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COVID-19: Workers & THEIR Unions Take Action
WHY WE’RE DIFFERENT
We are the largest U.S.-based international worker rights organization partnering directly with workers and their unions, and supporting their struggle for respect, fair wages, better workplaces and a voice in the global economy.
We value the dignity of work and workers. We know how all the work everyone depends on gets done–who picks the food for your table, cleans your home so you can go to the office, makes your clothes, keeps your streets clean. And at our core is every worker’s right to solve issues through collective action and to form unions.
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Solidarity Center Workers’ Empowerment Project in Bangladesh Pivots in COVID-19 Crisis
As garment factories shut down in Bangladesh during the novel coronavirus pandemic, leaving workers without wages or access to support services,...
Countries Must Cooperate to Facilitate Safe Migration for Workers
Globally, marginalized workers have been especially hard hit by the novel coronavirus. Migrant workers in particular have experienced some of the...
#GivingTuesday: Join Us! Help Us Reach Our Goal!
When the pandemic hit, the Solidarity Center quickly pivoted its programming, drawing on its extensive network in more than 60 countries to rapidly...
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[CNBC] Bangladesh Faces Twin Crises as Coronavirus Deals New Blow to Flood-battered Nation
“We see desperate workers willing to accept very low wages in extremely dangerous conditions, with no serious health and safety protections, let alone social distancing measures or personal protective equipment,” said Jon Hartough, Solidarity Center Bangladesh program...
[US-Asia Institute] Tim Ryan and Atley Chock: Worker Rights in Thailand (Podcast)
"The COVID crisis highlights in a much sharper way the issues that these workers have been advocating on, and struggling for, for years and years and years... [and] this is why we really need a more equitable development model than the current supply chain model,"...
[Podcast: Working Life with Jonathan Tasini] How To Steal An Election 101; Haitian Garment Workers Rise Up
"[Garment workers producing clothing for global brands in Haiti] are at risk of COVID; [they] often won't have access to health care because of the tricks that employers are playing: essentially stealing from their contributions" says Solidarity Center regional...
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New Solidarity Center Report: “What Difference Does a Union Make? Banana Plantations in the North and South of Guatemala”
Date: January 27, 2021 Time: 10 a.m., EST Place: Virtual (registration details coming shortly) Report author Pennsylvania State University's Dr....
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
December 10, 2020 The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed December 10 as Human Rights Day in 1950, to bring to the attention to “the...