Equal Times - Tamara Gausi

22 December 2023

Goodbye 2023: our recommended Equal Times reads of the year

Tamara Gausi: To round up the year, each Equal Times editor picks the stories that have stayed in their heart and mind, long after [...]Read the full article

28 August 2023

Culture

Culture is resistance: from hip hop at 50 to Indigenous sexual identity in the face of ‘pink capitalism’

“As centuries of conquest have shown, once the land has been conquered and the people uprooted, once new rulers, laws and languages have been [...]Read the full article

21 August 2023

Human rights

Ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which humans and whose rights still matter?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – a landmark, post-Second World War commitment to the fundamental human rights and freedoms of all [...]Read the full article

Celebrating 10 years of worker-powered global news at Equal Times – and here's to many more years of quality journalism

18 November 2022

Labour

Celebrating 10 years of worker-powered global news at Equal Times – and here’s to many more years of quality journalism

Tamara Gausi: As Equal Times turns 10 years old, its editors reflect on the online news platform’s past, present and future.Read the full article

Mike Bonile Sikani: “For South African workers, health and safety is key to a just transition”

12 December 2018

Environment

Mike Bonile Sikani: “For South African workers, health and safety is key to a just transition”

“The primary occupation of these corporations is the security of their goods, not the health and safety of the workers or environmental [...]Read the full article

7 December 2018

Labour

Working Without Pay in Zimbabwe [video]

“What should I do? Stay at home and starve?” – wage theft leaves Zimbabwe's workers with an impossible dilemma

7 December 2018

Labour

“What should I do? Stay at home and starve?” – wage theft leaves Zimbabwe’s workers with an impossible dilemma

“If workers don’t have organisations that are going to help them, who is going to do collective bargaining for them?”Read the full article

Transition is a given, but what can trade unions in the Global South do to ensure that it's just?

30 November 2018

Environment

Transition is a given, but what can trade unions in the Global South do to ensure that it’s just?

“A just transition is not the end goal; it’s the process.”Read the full article

Vicente Posada Unay Jr: “How can you genuinely create green jobs without talking to the unions?”

30 November 2018

Environment

Vicente Posada Unay Jr: “How can you genuinely create green jobs without talking to the unions?”

“The privatisation of the power industry is one of the biggest barriers to the government’s commitment to reduce carbon [...]Read the full article

From the boardroom to the factory floor, trade union women say “nothing about us without us”

23 November 2018

Labour

From the boardroom to the factory floor, trade union women say “nothing about us without us”

“Our movement is full of strong feminist women who have organised and pushed for change.”Read the full article

14 November 2018

Labour

Count Us In! Women leading change

Women’s inspirational leadership has built bridges across unions and between like-minded civil society groups, delivering sustainable change for [...]Read the full article

Congolese trade unionist Joséphine Shimbi Umba: “We say 'protect the workers', but which workers are we talking about if only 2.5 per cent have formal jobs?”

10 October 2018

Labour

Congolese trade unionist Joséphine Shimbi Umba: “We say ’protect the workers’, but which workers are we talking about if only 2.5 per cent have formal jobs?”

“You have to be able to show informal workers the concrete benefits that come from being a part of a trade union.”Read the full article

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