Freedom to Form Unions

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More than 40,000 garment workers in Honduras are now covered by collective bargaining agreements following long-time Solidarity Center support for organizing. Credit: Solidarity Center/Molly McCoy

Unions promote a higher level of economic equality in societies and are a fundamental element of a free and democratic society. Freedom of association—workers’ right to form and join unions and pursue a voice on the job and in their communities—is the foundation for worker rights.

The Solidarity Center trains union organizers and provides support for unions around the world. We support organizing campaigns, educate workers about their legal right to form a union and promote strong labor laws.

The Solidarity Center works directly on the ground with workers to form unions and win collective bargaining agreements. For instance, in Cambodia, 8,000 hotel and casino workers at Nagaworld casino won large wage increases and reinstatement of their dismissed union president following Solidarity Center union organizing support and legal assistance. And in Honduras, long-time Solidarity Center support for organizing has resulted in more than 40,000 garment workers, mostly women, now covered by collective bargaining agreements.

Read the “Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association” report presented in 2016 to the United Nations.

African Union Leaders Join Forces in Historic Democracy Summit

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African Union Leaders Join Forces in Historic Democracy Summit
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Podcast: Workers Speak Out: Unions Are Essential for Democracy

Workers from around the world, including those exiled from Belarus, Eswatini and Myanmar for forming unions, striking and trying to speak freely, describe why democracy is important—and why unions are key to democracy—in a special episode of The Solidarity Center...

Fol, mos shkruaj me shkumës! Mësuesit e Kosovës bëjnë thirrje për dialog me Qeverinë

Solidarity Center
Solidarity Center
Fol, mos shkruaj me shkumës! Mësuesit e Kosovës bëjnë thirrje për dialog me Qeverinë
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Podcast: Workers Speak Out: Unions Are Essential for Democracy

Podcast: Workers Speak Out: Unions Are Essential for Democracy

Workers from around the world, including those exiled from Belarus, Eswatini and Myanmar for forming unions, striking and trying to speak freely, describe why democracy is important—and why unions are key to democracy—in a special episode of The Solidarity Center...

Fol, mos shkruaj me shkumës! Mësuesit e Kosovës bëjnë thirrje për dialog me Qeverinë

Solidarity Center
Solidarity Center
Fol, mos shkruaj me shkumës! Mësuesit e Kosovës bëjnë thirrje për dialog me Qeverinë







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2022 Annual Report

2022 Annual Report

In 2022, the Solidarity Center marked a quarter century of supporting embattled workers, advocating and litigating for change, and celebrating worker rights advances in troubled times. As crackdowns on fundamental civil rights intensify around the world, workers and...

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