Careworkers in Khayelitsha march for better working conditions
About 300 community careworkers marched from Day Hospital in Site B Khayeltisha to the health district offices demanding better working conditions.
Occupational health
Ex-mineworkers protest outside Mining Indaba
A group of ex-mineworkers protested outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre where the Mining Indaba is being held.
Feminist agroecology is taking on the agribusiness model in Argentina
Argentina, where around 60 per cent of the arable land is planted with genetically-modified soya, has become one of the countries where the agribusiness model […]
Public meeting in Macassar calls for inquiry into RDM explosion
In a public meeting held at Macassar Civic Hall on Thursday night, families of the workers slain by the September 2018 explosion at the Rheinmetall Denel munitions plant called for the company to be held accountable.
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 […]
“We will continue until we win,” say the Turkish protesters taking on a major Canadian mining project
At a teahouse in the tiny village of Karaibrahimler in Turkey’s lush north-western Biga Peninsula, older male residents sitting at a table debate with young […]
Ex-mineworkers march to Parliament on Marikana Day
Ex-mineworkers marched to demand transparency from government on the monies owed to them.
UNTU strikes for government to ‘fix the trains’
UNTU which is the majority union at Prasa wants the rail agency to be integrated with Transnet.
Two years on, Grenfell survivors are still waiting for justice
When flames engulfed the Grenfell Tower in west London in the early hours of 14 June 2017, and voices screamed out in terror, few could […]
Report shows major clothing brands failing to meet living wage commitments
A report by Clean Clothes Campaign unveils how global garment and sportswear industries are violating internationally recognised human rights norms and their own codes of conduct.
Domestic workers’ union welcomes court ruling
More than 1 million domestic workers around the country are now eligible for compensation for occupational injuries and diseases after a landmark court ruling.
Why fixing primary health care is crucial to making South Africa healthier
By some measures – healthy life expectancy, obesity and depression, among others – South Africa is the unhealthiest country on earth. That’s a sobering fact to […]
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