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
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
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
Stijn Sintubin:
Now is the time to look closer than ever at how to improve the conditions for workers in global supply chains. The cost of decades of blind pursuit of profit has been paid for by the workers.Read the full article
Equal Times Newsdesk:
The crises the coronavirus has laid bare exist on multiple fronts: it is a crisis of inequality, of human rights, of who does and doesn’t have the right to freedom of movement, to healthcare and essentially, the right to life.Read the full article
Laëtitia Vitaud :
Craftsmanship is the exact opposite of the world of division of labour and subordination. There are several reasons to believe that craftsperson-like working conditions are set to dominate the future of work – and that we have everything to gain from [...]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
Maria Tsirantonaki:
This Labour Day the International Trade Union Confederation is launching a call for a New Social Contract. What does this mean for working women? In the aftermath of #MeToo, 2019 is shaping up to be a key year in tackling gender-based violence at [...]Read the full article
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