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Podcast: Now Imprisoned, Belarus Union Leader Spoke of Hopes for Democracy
In April, at least 18 union leaders were recently arrested in Belarus, where an autocracy has run the country since the fall of the Soviet Union. Among those arrested was Sergey Antusevich, vice president of the Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions, who was...
Stopping Gender-Based Violence and Harassment at Work: The Campaign for an ILO Convention
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 Time: 10:00 a.m. EDT Place: Virtual. Registration required. Georgetown University's Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and the Solidarity Center invite you to a virtual conversation and book launch. In June 2019, the...
Leaders: Gender-Based Violence and Harassment Requires Worker-Led Solutions
Labor leaders, policymakers and stakeholders from around the world discussed efforts to prevent gender-based violence and harassment at the workplace at a panel discussion, “Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work” on Thursday, April 7. The panel was part...
NIGERIA UNION LEADERS MURDERED IN TRAIN ATTACK
Two union leaders were killed on Monday during a violent attack on a train headed to north-central Kaduna from Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Musa-Lawal Ozigi, secretary-general of the Nigeria Trade Union Congress (TUC), and Akin Akinsola, chairman of TUC-Kwara State, are...
Haiti: Workers Demonstrating For Higher Wages Met with Police Violence
Violence broke out on Wednesday, February 23, as Haitian police opened fire on garment workers demonstrating for higher wages and killed a reporter, according to witness reports. Two other reporters were injured at the scene in Port-au-Prince. Maxihen Lazzare, who...
Sri Lanka Unions Step Up Push for Ratification of Gender Violence at Work Treaty
Unions in Sri Lanka are urging the government to follow through with its promise to ratify a global treaty to end gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work by March 2022. The Sri Lanka Trade Union Movement for the Ratification of ILO C190 in Sri Lanka,...
Mexico: Independent Union Wins Landmark Election
The new, independent union, Sindicato Independiente Nacional de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Industria Automotriz (SINTTIA), won the right to represent more than 6,000 workers at a truck plant in Silao, Mexico, in a closely watched election. SINTTIA won the...
Labor Leaders Stand Against Anti-Union Violence as Mexican Workers Vote for an Independent Union
Unions in Mexico and throughout Latin America are speaking out against anti-union violence in the wake of threats made against two women leading efforts to win a historic union election. Voting began yesterday and continues today at a pickup truck plant in Silao,...
Experts: Domestic Violence a Societal Hazard for Informal Workers
Informal workers are routinely excluded from economic and political decision-making, and their work is systematically devalued and made invisible. The COVID-19 pandemic has only intensified these dynamics and has resulted in skyrocketing rates of domestic violence,...
‘Climate Justice Is for Everyone,’ Say Unions
Climate justice activists are increasingly under attack across the globe by governments acting in concert with private interests, a trend that threatens civic freedoms for all, says the United Nation’s special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly...
Despite Threats, Honduran Union Leader Sees Hope in Solidarity
In Honduras, where union leaders are targeted with violence and even murdered for trying to form unions and improve workers’ lives, Darlin Oviedo, president of the apparel union SITRAJASPER (the Union of Workers of the Jasper Company), recognized the signs that he...
SE Europe: Unions Unblocking Barriers for LGBTQ Workers
LGBTQ workers in Southeastern Europe face daunting barriers to attaining equality and safety on the job, among them exclusion, discrimination in obtaining employment, harassment and violence on the job, and poverty. In the region, two-thirds of workers who identify as...
EVENT: Gender-Based Violence and Harassment in the World of Work
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 Time: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. EDT Place: Virtual. Registration is required. On June 25, 2021, International Labor Organization Convention 190 on the elimination of violence and harassment in the world of work, including gender-based...
Two Women Union Leaders Arrested in Myanmar; Total Now 20+
Two union leaders in Myanmar recently have been arrested for their participation in pro-democracy rallies, and unions worldwide are calling for governments to halt trade and other financial support that provide backing to the country’s military government. The total...
Podcast: How Unions Meet COVID-19 Challenges—and Beyond
When the Nigerian government sought to raise taxes on basic goods and decrease subsidies on key items like fuel as millions of workers struggled without jobs or wages during the COVID-19 pandemic, the 4 million members of the Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) successfully...
Belarus Steps Up Repression Against Union Workers
Three union leaders and a worker rights activist were arrested in Belarus, and the government is proposing a new law tightening restrictions on public gatherings as it ramps up repression against unions and their members who are demanding free and fair elections and...
Podcast: LGBTQ+ Domestic Workers Win Rights with Their Union
As a trans domestic worker from Nicaragua working in Guatemala, Francia Blanco says her experiences with verbal and physical abuse, discrimination, and forced labor conditions led her to take action to build a world where trans domestic workers had rights, respect and...
Union Women Launch Global Petition to End Gender-Based Violence
Union women and Solidarity Center partners from the Middle East and North Africa spearheaded a petition calling for governments to ratify International Labor Organization Convention 190, the landmark global labor standard adopted in June 2019 to eliminate violence and...