Shoprite uses private paramilitary security to intimidate workers
A heavy security presence has marked the Cape Town leg of a strike by Transpharm workers, led by the General Industrial Workers Union of South […]
Marginalised workers
The invisible workplace accident rate
Nurses providing hospital care, delivery people delivering food to homes, domestic workers cleaning hotel rooms, office workers accumulating overtime hours, waiters and waitresses taking on […]
UAWU strike continues despite no meeting with UCT
The leaders of the striking workers at the University of Cape Town are hopeful that their alliance with students will be beneficial to their demand […]
UAWU vow to intensify the strike for insourcing
The workers have been on strike for 2 weeks demanding to be insourced by the University of Cape Town.
Workers strike for insourcing by UCT
A group of about 50 workers, working at UCT but employed by ‘service providers’, took part in a strike to be insourced by the university.
Between high rates of HIV/AIDS and punitive new trafficking laws, India’s sex workers are struggling to assert their humanity
Gauri Dobe vividly remembers the last day of her childhood. It was a summer afternoon, and she had just finished devouring some mangoes. As she […]
Retraining and upskilling: solutions for the future of (human) work?
In three years’ time, 42 per cent of task hours will be performed by machines or algorithms and humans will take care of the remaining […]
As young Croatians head west, employers are looking to foreign and retired workers to tackle labour shortages
Wine is a family business for Toni Katunar. His family has been producing wine for decades, and their 20,000 vines are located on the paradise […]
Sowing seeds of resistance: the fight for food sovereignty in Palestine
This article is accompanied by a mini-documentary. Click here to watch. Food sovereignty in Palestine is inextricably linked to the fight for self-determination. Land dispossession in […]
In the United States, ‘click workers’ are struggling to make ends meet
Evan Hutchinson lives connected to his computer, day and night. At 27 years old, this Houston-based film graduate is what is known as a ‘click […]
In Albania, call centre workers are organising for better working conditions
In one of the few old houses still standing in central Tirana, a small courtyard covered with colourful posters of social struggles from around the […]
Ex-SAB workers demand unpaid benefits
Former SAB workers have vowed to continue with their struggle to get monies owed to them.
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