North Macedonia
in partnership with national union federations and education sector unions, in North Macedonia the Solidarity Center focuses on elimination of discrimination at work, providing more workers with the opportunity to join unions, and safety and health.
Through events promoting workers’ understanding of health and safety rules and regulations in eight North Macedonia sectors, the Solidarity Center with the country’s national federation and a regional safety and health organization facilitated the formation of an eight-sector national safety and health committee. The Solidarity Center’s education sector program helps empower union representatives with knowledge and skills necessary for enforcing union contracts at the school level, and builds the capacity of union committees to effectively represent young and women workers.
Serbia
Serbia’s unions in partnership with the Solidarity Center are deploying a national network of trade union activists to better coordinate union activities and improve the quality of workplace safety and health monitoring.
Through bargaining agreements with employers to expand health and safety protections for all workers including those who are not union members, unions are developing provincial safety and health committees to improve safety in non-unionized workplaces.
By strengthening union interaction with government agencies, occupational physicians and environmental civil society groups, such union programs are improving local environmental conditions.
The global labor movement lost a friend and advocate, and the Solidarity Center a dear colleague with the passing of Laurence “Laurie” Clements on April 19 after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer. Laurie is survived by his wife, Inja, a son, two daughters...