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In a demonstration of Lesotho’s widely reported troubled human rights record, peacefully protesting garment workers rallying since Friday for two promised, but indefinitely delayed, minimum wage increases were met on Monday in the capital, Maseru, and surrounding...
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Lesotho Garment Worker Program to Combat Gender-based Violence Begins
A worker-centered, precedent-setting program that targets gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) in four Lesotho garment factories is now in effect for as many as 10,000 workers producing jeans for the global market. The program inauguration on Friday was marked...
Lesotho Garment Workers Strike, Win Back Pay
Tens of thousands of garment workers in Lesotho waged a successful one-day strike for unpaid wages, returning to work after the government agreed over the weekend to honor the agreement it made in April to pay workers during the novel coronavirus lockdown. Some 50,000...
Lesotho Plan Has All Elements to End GBV at Work
A new worker-centered, precedent-setting program will comprehensively address the rampant gender-based violence and harassment denying thousands of women garment workers a safe and dignified workplace in Lesotho. The program, established by two negotiated and...
Levi Strauss, Kontoor Back Worker-Protection Accord in Lesotho
“The accord, backed by civil and women’s rights groups, five Lesotho-based labor unions and the U.S.-based Worker Rights Consortium, Solidarity Center and Workers United, will offer protection to more than 10,000 [garment] workers in the southern African nation.”
Pact Combats Gender Violence in Lesotho Factories
Leading apparel brands, trade unions and women’s rights organizations sign binding agreements to combat gender-based violence and harassment at key supplier’s factories in Lesotho With support from U.S. labor organizations, collaborative program creates independent...
Police Kill Two Garment Workers, Unions Demand Justice
A police crackdown against Lesotho garment workers protesting a two-year delay in scheduled minimum wage increases resulted in two fatalities in Maseru, the capital, last week. Pitso Mothala and Motselisi Ramasa died as police fired into the crowd. Many more workers...
WORKERS AND THEIR UNIONS TAKE ACTION ON COVID-19
As the novel coronavirus spreads, unions and worker associations around the world are demanding safe and healthy conditions for workers who must remain on the job, and that they be compensated during forced work site closures and not laid off to ensure high returns...
‘We Just Want to Be Able to Do Our Job Safely’
Trade unions around the world are raising the alarm as some governments and employers during the coronavirus pandemic are failing to meet their obligation to protect workers’ health and safety in violation of international agreements and hard-fought-for national...
Women & Their Unions Stand Strong during COVID-19
In Tunisia, 150 women garment workers self-quarantined in their factory to manufacture desperately needed protective masks, churning out 50,000 a day as the COVID-19 crisis broke out. The South African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (SACTWU) reached an agreement...
From Haiti to Kenya, Unions Take Action on COVID-19
Just as the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the massive global economic and social inequality around the world, with workers in the informal economy and supply chains, and migrant workers—many of whom are women—especially marginalized, so, too, does it...
Worker Rights Lawyers Join in First Global Conference
From Chile to Zimbabwe, the past year has been one of protest and struggle as unions, workers and citizens are standing up against economies that do not work for working people, said Solidarity Rule of Law Director Jeff Vogt, opening the first International Lawyers...
Women Worker Rights Leaders Share Hope for Future
Dynamic women worker rights leaders from across the globe offered a vision for hope, resilience and movement toward an economy and society that works for people and the planet yesterday at the event, “Building Power: Women’s Leadership in the Fight for Justice,...
Interview with Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau [Radio]
A discussion on WPFW 89.3 about a landmark pact addressing gender-based violence at garment factories in Lesotho–the first-ever binding negotiated agreement by workers, employers and clothing brands to mandate education and awareness trainings for all employees and managers, an independent reporting and monitoring system and remedies for abusive behavior.
BUILDING POWER: WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP IN THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE, DEMOCRACY, AND FAIR WORK
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 from 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Murphy Institute, 25 W 43rd St., 18th Floor, New York, NY 10036 Agenda 2:30- 3:00 PM: Registration 3:00- 3:20 PM: Opening Remarks Gregory Mantsios, Dean of the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies...
Worker Rights Worst in Belarus, Middle East-North Africa
Belarus, China and Colombia are countries with the worst worker rights violations in the world, while the Middle East and North Africa is the world’s worst region when it comes to fundamental rights at work, according to the 2015 Global Rights Index released today....
Fact Sheets & Advisories
Fact Sheets Convention to End Violence and Harassment at Work/Including Gender-Based Violence and Harassment (HTML), September 2019 Sexual Harassment and Gender-Based Violence in the Global Garment and Textile Industry (HTML), August 2019 Global Garment and Textile...