Over 10,000 workers at John Deere down tools
Workers at the John Deere plants have claimed that while the company reached record profits, it has insists on cutting workers benefits and wage hikes
10,000 John Deere workers begin largest US private sector strike in years
While the company has earned record profits, workers say their pay and benefits are being undercut
Health workers’ right to strike under threat
Some governments have taken the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to limit people’s rights, including workers’ right to organize. Across the world, health workers who have organized strikes and other actions have faced repression and threats.
COVID-19 laid bare the struggles and exploitation that domestic workers face
While domestic workers number in the tens of millions—constituting a major proportion of India’s workforce—their labor is not formally recognized, and they lack essential rights and guarantees.
Why Amazon is fighting so hard to stop warehouse workers from unionizing
Workers at one of Amazon’s warehouses are deciding whether or not to join a union. Amazon’s union-busting efforts indicate just how important the vote is
Crucial vote to decide unionization of Amazon workers in Alabama
Amazon workers are making history with the second-ever vote on unionization in the company’s US warehouses
Why third world workers were worst hit by the pandemic
Advanced countries have been more open-handed in fiscal support for their economies, in particular for workers, while Third World countries have been extremely niggardly, not necessarily out of choice (except in the case of India)
34 million workers lost jobs in Latin America and Caribbean region due to pandemic: report
The International Labour Organization study based on nine major economies in Latin America and the Caribbean says there was a 21% contraction in working hours in the first three quarters of 2020
