Photo Essays: Honoring the Dignity of Work and Workers
Workers’ pride in their craft—whether unloading fish on Thai docks or excavating phosphate in Mexican mines—and their efforts to achieve justice on the job, including fair pay and safe working conditions, demonstrate that despite their divergent circumstances, workers globally are united by their ambition to achieve their share of economic freedom and prosperity.
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.
Make Every Job a Good Job
Around the world, workers, their unions and other associations are striving to promote the rights of working people at their jobs and in their...
Fighting With Fire: Bangladesh Garment Workers Take Safety into Their Own Hands
On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Bangladesh collapsed, trapping thousands of workers and ultimately killing more than...
Celebrating Workers: 2015 Year in Photos
Whether building a towering office building in downtown Zimbabwe, sewing garments in a Bangladesh factory or digging for phosphate in Mexico mines,...