Community care workers on strike for permanent jobs
Community healthcare workers are on the frontline in the battle against the covid-19 pandemic, yet in the Eastern Cape are still ‘volunteers’.
Labour
Domestic workers caught between a rock and a hard place
Covid-19 and lockdown have made working conditions for domestic worker worse.
Child labour rife in Zimbabwe
The high levels of poverty in Zimbabwe are pushing children into working to survive.
Trade unions and civil society are pushing for ambitious climate action in Scotland
As Glasgow prepares to host COP26, the UN climate summit in November 2021, Scotland will take centre stage in the global power struggle surrounding if […]
Retail employees humiliated by boss’s daughter demand compensation
Women employed by a prominent flower retail business in Port Elizabeth who were humiliated in September by the boss’s daughter want the company to compensate […]
In a time of global crises, waste workers are our unsung heroes
If the global fight against Covid-19 made one thing clear, it is society’s complete dependency on essential workers, and the risks involved in these professions. […]
Education department mum on youth pay
School patrollers and covid-19 brigades say they have not been paid for the past three months.
Eight years after the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Pakistan, victims and their families are still fighting for justice
On 22 September 2020, almost exactly eight years after Pakistan’s worst industrial fire officially killed 264 garments workers and injured over 60 others in the commercial capital […]
Home-based workers want protection
Heavily affected by the lockdown due to the covid-19 pandemic, home-based workers have not enjoyed what little relief government has provided.
Grooms dismissed from PE race course charge ward councillor for running security business from public office
Hysterical reports of the protest in the mainstream media claimed the dismissed grooms had stabbed and maimed horses.
Casual workers bearing the brunt of Covid-19 and lockdown
The pandemic has targeted the vulnerable in society, and the economic fallout is hurting the ‘precariat’ the most.
Federations unite against corruption, poverty and austerity
On World Day For Decent Work, trade union federations in South Africa declared a national strike against the winds of austerity blowing out the national treasury.
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