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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.
Dying for a Job: Commemorating the Anniversary of the 2012 Tazreen Factory Fire
Four million garment workers, mostly women, toil in 5,000 factories across Bangladesh, making the country’s $25 billion garment industry the world’s...
Solidarity Center Turns 20!
Evangelina Argüeta Chinchilla, Angel Miguel Conde Tapia, Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau, Rep. Karen Bass and Leonila Murillo...
Farm Workers’ Global Struggle for Rights on the Job
Agriculture employs nearly half of the world’s workforce. Low-paying and seasonal, it also is one of the three most hazardous sectors for workers...
Breaking Ground: Mexico’s Miners Push For Worker Rights
Mine workers in Mexico labor in difficult and sometimes deadly working conditions. But through their union, the National Union of Mine, Metal, Steel...
Reaching Kenya Communities on Realities of Migrating for Jobs
In Kenya, where 2.5 million people toil in irregular, precarious jobs—compared with 900,000 in the formal sector—many workers are unable to support...
WOMEN@WORK: MAKING BREAKTHROUGHS WITH THEIR UNIONS
Despite modest gains in some regions in the world over the past two decades, women are more likely than men to become and remain unemployed, have...
Youth Day 2017: Young Workers Stand up for Their Rights at Work
With youth unemployment rates at record highs and working poverty levels increasing, young workers around the world faced with a lack of decent jobs...
May Day 2017: Standing up for Worker Rights across the Globe
From Cambodia to Zimbabwe, in Serbia and Honduras, hundred of thousands of workers and their families are celebrating International Workers Day,...
Solidarity Center: 20 Years Working for Worker Rights
Over the past 20 years, the Solidarity Center has helped eliminate child labor in Liberian rubber plantations; assisted Iraqi trade unions in...
Workers Rights Are Human Rights: Working People Exercise Freedom of Association
In recent decades, the global economy has grown rapidly. But as global production has increased, so too has global inequality. Inequality has...