Minimum wage still not a living wage after increase
Workers earning the minimum wage say that its increase earlier this year has not made life easier.
Marginalised workers
Clinical waste collectors – unprotected, untrained, underpaid and undervalued
It was an accident that could have been avoided. While a waste collector was incinerating infectious waste at Connaught Hospital, Sierra Leone’s principal adult referral […]
Restaurant workers in the US call for $15 an hour minimum wage
Despite the promise by President Biden that the minimum wage will be gradually increased to $15 an hour by 2025, workers feel that it has to be done now.
Surviving lockdown as migrants living in SA
On Africa Day, migrants from the other parts of the continent based in South Africa talk about the hardships they continue to endure under Covid-19 and the lockdown.
Justice delayed again for assaulted farmworker
Violence on South African farms is endemic and farmworkers all too commonly are the victims.
Joburg wastepickers against “recycling levy”
The formalisation of recycling in Joburg city looks to sideline the people who have been doing the work informally all along.
Covid-19 makes a bad situation worse for agricultural migrant workers in Canada
Maria Lopez begged to get time off to go to church for Christmas. She had worked for months as a packer in a greenhouse in […]
EPWP workers in East London demand better working conditions
The EPWP workers have vowed to fight until their demands are met.
“A year of trauma” – community careworkers
Community health workers keep on delivering services to communities against many odds, while burdened by the loss of colleagues to Covid-19.
Is the Jamaican government giving BPO investors the “green light to disregard labour laws”?
With tens of thousands of jobs linked to the tourism sector lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Jamaican government has heralded the island’s fast-expanding […]
In Ecuador, abaca workers are demanding justice and an end to 60 years of modern-day slavery
In December 2003, after 30 years spent labouring on an abaca plantation, Susana Quiñonez finally summoned the courage to demand better working conditions from her […]
In Kenya, women bear the brunt as mechanisation wipes out tea sector jobs
On a cool Tuesday evening in Kapkugerwet village in Kenya’s Kericho County, Lucy Cheres puts a tea basket on her hunched back and heads out […]
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