The Dominican Republic and Haiti remain in talks regarding a Dominican Republic court ruling last September that retroactively revokes the citizenship of all Dominicans born in the country to undocumented parents as far back as 1929. The ruling affects tens of...
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Global Solidarity Highlights from AFL-CIO Convention
Trade unionists from dozens of countries are taking part in the quadrennial AFL-CIO Convention in Los Angeles this week—and the Los Angeles Times has video highlights of two international union leaders. Zahoor Awan, general secretary of the Pakistan Workers...
Workshop – Mechanisms for Increasing Women’s Participation in Unions: Education, Policies, Quotas and Budgets
Workshop Mechanisms for Increasing Women’s Participation in Unions: Education, Policies, Quotas and Budgets Panelists • Sally Choi, Project Coordinator, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), Hong Kong • Khamati Mugalla, Executive Secretary, East Africa...
Workshop – Brazil’s Integrated Education and Solidarity Economy: Opening Pathways to Income and Citizenship
Workshop Brazil’s Integrated Education and Solidarity Economy: Opening Pathways to Income and Citizenship Participants • Ruth Needleman, Professor Emerita, Labor Studies Program, Indiana University, USA • Eunice Maria Dias Wolf, Secretary of Social Development, City...
Concurrent Workshops • Union Strategies to Increase Women’s Participation in Brazil: Perspectives from Industrial, Public and Service Sectors
Workshop Union Strategies to Increase Women’s Participation in Brazil: Perspectives from Industrial, Public and Service Sectors Participants • Mara Luiza Feltes, Woman Secretariat, CONTRACS, Brazil • Monica Veloso, Secretary of Work, City of Osasco & National...
Plenary Leadership, Transformation and Labor Rights: The Essential Vision and Role of Women
Labor Historian Dorothy Sue Cobble discussed women's long history of union activism. Photo: Matt Hersey Plenary Leadership, Transformation and Labor Rights: The Essential Vision and Role of Women Panelists • Dorothy Sue Cobble, Distinguished Professor, Department of...
Women’s Empowerment, Gender Equality, and Labor Rights
Plenary Opening Remarks and Welcome Keynote • Shawna Bader-Blau, Executive Director, Solidarity Center Welcome • Rosana Sousa de Deus, Executive Committee, Central Única dos Trabalhadores, CUT • Cássia Bufelli, Women’s Secretary, União Geral dos Trabalhadores, UGT...
World Day Against Child Labor: A Focus on Pakistan Brick Kilns
The persistence of child labor—more than 215 million children toil worldwide, some half of whom are exposed to hazardous environments and suffer forced labor and prostitution—is a global shame, one highlighted each June 12 on World Day Against Child Labor. Further, an...
Afro-Colombians Fighting against Discrimination at Work
Afro-Colombians are far likelier than other Colombian workers to earn less than the minimum wage and to be employed in jobs where they cannot form unions to improve their working conditions. And all of this exclusion “has a strong current of racial discrimination...
Working Women Empowered: Building Strength Through Unions
Women make up more than 40.5 percent of the workforce worldwide, according to the most recent data by the International Labor Organization. But their labor has not resulted in a similar increase in financial well-being. Far from it. Although women contribute 66...
SRI LANKA: Migrants Gain Voice and Protections, Sources (2013)
The primary sources for this publication were first-person interviews conducted by the Solidarity Center. Other sources are noted below. "Sri Lanka," BBC Profile-South Asia, March 25, 2013. "Tsunami Death Toll," CNN, February 22, 2005. "More Sri Lankans Suffering...
World Bank Report: Worker Rights Key to Addressing Global Jobs Crisis
As the new year begins, the ongoing global jobs crisis means workers everywhere are still struggling to find employment—some 200 million people, including 75 million age 25 or younger, are unemployed. Millions more, most of them women, are shut out of the labor...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Meets with Cambodian Women Unionists, Defends Worker Rights
During her tour of Southeast Asia, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the greater protection of worker rights, improvement of labor standards, and the empowerment of women following a private meeting in Cambodia with union leaders and labor...
Informal Economy Conference Agenda
Conference Summary and Proceedings Agenda Friday December 2, 2011 Keynote Address Shawna Bader-Blau, Executive Director, Solidarity Center Research Presentation: Trade Union Responses to Organizing in the Informal Economy Rutgers University researchers Panel Response:...
REPORT: IDENTIFYING EFFECTIVE WORKER VOICE
When workers can “speak up, articulate and manifest collective agency that ultimately improves the terms and conditions of their employment and their livelihoods,” they also have a role in shaping their societies and “contributing to democratic participation beyond...
Pandemic a ‘Cruel Joke’ Say Migrant Kyrgyz Women Working in Russia
Women and workers from marginalized communities suffered disproportionately from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a new survey details the effects on Kyrgyz migrant workers in Russia. The survey of almost 300 Kyrgyz women who are dependent on precarious,...
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, international summit in southern Africa gathered representatives from the governments of Argentina, Canada, Germany, Lesotho,...
Summit for Democracy: No Democracy Without Unions
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Nigeria Drivers Form Country’s First App-Based Union
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‘TELEWORK IS NOT A SEPARATE FORM OF EMPLOYMENT,’ SAY UNIONS
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