Photo Essays: Honoring the Dignity of Work and Workers
These Solidarity Center photo essays highlight how workers are reaching their goals through unions, worker associations and organizations like the Solidarity Center that are dedicated to enabling workers to join together to improve their workplaces, their lives and their communities.
Worker Rights Activists Raise Profile at UN Climate Talks, Urge Vigilance
Worker rights activists who participated in the UN’s annual climate meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, last month as members of the union observer...
ADVANCE CARE WORKER RIGHTS, DOMESTIC WORKERS TELL GOV’T, EMPLOYERS AT ILO CONFERENCE
With the International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF), the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and national union federations like...
Black Women Labor Leaders Unite to Address Global Issues
Black women across the world are experiencing the same issues–despite borders, distances and cultural backgrounds–and the best way to face those...
The Philippines: Snapshots from the Labor Movement
The Philippines is ranked as one of the 10 worst countries for working people. Unions there face attempts to bust their organization, arrests and...
Historic U.S.-Brazil Agreement Prioritizes Workers Rights
As the United Nations met in New York this week, U.S. President Joe Biden and Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced the launch of the...
Bangladesh Tea Workers: ‘A Lot of Sweat for Their Work’
Tea estate workers in Sreemangal, Bangladesh, say their work is much harsher now due to increased heat and more torrential rains, endangering their...
M-POWER SUMMIT: GOVERNMENTS, UNIONS UNITE AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AT WORK
Millions of workers—most of them women—face intimidation, humiliation, physical and verbal assault, and worse on the job. A July 27, 2023,...
Photo Exhibit Offers Front-Row View to Mexico’s Labor Reform
To mark 25 years in Mexico, the Solidarity Center convened a forum on the country's labor reform process and staged a photo exhibition at the Mueso...
MAY DAY 2023: STANDING UP FOR WORKER RIGHTS ACROSS THE GLOBE
African Union Leaders Join Forces in Historic Democracy Summit
Dozens of union leaders from across Africa took part in the first-ever Summit for Democracy event on the continent March 30, where they discussed...