WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT
We are the largest U.S.-based international worker rights organization partnering directly with workers and their unions, and supporting their struggle for respect, fair wages, better workplaces and a voice in the global economy.
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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How We End Gender-Based Violence at Work
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As we mark International Women’s Day, South African union activist Brenda Modise shares how union women around the world successfully pushed the International Labor Organization for adoption of Convention 190 to end gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) at work, and talks about how unions in South Africa are part of a broad feminist network campaigning to end GBVH there.
- VIDEO: What is Gender-Based Violence at Work?
- South Africa’s C190Can Campaign
- VIDEO: Brenda Modise and union activists campaign to end GBVH at work
- Fact Sheet: C190 Explained
- More information on the global campaign to ratify C190
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Solidarity Center in the News
Report: New Laws Undercut Constitutional Freedoms, Rights
Newly enacted laws have jeopardized the freedoms laid out by Cambodia’s constitution and, having been widely misapplied by officials, left less than 12 percent of Cambodians confident in exercising their rights, according to an NGO/Solidarity Center report released on Thursday.
Revealed: Reality of Life Working in an Ivanka Trump Clothing Factory
“You have to assess minimum wages in the context of the country itself and, in that context, it’s not a living wage,” said David Welsh, Indonesia and Malaysia director at the Solidarity Center.”
Tax Justice Must Be Sought by All Progressives, Supported by Global Trade Unions—U.S.
“We live in a world that is feeling the impact of economic inequality. Workers are paying their fair share of taxes and oftentimes are receiving very little in terms of service delivery,” said Christopher Johnson, Solidarity Center country program director, West Africa.