“The fact that Turkey continues to buy plastic waste from the EU while producing so much plastic itself is due to the growth of the recycling sector. But there’s also another problem here. Research shows that only nine per cent of the plastic produced to date can be [...]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
Technology permeates our everyday lives. It creates new job opportunities but also new traps that perpetuate the precarious conditions of the most vulnerable workers.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
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
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
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
According to the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter, it’s time for a new agricultural revolution. The key idea, he says, is to use nature as an ally and to work with it, rather than treating it as a sort of animal that needs to be [...]Read the full article
This photo essay is an immersive insight into the transgender communities of Pondicherry and Tamil Nadu in southern India, a testament to the day-to-day struggles and resilience of transgender women.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
Despite facing racism and discrimination, close to 500,000 Haitian migrants try to survive in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican government has made the fight against undocumented migration one of its priorities.Read the full article
Home healthcare is a fast-growing sector in the United States, with a large percentage of women, minority and immigrant workers. However, the appreciation for such essential labour during the Covid-19 pandemic has not translated into acceptable pay and conditions, with many workers unable to [...]Read the full article
a cross-party alliance of Members of the European Parliament:Collective bargaining is essential. It’s time we ensured essential workers benefitted from it. We join over 100 MEPs across party lines to call for companies to only be awarded public contracts if they have implemented collective agreements. Here’s [...]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
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
Rising temperatures and adverse weather conditions affecting Europe made 2021 a particularly tough year for bees. The honey harvest has been badly hit. Pesticide poisoning and unfair competition from third countries are adding to the problems faced by [...]Read the full article
“If you protest on the job, if you demand your rights, they’ll tell you ‘If you don’t like it get out, I have 3,000 people out there who will do it for half the money.’”Read the full article
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the discrepancy between the pivotal social, economic and public health role of India’s sanitation workers and the fact that they “remain at the bottom of society”.Read the full article
“While there might be a recognition of the role that waste pickers play in urban systems now, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s actually translating into effective and inclusive policies.”Read the full article
Pakistan has one of the largest refugee populations in the world, and for decades, carpet weaving has been one of the few options available to Afghan women refugees who want to work.Read the full article
On the 10th anniversary of Spain’s citizen, anti-austerity movement 15M, the Spanish writer and activist Fernández-Savater takes stock of the Indignados.Read the full article
Young people aged between 15 and 24 are likely to experience the greatest difficulties in finding work in the years ahead. Their transition to their first job and, more generally, to making a life of their own is expected to take even [...]Read the full article
Since 2006, approximately 30,000 women have lost their jobs in large-scale, often multinational-owned, tea companies because of mechanisation.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 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