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Health and Safety in the workplace

The decades-long legal struggle of Taiwanese electronics workers

13th April 2023 Equal Times 0

In the late 1960s, the authoritarian government of Chiang Kai-shek invited the US firm Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to transfer part of its television […]

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 […]

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

29th October 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 October 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 […]

Care workers demand better working conditions

1st September 2020 Lilita Gcwabe 0

For the second time under the covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, community care workers in Khayelitsha protested for better conditions of work.

Covid-19 exposes ailing health system in E Cape

23rd June 2020 Joseph Chirume 0

The coronavirus has exposed the ailing public health system and the inequalities between private and public healthcare.

Employers failing to provide adequate PPE

19th June 2020 Mzi Velapi 0

Workers and unions continue to be on the defensive under covid-19 conditions as many employers are putting their profits ahead of workers’ health and safety.

Across the world, construction workers are caught between coronavirus risk and joblessness

28th April 2020 Equal Times 0

A daily commute of two-and-a-half hours each way would take a toll on anyone, but for Özkan, a construction worker in Istanbul, the hardest part […]

Public meeting in Macassar calls for inquiry into RDM explosion

29th November 2019 Mzi Velapi 0

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.

“It’s time for Denel to move way from our communities”

7th September 2018 Mzi Velapi 0

A memorial service for the workers killed in an explosion at Rheinmetall Denel Munition was held on Thursday evening.

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