Joburg waste pickers decry abuse while making ends meet
Wastepickers get no help nor recognition from the City of Johannesburg which seems to try to take their livelihoods away from them.
Marginalised workers
Activists and union members march for Basic Income Grant
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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 […]
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