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Activists and union members march for Basic Income Grant

11th November 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 October 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 September 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 September 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 August 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 July 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 July 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.

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 April 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 April 2021 Anele Mbi 0

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

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