UPS Teamsters risked their lives during the pandemic. Now UPS is refusing to bargain a fair contract
UPS workers in New York describe the trauma they endured being on the frontlines in the epicenter of the epicenter during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ecuador court upholds Indigenous rights against oil, mining projects and other stories
Today we look at an Ecuador court ruling on Indigenous rights against extractive projects, ongoing anti-coup protests in Sudan, and more
Eyewitness report: Cuba’s scientists, medical workers advance fight vs. COVID
Gloria La Riva was in Cuba speaking to healthcare professionals about the island’s impressive COVID-19 vaccination campaign and how they tackled the latest wave of cases from the Delta variant
COVID-19 tightens its grip on the African continent
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat provides a detailed overview of the economic, social and health impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the African continent
App delivery drivers mobilized across Brazil to demand better work conditions
The national walkout on Wednesday May 1 was organized to demand better conditions for thousands of informal motorcycle delivery workers
Health workers left in the lurch as pandemic spreads in Bangladesh
The International Secretary of the Socialist Student Front in Bangladesh, Manisha Chakraborty, talks about how Bangladesh is coping with the COVID-19 pandemic
Looking at healthcare workers only as heroes does them a disservice
There is a huge lacuna in ensuring adequate compensation for health workers who acquire the illness, despite a broad based demand from the international trade union movement
Doctors in Egypt threaten mass resignation as deaths of colleagues continue
The Egyptian Medical Syndicate issued a formal statement warning of a medical catastrophe in the absence of adequate arrangements of PPEs and tests for medical staff in the country
Strike action looming in South Africa as government downgrades lockdown
Business associations claim that health and safety protocols will be followed, but unions point to previous violations which resulted in a further spread of the epidemic
Two-weeks off after every week of work for nurses in Zimbabwe
An agreement over this work shift was reached between the government and the nurses’ unions on May 13, averting a strike action against the government’s call for nurses to return to full-time work
South Africa’s NUMSA calls out leading company for violating workers’ rights
Excellerate Services, owner of South Africa’s largest private security company, has failed to pay its workers’ outstanding wages while forcing them to work without PPEs, sanitizers and other protective measures, as per the union
New Orleans sanitation workers demand “basic rights that every worker deserves”
Sanitation workers have been on strike since May 5 to demand better conditions and protections amid the coronavirus pandemic
- Right-wing fear mongering over gangs in Colorado obscures larger issue of landlord neglect
- Macron faces protest over appointment of right-wing PM
- Cry of the Excluded marks 30 years defending “true independence” in Brazil
- US accuses Russian media of involvement in “foreign malign influence operation” in upcoming presidential elections
- Mobilizations in India continue for an end to femicide and better security in public spaces
