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Labour law only “sees” employees. It resists the idea that self-employed workers in the informal economy, such as street vendors and waste pickers, should also be the subjects of labour law wiego.org/blog/challenging-b… @PamhidzaiBamu @jeffreysvogt
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🗣️ Our voices matter! Worker organizations and trade unions from key garment-producing countries are speaking up against the EU Commission's Omnibus proposal that threatens the #CSDDD!
📢 Millions of workers depend on it, including #Homeworkers!
✍️ Read our Open Letter: loom.ly/cUBjC6g
#NoToOmnibus #YesToCSDDD #HomeworkersRights #WorkersRights
If governments cannot create jobs, yet criminalize citizens who create their own jobs, they risk social instability. Yet governments routinely refuse to engage with inform wiego.org/blog/hungry-trader…
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In some African cities, the spirit of colonialism lives on in how street vendors are treated by govts.
@marlesevb writes, "Branded as ‘development’ & in pursuit of attaining status as a ‘world-class city,’ their policies perpetuate colonial legacies."
👉bit.ly/3Khzkar
A joy to moderate a panel discussion on Convention 189 on decent work for domestic workers with the General Secretaries Nellie Kahua & Ruth Sakala of #domesticworker unions in Nambia and Zambia & @PamhidzaiBamu at the @AfricanLLS conference. @IDWFED @WIEGOGLOBAL @ILAW_Network
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Will Immigrant Workers in Britain Become Europe’s First Amazon Union?
3,000 Amazon workers at a warehouse in Coventry, England are poised to become the first recognized Amazon union in all of Europe.
labornotes.org/2024/07/will-…
@Lfelizleon
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The @ILAW_Network bringing together worker-side labour lawyers from around the world has been very busy this year.
Here are some the network's amazing recent publications:
1. Latest issue of the ILAW Journal: Forging a Feminist Labour Law
LINK: ilawnetwork.com/wp-content/u…
What a fantastic 4 days. I learnt new theoretical lenses but mostly loved the time with critical thinkers and passionate people: activist scholars and practitioners committed to the many workers excluded from labour law. Thanks @VPietrogiovanni @Clmumme @mdiasabey @FotisVergis
Second day of the 2024 #WTFLabourLaw Camp:
Vibrant discussions on substance, critique, and tactics on Challenging the Binary Divide in the beautiful space that is the former Bari Tobacco Factory now housing @portafuturobari .
#LabourLaw #Disruption #MLC
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⛔️In 2024, 79% of countries severely restricted/ abolished the #RightToCollectiveBargaining. Govts refused to engage with trade unions, & employers exploited weak laws to avoid negotiations, undermining workers' rights. #RightsIndex24 #DRC @ituc_africa
👉globalrightsindex.org
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TOP Brand sauce manufacturing workers in Sandton down tools for higher wages
groundup.org.za/article/top-… by Kimberly Mutandiro
My blog discusses structural unemployment and the dream of #worldclass cities: urban renewal programmes that result in mass forced removals of #streetvendors from their workplaces and yet the right to work is enshrined in international law @CitiesAlliance
Governments are trying to erase informal traders from public spaces.
@ilo developed a Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, also known as R204, that presents guidelines for changing this scenario.
👉 Learn more in our blog: bit.ly/3Khzkar
ALT "R204 recognizes that public space is a workplace. It also provides guidance for street vendors and local authorities to reach solutions together through collective negotiations." Marlese von Broembsen, WIEGO's Law Programme Director
Important message from the general secretary of the international domestic workers’ federation :
🙋🏽♀️ The voices and experiences of #DomesticWorkers must be taken into account in the design of any public policy on care. #DomesticWork IS care work‼️
🛎️ Nothing about us without us!
#ILC2024
#CareForThoseWhoCareForYou
#CareEconomy
#DecentWork
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Newly elected Chairperson of Lagos Chapter of FIWON (in red, on the left) takes a lead in the anti hunger protests in Lagos today...
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Sin perspectivas laborales, muchxs #trabajadorxs crean su propio empleo, pero los Gobiernos insisten en criminalizarlxs.
@marlesevb reflexiona sobre los riesgos de esta criminalización y cómo los Gobiernos y lxs trabajadorxs pueden encontrar soluciones: bit.ly/4bMdFTS
ALT Lee nuestro nuevo blog. "No Le Pidan ue se Calme a Unx Comerciante con Hambre"
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Excellent blog on how World Bank funded programs are leading to the eviction of 1,000s of street vendors from workplaces across Africa, driving up already high unemployment. Governments should be negotiating with vendors to find solutions that respects their right to work.
With no prospect of employment, citizens are creating their own jobs. Still, governments insist on criminalizing these #workers.
@marlesevb reflects on the risks of criminalization & explores how govts and workers can work together to reach solutions: bit.ly/3Khzkar
ALT Read our new blog: "A Hungry Trader is An Angry Trader"
Thousands of #vendors in Africa are evicted from trading sites as part of world-bank funded urban renewal programs. As governments and elites chase “world class city status” they are denying need citizens the right to work enshrined in the AU Charter on Human and People’s Rights
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Let's get a tried and tested, tireless activist for the people into parliament. #fixthestate #SAElections @ZackieAchmat @Zackie2024 #equalityforall
"This is a historic election because independents are allowed to stand for the first time but that doesn't fix anything. My job as an independent is not one as an individual, it working as part of a movement and our job is to help #fixthestate," says @ZackieAchmat
#VoteZackie
