Therese Svanström:“In a globalised world, corporate operations extend across borders; therefore, trade union activities must do the same.”Read the full article
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 [...]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 [...]Read the full article
Dijana Šobota:Workers who more positively assess their level of being informed about workers’ rights are more likely to state that their rights have not been violated, while a higher incidence of violations of rights was recorded among those respondents who [...]Read the full article
Tamara Gausi:To round up the year, each Equal Times editor picks the stories that have stayed in their heart and mind, long after publication.Read the full article
Atahualpa Blanchet:“The declaration by Mercosur human rights ministers on artificial intelligence stands as a guiding light in the search for a fair balance between technological innovation and the protection of [...]Read the full article
Martin Léna:“The solutions we seek to provide to the climate crisis must not and cannot be disconnected from social justice and human rights. Those who are most vulnerable to climate change, and who are also the least responsible for it, are equally [...]Read the full article
Pamela Morinière:“Being recognised as an author should not be the exclusive privilege of creative writers, especially against a backdrop of fake news, where a journalist’s signature is a guarantee of quality and [...]Read the full article
Laurie Parsons:“Contemporary global supply chains increase environmental risks through greenhouse-gas emissions while siphoning off the resources needed to deal with them. Rather than environmental progress, this is environmental [...]Read the full article
Loredana Carta:“The ITUC Global Rights Index is now, more than ever, a powerful force to build a better world for working people. It has been used to force governments to improve workers’ right in return for international loans, trade unions have used the Index [...]Read the full article
Mohammad Al Maita:From the point of view of trade unions, which play a crucial role in defending the rights and welfare of all workers, including refugees, the refugee situation in Jordan presents unique challenges and [...]Read the full article
Enis Coşkun:On 14 May, the people of Turkey will elect their president and members of parliament. A hundred years after the foundation of a secular state under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal, these elections are crucial to the country’s [...]Read the full article
Abdeslam Marfouk:Despite the increase in absolute terms, the number of international migrants is still a very small fraction of the world population: 3.6 per cent in 2020, compared to 2.5 per cent in 1960. This means that 97 out of every 100 people in the world [...]Read the full article
Ira Rachmawati:Recruitment Advisor has been actively used as an organising tool by unions to reach out to migrant workers and build trust. In addition, unions that utilise the platform have been able to increase cooperation with other unions in origin or [...]Read the full article
Aimée-Noël Mbiyozo:While the world focuses on Ukraine, unprecedented funding shortages and shrinking migration pathways leave Africans stranded.Read the full article
Tuscany Bell:“Long-term care facilities are subsidised to a large extent by public money. When financial risks aimed solely at increasing profitability do not pay off, it is the state which must ultimately step in to ensure the welfare of care recipients, [...]Read the full article
Owen Tudor:“Under incredibly difficult circumstances, and frequently at great personal risk, trade unionists have been delivering humanitarian assistance and working to keep the economy, especially vital services, [...]Read the full article
Maeve O’Sullivan:The world is reeling from recent tech job losses and the global recession. But Ireland is well positioned to respond to these challenges if it can address its labour market inequality.Read the full article
Livia Spera:“Profit-focused policies have only led to a transport industry defined by poor wages and poor working conditions, as the skyrocketing profits of companies mean that transport workers are the ones paying the [...]Read the full article
Sharan Burrow:“Working people are clear in their demands. They know that the answer is a new social contract based on climate-friendly jobs, rights, wages, social protection, equality and inclusion.”Read the full article
Selma Dabbagh:“Today, on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Committed Against Journalists, we at the ICJP are calling for all crimes against journalists to be investigated. Impunity for must end and justice must be [...]Read the full article
Bert De Wel:Deciding on a finance mechanism to deal with the immense human and economic impact of the climate crisis in the Global South is one of the most important critical objectives of COP27. At the pre-COP in Kinshasa, countries made some progress on [...]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, [...]Read the full article
Dimitra Koutouzi:EUROMIL is advocating for the promotion of sustainable practices in the military sector, the proper training of troops and the total understanding that the defence sector can significantly contribute in the fight against climate [...]Read the full article
Nea Pakarinen:If planned with care and co-created with citizens, nature-based solutions can be a revolutionary way to change our urban environments to be more sustainable and inclusive.Read the full article
Emmanuel Jacob:If we want to implement and respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, and if we want to respect social rights for military personnel, associations and trade unions have an essential role to play. So why do so many political and military [...]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
Sharan Burrow:The 2022 ITUC Global Rights Index reveals a dire situation for working people across the world. We must reverse this trend.Read the full article
Niro Kandasamy:Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since independence, and the responses of the state indicate it is incapable of protecting its citizens.Read the full article
Arnaud Zacharie:The existential crisis facing the WTO, which is holding its 12th ministerial conference from 12 to 15 June, is an opportunity to reform it to make world trade more consistent with sustainable development [...]Read the full article
Annie Game:We need to value and support the critical work of journalists countering the mis- and disinformation flooding our communications channels, especially during crises, conflicts, and elections. The good news is that when the media and civil society [...]Read the full article
Cathy Feingold:As players from the US and around the world prepare for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, FIFA must improve its track record of turning a blind eye to authoritarians and ‘sportswashing’ human rights [...]Read the full article
Christy Hoffman:The broken global long-term care system can be repaired, and worker power is a fundamental part of the solution. The pandemic has proven this.Read the full article
Angélique Katani Kipulu:Every day we can see them in the markets and on the streets making a living without decent working conditions. These women are the backbone of our economy and our communities, but they remain invisible, marginalised and often [...]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. [...]Read the full article
Eduardo Magaldi González:Collective bargaining is once again at the centre of the settlement of industrial relations thanks to the labour reform recently passed by the Spanish parliament.Read the full article
Annie Sparrow:“The substandard, get-by-on-the-cheap procedures that the Chinese government and the IOC have instituted for the Beijing Olympics risk lowering global standards for everyone. It is unlikely that only athletes will pay the [...]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 [...]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 [...]Read the full article
Rachel Moussié :“Understanding how some workers face overlapping systems of discrimination will be key to finding effective Covid-19 response measures.”Read the full article
Francisco Mora:“December 2021. That’s the last date when the buses I have been working in and around my whole life will be phased out, for a new generation of all-electric ones. That is also the date I will lose my job, just three years short of retirement and [...]Read the full article
Manuella Libardi:Given the amount of research that shows how ineffective punitive laws are in curbing the number of abortions women carry out, it is difficult to imagine any other reason that they exist, other than to keep women out of the workforce and in [...]Read the full article
Rikio Kozu:As the national centre of the only country that has suffered from A-bomb attacks, JTUC-RENGO will continue to do its utmost to arouse public opinion toward the abolition of nuclear weapons.Read the full article
Jo Becker:“The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures affecting 1.4 billion children, has pushed countless children into exploitative and dangerous child [...]Read the full article
Mavis A. Koogotsitse :“Solidarity needs to move decisively beyond statements. We need to put pressure on key actors to isolate King Mswati III along with his cronies and their unregulated capitalism, and expose them. Companies that have colluded with the king’s [...]Read the full article
Helen Clark:We need to revisit the thinking of the Palme Commission, and recall the founding precept of the International Labour Organization: that there can be no peace without social justice, and no social justice without [...]Read the full article