Giulio Romani:“The ETUC demands that asylum-seekers should have the right to work in all member states. Trade unions and employers should work together to ensure decent employment conditions, essential to building solidarity between workers and equal opportunities and treatment for [...]Read the full article
Therese Svanström:“In a globalised world, corporate operations extend across borders; therefore, trade union activities must do the same.”Read the full article
Until the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greek athletes had world-class funding, trainers and facilities. This golden age ended when the economic crisis broke out and the Greek government cut funding to sport. What does this mean for promising young athletes like wrestler Nikoleta [...]Read the full article
Veronica Nilsson:“A commitment made by representatives of 40 national governments will not on its own end the global healthcare workforce crisis. But ministers and officials have made that positive commitment and we should hold them to account and work with them to achieve [...]Read the full article
Ronald Janssen:“Strong wage formation institutions together with robust social dialogue allow workers to catch up with inflation by bargaining for higher wages and, more generally, to negotiate a fair sharing of the cost-of-living crisis. It is shocking to observe that in 2022 top CEOs benefitted from [...]Read the full article
Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde:Global military spending has continued to rise for the eighth year in a row. Seen from a traditional state security perspective – which generally assumes that more weapons means more security – this could be interpreted as good news. But is [...]Read the full article
Daniel Kostzer:“The response to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse are both powerful examples of the underlying logic of capitalism, that a bank can be bailed out in a matter of hours but during the Covid-19 pandemic it took most governments several months before deciding to intervene to [...]Read the full article
Nadja Salson:The use of consultancies often goes unnoticed because it is seen as a transfer from the public to the private sector that also generates jobs. The fact that they provide much more than advice is raising concerns about transparency, accountability and the cost of public [...]Read the full article
When excessive levels of debt are reached, the dialogue between creditors and debtors is often broken. In Belgium, debt mediators are at hand to re-establish this dialogue and enable both parties to reach an agreement.Read the full article
Nicolás Sartorius:This health, economic and social pandemic has shown the need for strengthened welfare states, and the political risks associated with weakening them, as well the need to build welfare states where they do not exist in order to avoid permanent conflicts and the crisis of dislocated [...]Read the full article
The billions that the most powerful corporations avoid paying in taxes are crucial for a just economic recovery in the post-pandemic era. The G20’s stance on global tax justice will be decisive in turning the tide.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
In a country where the need for education is enormous and families have little income, the idea of tuition-free schooling should enjoy unanimous support. Instead, the government’s initiative has been met with strikes. Parents and teachers are concerned about the conditions under which the [...]Read the full article
Robert Maisey:This cosy relationship between private companies and government, leveraging a national crisis to facilitate an accelerated transfer of wealth from public to private, can only be given one name: corruption.Read the full article
Tamara Muñoz:In the 25 October referendum, 78 per cent of voters opted to ‘approve’. On the horizon is the drafting of a new constitution that will replace the one inherited from Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.Read the full article
Thanks to its constant motion, its excesses and its contradictions, the city of Kinshasa is a true source of inspiration for Congolese artists, but few manage to make a living from their art.Read the full article
Hard hit by the pandemic, artists and culture workers in Athens are mobilising locally and nationally to stand up for their rights and for their place in society.Read the full article
Since the COVID-19 outbreak began, people everywhere have been spending a lot more time in their homes, thinking about how and where they want to live. In the Netherlands, this retrospection is having a positive impact on the burgeoning tiny house [...]Read the full article
The governments of Europe are trying to maintain employment even if it means that the states themselves assume payment of a portion of salaries. Will they be able to save millions of families from ruin? What formula is being developed by the EU [...]Read the full article
Lara Merling:The support of the World Bank and IMF for action on debt burdens and immediate crisis response measures is welcome, but does not indicate a significant shift away from the austerity, privatisation and deregulation that has increased inequality and failed to produce sustained [...]Read the full article
