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No funds to re-employ EC Covid-19 healthcare workers

17th May 2022 Anele Mbi 0

With the end of the national state of disaster, the disastrous state of healthcare in the Eastern Cape as elsewhere in South Africa, continues.

Striking Clover workers picket outside parliament

14th Jan 2022 Mzi Velapi 0

Workers with more than 10 years of service at the dairy foods company paint it as exploitative and ruthless.

Brazil’s labour justice system is battling with growing rights violations

6th Dec 2021 Equal Times 0

“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. […]

Migrant truck drivers live in fear as government leads harassment campaign

1st Dec 2021 Joseph Chirume 0

The government-led clampdown on foreign drivers has created fear and insecurity among foreign drivers, both documented and undocumented.

Joburg waste pickers decry abuse while making ends meet

15th Nov 2021 Chris Gilili 0

Wastepickers get no help nor recognition from the City of Johannesburg which seems to try to take their livelihoods away from them.

Activists and union members march for Basic Income Grant

11th Nov 2021 Joseph Chirume 0

The Cry of the Xcluded demand a basic income grant of R1,500 which they say will meet the immediate needs of the unemployed.

No Sassa grants for careworkers in Gqeberha

18th Oct 2021 Joseph Chirume 0

The EC health department is accused of not opening vacancies for the permanent employment of community care workers.

For India’s stigmatised and exploited sanitation workers, the pandemic has only made conditions worse

21st Sep 2021 Equal Times 0

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 […]

Zimbabwe launches National Labour Migration Policy to help protect migrant workers

14th Sep 2021 Equal Times 0

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 […]

Minimum wage still not a living wage after increase

2nd Aug 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

Workers earning the minimum wage say that its increase earlier this year has not made life easier.

Clinical waste collectors – unprotected, untrained, underpaid and undervalued

21st Jul 2021 Equal Times 0

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

7th Jul 2021 Grace Carney 0

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.

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