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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Solidarity Center in the News
Murder Charges for Rana Plaza Disaster ‘Much Delayed’
“Over the past three years, the Bangladesh government has approved fewer and fewer union registration applications. Through their unions, workers are able to speak out freely about safety and health concerns at their worksites and prevent horrible tragedies like Rana Plaza. Limiting workers from forming unions puts workers’ safety at risk,” said Tim Ryan, Solidarity Center director of Asia programs.
Non-Payment of Wages a Form of Slavery
Imani Countess, the Africa regional program director for the Solidarity Center, said that workers should receive the rewards of their work—decent pay, benefits, safe working conditions, respect and fair treatment. “So when in 2013 we heard that over 100 women in Hwange peacefully protested—demanding that wages owed to their men be paid—and were met by police violence resulting in injuries for several, we were shocked.”
Zimbabwe: #WageTheft
An astounding 80,000 Zimbabwe workers in formal employment–out of some 350,000 workers–did not receive wages and benefits on time in 2014, according to a new Solidarity Center report, ‘Working Without Pay: Wage Theft in Zimbabwe,’ released today in Harare.