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We value the dignity of work and workers. We know how all the work everyone depends on gets done–who picks the food for your table, cleans your home so you can go to the office, makes your clothes, keeps your streets clean. And at our core is every worker’s right to solve issues through collective action and to form unions.
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NIGERIA: UNIONS ALLY WITH GOVERNMENT, CIVIL SOCIETY ON HEAT STRESS
Ukraine: Domestic Workers Win As President Signs New Law
Philippines: Garment Workers Struggle Against Union Busting
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Sisters in solidarity: the communal care of domestic workers in the Middle East
The Domestic Workers Solidarity Network in Jordan is the first initiative of its kind in the country and one of few in the region. The network, whose motto is “Sisters in Solidarity,” aims to serve and support domestic workers through awareness-raising, legal assistance and roundtables in coordination with the Adalah Center for Human Rights Studies.
Organizers: Baltimore Seafood Business Masks Shocking Labor Abuses
It’s no surprise that Phillips doesn’t want to talk about its South Asia seafood operations — few international seafood corporations do, according to Tim Ryan, Asia regional program director at the Washington, D.C.-based worker advocacy group Solidarity Center.
UN Sanctions and North Korea’s Forgotten Workers
The United Nations Security Council recently adopted Resolution 2371—the latest sanctions on North Korea. In so doing, the Security Council acquiesced to the continuation of the country’s state-sponsored, forced-labor-for-export scheme and abandoned an important opportunity to protect the rights and dignity of workers as defined by UN conventions, writes the Solidarity Center’s Jeff Vogt.