
No funds to re-employ EC Covid-19 healthcare workers
With the end of the national state of disaster, the disastrous state of healthcare in the Eastern Cape as elsewhere in South Africa, continues.
With the end of the national state of disaster, the disastrous state of healthcare in the Eastern Cape as elsewhere in South Africa, continues.
Workers with more than 10 years of service at the dairy foods company paint it as exploitative and ruthless.
“It was chaos,” says Nilzete, a nurse at Souza Aguiar Hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Twenty-three years of experience had not prepared her for this. […]
The government-led clampdown on foreign drivers has created fear and insecurity among foreign drivers, both documented and undocumented.
Wastepickers get no help nor recognition from the City of Johannesburg which seems to try to take their livelihoods away from them.
The Cry of the Xcluded demand a basic income grant of R1,500 which they say will meet the immediate needs of the unemployed.
The EC health department is accused of not opening vacancies for the permanent employment of community care workers.
It is barely 5am and Borun Haari* is already out on the streets of Kolkata, pushing his waste handcart. A door-to-door garbage collector and street […]
Although there is no reliable data, with an estimated 4 to 7 million people living outside of the country, Zimbabwe has one of the highest […]
Workers earning the minimum wage say that its increase earlier this year has not made life easier.
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 […]
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.