Sitting targets: negligence and occupational risk in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan writer Shiran Illanperuma takes an intimate look at labor conditions in the island nation, from factories to plantations
Ghana nurses suspend nationwide strike after parliamentary intervention
Nurses across Ghana had been on strike since June 2, 2025, demanding the immediate implementation of the 2024 Collective Bargaining Agreement.
Tennessee rideshare drivers call strike during Country Music Awards
Drivers, organized with the newly-formed Tennessee Drivers Union, are demanding fair pay and better working conditions
IT workers in India continue protests against increase in working hours
Unions claim millions of IT/ITes employees in India are already overworked without adequate compensation and condemn the move to normalize the 14-hour workday
Overworked and understaffed Dollar General workers rally against cost-cuts on safety
Workers in the US rural variety store giant Dollar General protest the company’s cost-cutting policies which has dubbed it a “Severe Violator” of worker safety
Nurses unions in India demand active participation in formulation of workforce policies
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare had released draft guidelines on the working conditions of nursing personnel across both public and private sector establishments in August. Nurses’ unions have complained that the draft was developed without any meaningful consultation with them
Nurses left behind by Croatian government
Nurses in Croatia have taken to the streets, protesting worsening working conditions and lack of recognition of their work by the ministry of health
Case against leaders of South Africa’s shack-dwellers movement dropped and other stories
Today we look at the dismissal of charges against leaders of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the strike by trade unions in Haiti to protest social and economic insecurity, and more
Mass famine looms in Ethiopia’s Tigray region as civil war spreads and other stories
Today we look at the humanitarian crisis in Tigray as the civil war re-escalates, protests for vaccine equity during Angela Merkel’s visit to the US, and more
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
Amazon workers in Europe and North America strike on Prime Day
Thousands of workers protested across Europe and North America over unfair wage practices and working conditions on the occasion of the 48-hour Prime Day shopping festival
Protests break out in Tunisia after the death of 15 agricultural workers in accident
All major opposition parties, including the Workers Party, and trade unions, including the UGTT, have condemned the government’s failure to regulate the work and transport conditions of the agricultural laborers






