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.
MAY DAY 2019: STANDING UP FOR WORKER RIGHTS ACROSS THE GLOBE
From Haiti to Kenya, Nepal and Palestine, hundreds of thousands of workers and their families celebrated International Workers Day last week,...
‘Sometimes I am lucky to get a task for three days’: Etaf Awdi Hamdi Eqdeeh
This Solidarity Center photo essay offers a look into the life of mother and agricultural worker Etaf Awdi Hamdi Eqdeeh, who lives and works in...
Make Every Job a Good Job: Workers Achieve Decent Work Together
Around the world, workers, their unions and other associations are striving to promote the rights of working people at their jobs and in their...
Young Minds At Work: Educating the Children of Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand
TIME TO LEARN The migrant children diploma center opened in 2013 as the first school for children of Burmese migrant workers in the community known...
Domestic Workers Fight for Their Rights in Kenya
Domestic workers are some of the world’s most vulnerable workers, comprising a significant part of the global workforce in informal employment. Lucy...
Invisible Work: Exploitation in the Global Garment Industry
Approximately 1 in 5 workers worldwide are employed in global supply chains. Millions of them do not have access to decent work and must endure long...
In Thailand, Burmese Migrant Workers Toil Without Rights
An estimated 200,000 Burmese migrants fuel Thailand’s huge fishing industry in Samut Sakhon province, an hour outside of Bangkok. The majority of...
Palestine Workers Find Strength in their Union
Trade unions in Palestine are among the most significant institutions of civil society not directly tied to any political party. As the primary...
Giving Voice to Hope in Bangladesh
The three-year anniversary of the November 24, 2012, fire that killed 112 Bangladesh garment workers at the Tazreen Fashions Ltd., factory offers a...
Dying for a Job: Commemorating the Anniversary of the 2012 Tazreen Factory Fire
Four million garment workers, mostly women, toil in 5,000 factories across Bangladesh, making the country’s $25 billion garment industry the world’s...