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Workshop Brazil’s Integrated Education and Solidarity Economy: Opening Pathways to Income and Citizenship Participants • Ruth Needleman, Professor Emerita, Labor Studies Program, Indiana University, USA • Eunice Maria Dias Wolf, Secretary of Social Development, City...
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Concurrent Workshops • Union Strategies to Increase Women’s Participation in Brazil: Perspectives from Industrial, Public and Service Sectors
Workshop Union Strategies to Increase Women’s Participation in Brazil: Perspectives from Industrial, Public and Service Sectors Participants • Mara Luiza Feltes, Woman Secretariat, CONTRACS, Brazil • Monica Veloso, Secretary of Work, City of Osasco & National...
Plenary Leadership, Transformation and Labor Rights: The Essential Vision and Role of Women
Labor Historian Dorothy Sue Cobble discussed women's long history of union activism. Photo: Matt Hersey Plenary Leadership, Transformation and Labor Rights: The Essential Vision and Role of Women Panelists • Dorothy Sue Cobble, Distinguished Professor, Department of...
Women’s Empowerment, Gender Equality, and Labor Rights
Plenary Opening Remarks and Welcome Keynote • Shawna Bader-Blau, Executive Director, Solidarity Center Welcome • Rosana Sousa de Deus, Executive Committee, Central Única dos Trabalhadores, CUT • Cássia Bufelli, Women’s Secretary, União Geral dos Trabalhadores, UGT...
World Day Against Child Labor: A Focus on Pakistan Brick Kilns
The persistence of child labor—more than 215 million children toil worldwide, some half of whom are exposed to hazardous environments and suffer forced labor and prostitution—is a global shame, one highlighted each June 12 on World Day Against Child Labor. Further, an...
Afro-Colombians Fighting against Discrimination at Work
Afro-Colombians are far likelier than other Colombian workers to earn less than the minimum wage and to be employed in jobs where they cannot form unions to improve their working conditions. And all of this exclusion “has a strong current of racial discrimination...
Working Women Empowered: Building Strength Through Unions
Women make up more than 40.5 percent of the workforce worldwide, according to the most recent data by the International Labor Organization. But their labor has not resulted in a similar increase in financial well-being. Far from it. Although women contribute 66...
SRI LANKA: Migrants Gain Voice and Protections, Sources (2013)
The primary sources for this publication were first-person interviews conducted by the Solidarity Center. Other sources are noted below. "Sri Lanka," BBC Profile-South Asia, March 25, 2013. "Tsunami Death Toll," CNN, February 22, 2005. "More Sri Lankans Suffering...
World Bank Report: Worker Rights Key to Addressing Global Jobs Crisis
As the new year begins, the ongoing global jobs crisis means workers everywhere are still struggling to find employment—some 200 million people, including 75 million age 25 or younger, are unemployed. Millions more, most of them women, are shut out of the labor...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Meets with Cambodian Women Unionists, Defends Worker Rights
During her tour of Southeast Asia, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged the greater protection of worker rights, improvement of labor standards, and the empowerment of women following a private meeting in Cambodia with union leaders and labor...
Informal Economy Conference Agenda
Conference Summary and Proceedings Agenda Friday December 2, 2011 Keynote Address Shawna Bader-Blau, Executive Director, Solidarity Center Research Presentation: Trade Union Responses to Organizing in the Informal Economy Rutgers University researchers Panel Response:...
Report Breaks the Silence on GBVH in Nigeria’s World of Work
A new report by the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) and the Solidarity Center, "Breaking the Silence: Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria’s World of Work," finds that gender-based violence and harassment (GVBH) at work is widespread in Nigeria, but goes largely unreported....
RIGHTS ADVOCATES BUILD SOUTHEAST ASIA CAMPAIGN AGAINST WAGE THEFT
On this year’s July 30 World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, a coalition of rights organizations including the Solidarity Center are highlighting widespread wage theft perpetrated against Southeast Asia’s migrant workers. Although this form of labor exploitation...
Union Women on the COVID-19 Front Lines: The Road to Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit workers hard—but women have especially suffered compared with men, experiencing higher rates of unemployment, discrimination and exposure to the virus, and skyrocketing rates of gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH), speakers said...
Morocco Garment Factory Disaster Results from Supply Chain Demands
A 14-year old girl was among the 28 garment workers killed in a factory disaster in Tangier, Morocco, this week. Her mother says she had worked at the factory, an illegal sweatshop, for three years. The workers were drowned or electrocuted after a flood caused a short...
Report: Climate Change in Bangladesh Drives Worker Vulnerability, Poverty
Underscoring the immediate risk of severe climate-induced weather events in South Asia, Cyclone Amphan last month slammed into the coast of eastern India and southern Bangladesh, destroying thousands of homes and killing at least 88 people. A new Solidarity Center...
Report: Death Threats Among Anti-Union Violence in Guatemala
Threats, including death threats, and intimidation were the most common forms of violence against union activists and workers seeking to form unions in Guatemala last year, according to a new report by the Network of Labor Rights Defenders of Guatemala (REDLG). (Read...
Report Documents Anti-Union Violence in Honduras
Two union leaders in Honduras were murdered in 2019, and dozens more physically attacked, threatened and harassed for their activism in advocating worker rights, according to the just-released report, The Price of Defending Freedom of Association: A Report on...
Stepping into the Breach: Unions Provide Key Aid in COVID-19
More than four out of five people (81 percent) in the global workforce of 3.3 billion are currently affected by full or partial workplace closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 1.25 billion workers are employed in the sectors identified as being at high risk of...
From Haiti to Kenya, Unions Take Action on COVID-19
Just as the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the massive global economic and social inequality around the world, with workers in the informal economy and supply chains, and migrant workers—many of whom are women—especially marginalized, so, too, does it...