosing its battles carefully and doing its best to [...]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
There is no quick fix to the current aviation industry crisis
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
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
