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.
Marginalised workers
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 […]
South Asia’s migrant workers are facing a jobs crisis both at home and abroad
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
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
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. […]
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