Joséphine Shimbi Umba is vice president of gender, the informal economy and finance at the Trade Union Confederation of Congo (La Confédération Syndicale du Congo, […]
In a world first, as of this August, hundreds of workers for a Danish online platform for cleaning in private homes will benefit from significant […]
“Most of us are on zero hours contracts, so we don’t know how many hours we will be getting each week. The managers cut one […]
In Iraq’s May national elections, of the 329 parliamentary deputies chosen, Sairoon (meaning ‘Forward’ or ‘the Alliance for Reforms’) scored the biggest win – 55 […]
In 2015, Mohammed Arshad, 28, migrated to Saudi Arabia from Chittagong in Bangladesh with high hopes. He had plans to build a decent house, take […]
In February 2015, Gothenburg’s City Council voted to run an 18-month experiment at its Svartedalen elderly care home. The staff would transition from a standard […]
Five years after the disaster that took place on 24 April 2013, garment worker-organisers in Bangladesh say that many employers are still failing to ensure that worksites remain safe.
The Commonwealth Trade Union Group (CTUG) represents 30 million workers from the Commonwealth of Nations, an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly […]
Digitalisation, automation and artificial intelligence are changing the way we produce, work and interact. In the fourth industrial revolution the principal player is technology, and […]
Low wages and suppression of the trade union remains is the biggest challenge in the textile sector in Indonesia even though it is one of the biggest in the world with exports to US, Japan and Turkey.
Lek (a fictitious name to protect the worker) has spent 25 years checking that all the microchips that leave the factory she works in meet […]
“The only thing workers have left to fight with to defend the right to put bread on the table for their children, when all other […]
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