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“Food and goods delivery digital platform work is already some of the most precarious, underpaid employment in Brazil,” Gonzalo Martinez de Vedia, Brazil program director at labor rights organization Solidarity Center, told Rest of World. “Any new fee that subtracts...
“Gig workers need to be working more than 12 hours a day, seven days a week across multiple platforms to make a living,” Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero, who researches gig work platforms at labor rights organization Solidarity Center in Mexico City, told Rest of World....
The agreement involves key stakeholders such as the U.S.-based Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the Association of Cotton-Textile Clusters of Uzbekistan, the Solidarity Center, and the Uzbekistan Ministry of Employment.
The two-year agreement, whose signatories include the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the Association of Cotton-Textile Clusters of Uzbekistan, the Solidarity Center and the Uzbekistan Ministry of Employment, is a “cornerstone” of a new...
“In the absence of truly pro-women initiatives from the government and the platforms, the punto naranja sends the message that positive actions can easily be taken,” says the Solidarity Center's Kruskaya Hidalgo.
The withdrawal of Western brands from Myanmar “doesn’t mean that production is ceasing--it’s sort of the opposite,” said Dave Welsh, the Myanmar country director for Solidarity Center, a labor rights organization. “You have all kinds of nefarious actors that are more...
Monika Hartsel, deputy country program director of the Solidarity Center, a worker rights organization with an office in Bangladesh, pointed out "very dangerous" safety issues. "We’ve seen very few improvements in occupational safety,” she said. “You have the impact...
“'Right now, there is more exciting union organizing in Mexico than anywhere else in the world,' said Shawna Bader-Blau, head of the Solidarity Center, a global worker rights advocacy group. 'We are seeing new independent unions and actual collective bargaining...
"[F]our organizations have joined as associate founding members without voting power: Solidarity Center, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity, Awaj Foundation, and Bangladeshi Ovhibashi Mohila Sramik Association."
"Three years ago, the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation, the Solidarity Center and the U.S. Agency for International Development teamed up to launch a campaign to improve road safety for Cambodia's garment workers."