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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![An in-person workshop in Kuwait surveying Gulf region domestic worker associations found that although care workers, most of whom in the Gulf are migrant workers, benefit from some legal provisions—such as in Bahrain and Kuwait, from fixed contracts, paid leave and health insurance—the kafala system interferes to drag back any formal economic conditions. Credit: Integrated Community Center (ICC)](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Kuwait.-Care-Domestic-worker-survey-of-Gulf-region-domestic-worker-associations-affiliated-with-Solidarity-Center-partner-Integrated-Community-Center-ICC.ICC_.03.2024-400x250.jpg)
Domestic Workers ‘Level Up Their Dignity’: Advancing Rights for Care Workers
![Workers surprised by sudden termination rally outside the Sofitel hotel with worker rights protest signs](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Philippines.SENTRO-Sofitel-hotel-workers-rally-against-surprise-mass-job-loss-400x250.jpg)
‘We Will Fight,’ Say Terminated Philippines Hotel Workers, Demanding Transparency
![In the heart of Kantamanto Market, one of the city's largest markets, head porter Hawa Latif carries goods on her head with a co-worker.](https://www.solidaritycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Ghana.Accra-market-porters-informal-economy.Jonathan-TorgovnikGetty-ImagesImages-of-Empowerment.https___www.imagesofempowerment.org_wp-content_uploads_WIEGO_ACCRA_8086_FULLY_RELEASED-scaled--400x250.jpg)
West Africa: Union Health Care Campaign Expands Reach
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Solidarity Center in the News
Brown, Wyden Call Meeting with Administration to Press for Strong Enforcement of Anti-Slave Labor Provision
Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau was one of four representatives of the human and worker rights community at a meeting called by U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) with members of the Administration and advocacy groups to press for strong enforcement of the senators’ amendment to end the importation of products produced with forced labor into the United States.
Eradicating Child Labor in Supply Chains Requires Binding, Enforceable Standards
In the effort to end child labor and other abuses in supply chains, voluntary, unenforceable corporate codes of conduct are not the answer, write’s Solidarity Center Senior Asia Program Officer Sonia Mistry. “The only truly sustainable and meaningful alternatives to voluntary codes of conduct are binding and enforceable standards that employers and governments must abide by and which uphold the labor standards enshrined in the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) conventions, like the prohibition on child labor and the right of workers to form or join unions.”
Access to Justice for Bangladeshi Migrant Domestic Workers in Jordan
As part of this project we held a focus group with ten Bangladeshi women migrant domestic workers in Jordan, together with our partners from Solidarity Center. (Op-Ed by Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women)