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Around the world, trade unions are championing LGBTQI+ rights in the workplace

17th May 2023 Equal Times 0

LGBTQI+ workers still face discrimination and harassment in the workplace, exclusion from the labour market, poor working conditions and lower wages, while homophobia limits the inclusion and participation of LGBTQI+ workers within the trade union movement itself.

Cosatu marches for decent work

7th Oct 2022 Vincent Lali Chris Gilili 0

Workers in twelve major centres around the country marched for decent and improved working conditions.

Brazil’s labour justice system is battling with growing rights violations

6th Dec 2021 Equal Times 0

“It was chaos,” says Nilzete, a nurse at Souza Aguiar Hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Twenty-three years of experience had not prepared her for this. […]

For India’s stigmatised and exploited sanitation workers, the pandemic has only made conditions worse

21st Sep 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 […]

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 […]

On the road with Côte d’Ivoire’s cocoa beans

12th Apr 2021 Equal Times 0

It’s 8.40pm. A strong wind blows across the dark night sky, whistling through the large trees that protrude from the canopy formed by cocoa trees. […]

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 […]

Caught between military occupation and unemployment, Palestinians continue to work in the Israeli economy without full labour rights

27th Nov 2020 Equal Times 0

It is four in the morning and heavy rain washes the deserted alleys of the village of Al Midiah, west of Ramallah. A white minibus […]

Trade unions and civil society are pushing for ambitious climate action in Scotland

5th Nov 2020 Equal Times 0

As Glasgow prepares to host COP26, the UN climate summit in November 2021, Scotland will take centre stage in the global power struggle surrounding if […]

In a time of global crises, waste workers are our unsung heroes

29th Oct 2020 Equal Times 0

If the global fight against Covid-19 made one thing clear, it is society’s complete dependency on essential workers, and the risks involved in these professions. […]

Eight years after the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Pakistan, victims and their families are still fighting for justice

22nd Oct 2020 Equal Times 0

On 22 September 2020, almost exactly eight years after Pakistan’s worst industrial fire officially killed 264 garments workers and injured over 60 others in the commercial capital […]

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