The decades-long legal struggle of Taiwanese electronics workers
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 […]
Health and Safety in the workplace
Clinical waste collectors – unprotected, untrained, underpaid and undervalued
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
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
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
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
The coronavirus has exposed the ailing public health system and the inequalities between private and public healthcare.
Employers failing to provide adequate PPE
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
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
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”
A memorial service for the workers killed in an explosion at Rheinmetall Denel Munition was held on Thursday evening.
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