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Promoting Worker Rights Worldwide
Quarterly Highlights
January - March, 2024

Welcome!
The Quarterly Highlights is a snapshot of Solidarity Center programs and organizational activities. The Solidarity Center works around the globe helping workers build collective voice and more just societies through organizing and advocacy.
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** GLOBAL UNION LEADERS FIGHT FOR WORKER RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY
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As part of the Global Labor Leadership Initiative (GLLI) ([link removed]) , a Solidarity Center partnership with the Worker Institute at Cornell, 22 union leaders and allies from 17 countries spent two days in Washington, DC, discussing movement building, the platform economy and strategies to tackle challenges affecting working people, often in the face of brutal conditions.
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** GROUNDBREAKING UZBEKISTAN COTTON PROJECT LAUNCHES
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A cooperative agreement inked in January will improve working conditions and prevent forced labor ([link removed]) for workers at all stages of cotton and textile production in Uzbekistan. Signatories include the U.S.-based Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the employers’ Association of Cotton-Textile Clusters of Uzbekistan, the Solidarity Center and the Uzbekistan Ministry of Employment.


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** BLACK WOMEN LABOR LEADERS UNITE TO ADDRESS GLOBAL ISSUES
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Black women across the world are experiencing similar struggles and the best way to face those challenges is solidarity, coalition building and convenings, say Solidarity Center partners who joined the recent Black Women’s Roundtable‘s (BWR) 13th Annual “Women of Power” Summit ([link removed]) in Washington, DC. The 26 international participants, all Black women labor leaders from 14 countries in Africa and the Americas, joined the summit for a day focused on global issues.


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Check out ([link removed]) what women labor leaders—and our partners—from around the world had to say about creating a more equitable work environment, at the recent UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) confab in New York.


** SOLIDARITY CENTER AND PARTNER NEWS
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** THE PHILIPPINES: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE LABOR MOVEMENT
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The Philippines is ranked among the 10 worst countries for workers, but unions are advancing worker rights ([link removed]) , calling for higher minimum wages ([link removed]) and standing up to union-busting ([link removed]) .

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** REPORT: IDENTIFYING EFFECTIVE WORKER VOICE
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A new report ([link removed]) by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) shows that when workers can "speak up, articulate and manifest collective agency," they can improve their jobs and contribute to democratic participation beyond the workplace.
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** KOSOVO TEACHERS LEAD NATIONAL PUSH FOR BETTER MENTAL HEALTH IN SCHOOLS
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Kosovo's teachers ([link removed]) are forging a shared agenda amongst schools, families, communities and policymakers to build a multi-tiered mental health support system.

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** KENYA: SOLIDARITY CENTER CONDEMNS ATTACK ON LABOR LEADER
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The Solidarity Center strongly condemns the excessive and unnecessary force used by police ([link removed]) against Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union Secretary General Dr. Davji Attellah.


** BUILDING WORKER POWER IN MEXICAN AND U.S. AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES
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Mexican and U.S. labor leaders met in Detroit to share challenges and victories and discuss how they can work together to improve the lives of automotive workers in both countries. The meeting was part of a solidarity project launched by the UAW to build worker power across borders.


** NEW PUBLICATIONS
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The ILAW Network's new report, A Promised Not Realised: The Right to Non-Discrimination in Work and Employment ([link removed]) , focuses on why discrimination in the workplace persists despite laws and regulations that prohibit it, and how countries can create enabling environments to effectively prevent workplace discrimination and remedy it when it occurs.


** SOLIDARITY CENTER IN THE NEWS
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January 2024
* U.S.-Backed Project Aims to Eliminate Forced Labor in Uzbek Cotton Supply Chain ([link removed])
* Can a DOL-Backed Program Turn Uzbek Cotton’s ‘Yellow Light’ Green? ([link removed])

March 2024
* Gig Workers on Delivery Apps Rent Accounts to Get Around Bans ([link removed]) (Brazil, Mexico)
* Pay to Work: Rappi Now Charges Delivery Drivers in Brazil a Weekly Fee ([link removed]) (Brazil)


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