Photo Essays: Honoring the Dignity of Work and Workers
These Solidarity Center photo essays highlight how workers are reaching their goals through unions, worker associations and organizations like the Solidarity Center that are dedicated to enabling workers to join together to improve their workplaces, their lives and their communities.

Historic U.S.-Brazil Agreement Prioritizes Workers Rights
As the United Nations met in New York this week, U.S. President Joe Biden and Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced the launch of the...

Bangladesh Tea Workers: ‘A Lot of Sweat for Their Work’
Tea estate workers in Sreemangal, Bangladesh, say their work is much harsher now due to increased heat and more torrential rains, endangering their...

M-POWER SUMMIT: GOVERNMENTS, UNIONS UNITE AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AT WORK
Millions of workers—most of them women—face intimidation, humiliation, physical and verbal assault, and worse on the job. A July 27, 2023,...

Photo Exhibit Offers Front-Row View to Mexico’s Labor Reform
To mark 25 years in Mexico, the Solidarity Center convened a forum on the country's labor reform process and staged a photo exhibition at the Mueso...

MAY DAY 2023: STANDING UP FOR WORKER RIGHTS ACROSS THE GLOBE

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...

MAY DAY 2019: STANDING UP FOR WORKER RIGHTS ACROSS THE GLOBE
From Haiti to Kenya, Nepal and Palestine, hundreds of thousands of workers and their families celebrated International Workers Day last week,...

‘Sometimes I am lucky to get a task for three days’: Etaf Awdi Hamdi Eqdeeh
This Solidarity Center photo essay offers a look into the life of mother and agricultural worker Etaf Awdi Hamdi Eqdeeh, who lives and works in...

Make Every Job a Good Job: Workers Achieve Decent Work Together
Around the world, workers, their unions and other associations are striving to promote the rights of working people at their jobs and in their...

Young Minds At Work: Educating the Children of Burmese Migrant Workers in Thailand
TIME TO LEARN The migrant children diploma center opened in 2013 as the first school for children of Burmese migrant workers in the community known...