“Covid-19 has shown us that we do not need to rethink the values of the Italian National Health Service but to implement them, revising the roles of the national and regional governments, and linking health expenditure to the needs of the [...]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
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky:Can international financial institutions be deemed responsible for the human rights violations spawned by the austerity measures they advocate?Read the full article
“Sometimes, I tell the children: there’s nothing to eat. And they’re getting used to it. It’s awful, and it makes me angry. But I don’t want to fall apart, for their sake.”Read the full article
The only European country where homelessness is on decline, Finland has pioneered an approach to housing that asserts everyone has the right to a roof over their head.Read the full article
In 2019, you no longer have to hang from scaffolding to risk your life while at work. Precariousness, stress and overwork can make you sick, and even kill you, at a much higher rate than workplace accidents.Read the full article
“Sustainable security and safety are always only ever achieved by good urban design, with involvement from the community and stakeholders.”Read the full article
Argentina, in the midst of economic turmoil compounded by the highest interest rates in the world and the insistence on pressing ahead with failed policies, is heading towards a presidential election marked by socio-economic strife, political polarisation and a range of [...]Read the full article
We sell our time to our bosses, we use it to pay the bills, for our food and little luxuries. We do not lose time, we waste it or sell it for less than it is worth. At times, in return for inadequate wages. At others, in exchange for precarious, irregular hours of work that are difficult to [...]Read the full article
It has been two years since 72 people lost their lives following a fire at Grenfell Tower in London, but survivors and families of the bereaved still have very few answers.Read the full article
Emerging as a powerful campaigner in this election, the Australian trade union movement is calling on Australians to vote to “change the rules” in favour of workers.Read the full article
Luca Visentini:The outcome of the elections will dictate whether the EU will make progress towards greater social equality and cohesion, or start to break up under the weight of national self-interests and xenophobia.Read the full article
Mayra Castro :In his first four months in government, Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, has adopted measures that have thrown Brazil’s fulfilment of the Agenda 2030 goals off track.Read the full article
Leo Baunach:There is a crisis of multilateralism, rooted in decades of rising inequality and the favouring of profits over people. If changes are not made, the crisis of multilateralism will worsen and the ground on which the Bank stands will [...]Read the full article
Carmen Vizán Rodríguez:The decline in the labour share in the economy, linked to the shrinking of the state, globalisation, financialisation, technological change, corporate concentration and the fall in workers’ bargaining power, has major socioeconomic and political [...]Read the full article
Miguel Ángel Martínez del Arco:The social and solidarity economy is a phenomenon that is gaining traction throughout the EU and the rest of the world. Although the 2008 global crisis has played a part in its progress, its origins date back to the mid-19th [...]Read the full article
Martine Kaluszynski:In France, after several attacks and the increase in the number of prisoners who follow radical Islam, striking prison guards are denouncing their working conditions, which they consider outdated and, above all, dangerous.Read the full article
Between a lack of investment and chronic corruption, Ukraine’s healthcare system has deteriorated significantly in recent years. For many Ukrainians – especially those with modest incomes – the best option is simply not to get sick.Read the full article
In France, the high proportion of women amongst the ‘yellow vests’ protesters reminds us that this particular group of workers turn the wheels of essential services, such as health and education. They represent the ignored power of the social [...]Read the full article
Suraiya Zubair Banu:“For those of us who are not Sudanese or who live outside Sudan, the uprisings might seem hard to reach. But some of the tools we need to practice solidarity are already in our grasp.”Read the full article
Philip Jennings:There is nothing complacent in the tone of the ILO Global Commission’s report on the future of work. Rejecting business as usual, it sows the seeds of hope for working people. The time has come for a reinvigorated social contract.Read the full article
Sylvia Kay:The consequences of eight years of savage cuts will be felt for decades to come: food insecurity and rural unemployment are just two examples.Read the full article
“We were amateurs. We didn’t really know what we were doing. We were just trying to get more information about what is happening in the shipyard and share it with other workers.”Read the full article
The tax reform, presented by the Executive in September and approved by Congress in early December, led to a three-month strike in the public sector, most notably in education. In the spotlight: the right to strike and the ‘brushing aside’ of social [...]Read the full article