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[Context] Mexican Female Gig Workers Push to Fix “Sexist” Algorithms
"Women earn lower wages, they face sexual harassment and they face different ways of discrimination," said Kruskaya Hidalgo, researcher at the Solidarity Center, an organization supporting the creation of app worker unions in Mexico City.
[Devex] Why a Just Transition Can’t Leave Women Workers Behind
“In Cambodia, unionized garment workers have negotiated workplace heat stress agreements and new research shows that workers with a union that negotiates over heat stress experience 74% fewer minutes at high core body temperatures,” explained Sonia Mistry, climate and...
[Swiss Info] Swiss-Funded Thai Climate Project Accused of Labor Abuse
David Welsh of the U.S. international workers’ organization Solidarity Center is disappointed. “Instead of welcoming serious negotiations, the union leadership was fired,” he said. "The employees were promised benefits if they did not join the union."
[Rubber News] Firestone Liberia contractors vote to unionize; Bridgestone says third-party workers not eligible to join FAWUL union
"We're so proud of these workers who overwhelmingly voted to exercise their right to join a union," Shawna Bader-Blau, executive director of the Solidarity Center, told Rubber News Sept. 6. "We'll continue to support them along with the USW as they now turn their...
[Sourcing Journal] Heat Check: Searing Temps Lead to Unsafe Working Conditions in the Global South
All of this ends up having a “compounding impact, not only on workers, who are predominantly female, but their families as well,” said Sonia Mistry, climate and labor justice director at the Solidarity Center, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. Workers who are not...
[Vogue] What Bangladesh’s political shake-up means for fashion
“You’re colluding with an authoritarian regime or with repressive police institutions if you’re not taking the proactive step of clearly enforcing rules with your suppliers as a brand,” said Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau.
[The Independent] NLC, TUC Other Stakeholders Seek End To Violence, Harassment At Workplace
Corroborating Roselyn’s position, another participant, Vanessa Edebru from the Solidarity Centre and Gender Specialist, said over 80 percent of the workforce faces one form of violence or harassment at their places of work. She said, “This C190 report analysis meeting...
[Green Bay Press] Manufacturers looking for low costs, easy access to U.S. market, turn to Mexico, not China
Some have speculated Mexico could provide jobs that would ease the number of migrants coming into the United States from Central and South America. But that's not happened, said Joell Molina, Americas regional program director with the Solidarity Center, a workers’...
[La Jornada] Mexican Unions Ask in the U.S. to Strengthen the USMCA Labor Mechanism
“There is common ground in recognizing that the [rapid response] mechanism has had a positive impact," said Paolo Marinaro, Solidarity Center Mexico Country Program Director. "Thanks to the legitimation processes, (workers) have been able to remove themselves from the...
[Radio Free Asia] Complaints over Myanmar’s manufacturing sector tripled in 2023, report finds
“To the extent that Western brands have pulled out unquestionably this has given carte blanche to factories to drive down labor conditions and increase violations of Burmese labor law and trade union rights,” said Dave Welsh, Myanmar country director of labor rights...