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Surviving lockdown as migrants living in SA

25th May 2021 Joseph Chirume 0

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.

Justice delayed again for assaulted farmworker

10th May 2021 Nkosemntu Stuurman 0

Violence on South African farms is endemic and farmworkers all too commonly are the victims.

Joburg wastepickers against “recycling levy”

3rd May 2021 Mzi Velapi 0

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

26th Apr 2021 Equal Times 0

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

19th Apr 2021 Anele Mbi 0

The EPWP workers have vowed to fight until their demands are met.

“A year of trauma” – community careworkers

25th Mar 2021 Nkosemntu Stuurman 0

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”?

8th Mar 2021 Equal Times 0

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

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. […]

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