This is an excerpt from the Global Labour Column by Anna Wolañska, international secretary of NSZZ “Solidarnoœæ” and a member of the governing Body of the International Labor Organization (ILO). Like Russian politics, labor relations in Russia are rife with...
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One Dead and Four “Disappeared” in Algeria Following Peaceful March
Brutal and violent government repression of worker rights activists has resulted in the death of a community guardian and the disappearance of four others in Algeria. On July 11, 2012, some 45,000 community guardians engaged in a peaceful march, following the...
Solidarity Center Expands Fight for Worker Justice in Colombia
The Solidarity Center has expanded its program work in Colombia, with the goal of consolidating and implementing labor reforms and formalizing labor relations for hundreds of thousands of precarious, subcontracted workers who currently toil without many of the...
Algerian Workers Risk Health, Protest Government Crackdown with Hunger Strike
After more than three weeks on a hunger strike to protest government repression of the independent trade union movement, six women and two men from Algeria’s National Federation of Justice Workers are increasingly frail and face grave, possibly permanent, health...
Iraq: Nine Years after Ouster of Saddam Hussein, Workers Still Toil under His Labor Law
Nine years since U.S. troops entered Iraq to oust the regime of Saddam Hussein, work and life in Iraq are—to paraphrase Thomas Hobbes—nasty, brutish, and hard. Iraq is a resource-rich country, yet workers hardly earn enough to feed their families. Economic revival has...
Solidarity Center Mourns Death of Aminul Islam
The Solidarity Center is appalled at the murder of Aminul Islam, a longtime friend and colleague. Aminul, 39, was a plant-level union leader at an export processing zone (EPZ) in Bangladesh, an organizer for the Bangladesh Center for Workers’ Solidarity (BCWS), and...
The Struggle for Worker Rights in Colombia (2006)
Colombian trade unionists face daily threats of violence and assassination, attempts by employers, paramilitaries, guerrillas and the state to stop dissent, silence workers and destroy the only mechanism that gives workers some control over their economic lives: their...