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In Ecuador, abaca workers are demanding justice and an end to 60 years of modern-day slavery

23rd Feb 2021 Equal Times 0

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

18th Feb 2021 Equal Times 0

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 […]

South Asia’s migrant workers are facing a jobs crisis both at home and abroad

15th Feb 2021 Equal Times 0

In February 2020, PK Valsala, a 45-year-old single woman from Kerala, south India, went to Oman to start a job as a domestic worker. She […]

The army’s encroachment on the civilian economy is costing Egyptian workers dearly

8th Feb 2021 Equal Times 0

Their faces marked by exhaustion and sadness, thousands of Delta fertilizer company employees continue with their sit-in protest against the decision taken by the Dakahlia […]

The fight for safe rates for transportation workers in South Korea

20th Jan 2021 Equal Times 0

In the past decade, South Korea has emerged as one of East Asia’s most advanced digital economies, with e-commerce, ride-hailing, and other services all growing. […]

Why the Omnibus Law is not only an assault on workers’ rights but also on Indonesia’s SDG progress

8th Dec 2020 Equal Times 0

Besides a raging Covid-19 pandemic that has seen Indonesia produce the second highest confirmed death toll in Asia after India, widespread opposition to President Joko […]

Go-Bet closure leaves 130 workers jobless

2nd Dec 2020 Mzi Velapi 0

The union representing the Go-Bet workers says it wants the workers to be preferred creditors as the company still owes them their Covid relief money.

Caught between military occupation and unemployment, Palestinians continue to work in the Israeli economy without full labour rights

27th Nov 2020 Equal Times 0

It is four in the morning and heavy rain washes the deserted alleys of the village of Al Midiah, west of Ramallah. A white minibus […]

Community healthcare workers march for a minimum wage of R12,500

26th Nov 2020 Lilita Gcwabe 0

As the outcry by thousands of care workers whose bodies continue to be on the frontline against covid-19 gets louder around the country, their conditions of work remain unchanged.

Dismissed workers not happy with CCMA outcome

24th Nov 2020 Joseph Chirume 0

The workers claim that the CCMA commissioner refused to accept their evidence.

Domestic workers caught between a rock and a hard place

10th Nov 2020 Jonathan Grossman 0

Covid-19 and lockdown have made working conditions for domestic worker worse.

In a time of global crises, waste workers are our unsung heroes

29th Oct 2020 Equal Times 0

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. […]

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