78 episodes

Promoting Worker Rights Worldwide

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Promoting Worker Rights Worldwide

    ‘Healthcare Is a Human Right’ Say Nigeria’s Unions In West Africa Campaign

    ‘Healthcare Is a Human Right’ Say Nigeria’s Unions In West Africa Campaign

      The Nigerian working group of a campaign led by the Organization of Trade Unions of West Africa (OTUWA) is collaborating on a regional campaign demanding more investment by governments in the health of their citizens. OTUWA represents trade union national centers in the 15 West African countries comprising the Economic Community of West African […]

    • 2 min
    MONTENEGRO TELECOM WORKERS WIN END TO 14-YEAR WAGE FREEZE

    MONTENEGRO TELECOM WORKERS WIN END TO 14-YEAR WAGE FREEZE

      Following a 136-day strike, Montenegro’s telecom workers are celebrating a collective agreement that reverses a 14-year wage freeze and interrupts more than a decade of alleged union-busting tactics by Crnogorski Telekom (CT), majority owned by Deutsche Telecom since 2005. The agreement won by the Trade Union of Telecom of Montenegro (STCG) immediately increases workers’ wages […]

    • 3 min
    Rana Plaza Collapse at 10 Years: Brands, Bangladesh Government Must Do More

    Rana Plaza Collapse at 10 Years: Brands, Bangladesh Government Must Do More

      Ten years after the multi-story Rana Plaza building collapsed in Bangladesh, killing 1,138 workers and injuring thousands more, garment workers and their unions say that although safety has improved in some instances, much more needs to be done. And fundamental to achieving safe working conditions is ensuring workers have the freedom to form unions. […]

    • 8 min
    Bangladesh: Upcoming Report Details Impact of Climate Crisis, Pollution on Tannery Workers

    Bangladesh: Upcoming Report Details Impact of Climate Crisis, Pollution on Tannery Workers

      A survey of tannery workers living in Hemayetpur, Bangladesh, is illustrating how the impact of industrial pollution, harsh working conditions and low wages is leaving workers, their families and their communities increasingly vulnerable to ever-increasing climate-related shocks in the country. “When combined with the health consequences of environmental degradation and the climate crisis, the […]

    • 3 min
    Pro-Democracy Tunisian Unions Protest Escalating Crackdown

    Pro-Democracy Tunisian Unions Protest Escalating Crackdown

      For the second time this year a leader of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) was arrested, this time for suspicion of insulting a public official at a protest outside the country’s Ministry of Culture building. The arrest of the UGTT’s secretary for culture, Abdel Nasser Ben Amara last month—who has since been acquitted […]

    • 3 min
    African Union Leaders Join Forces in Historic Democracy Summit

    African Union Leaders Join Forces in Historic Democracy Summit

      Dozens of union leaders from across Africa took part in the first-ever Summit for Democracy event on the continent March 30, where they discussed the essential role of unions in strengthening democracy and shared strategies on how unions can step up efforts to advance democracy through one of its most essential components—worker rights. Co-hosted […]

    • 1 min

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