Promoting Worker Rights Worldwide
Quarterly Highlights
January - March, 2024


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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.

GLOBAL UNION LEADERS FIGHT FOR WORKER RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY

As part of the Global Labor Leadership Initiative (GLLI), 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. 

GROUNDBREAKING UZBEKISTAN COTTON PROJECT LAUNCHES

A cooperative agreement inked in January will improve working conditions and prevent forced labor 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.

PHOTO ESSAY

BLACK WOMEN LABOR LEADERS UNITE TO ADDRESS GLOBAL ISSUES

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 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. 

NEW VIDEOS

Check out what women labor leadersand our partnersfrom 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

THE PHILIPPINES: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE LABOR MOVEMENT

The Philippines is ranked among the 10 worst countries for workers, but unions are advancing worker rights, calling for higher minimum wages and standing up to union-busting.

REPORT: IDENTIFYING EFFECTIVE WORKER VOICE

A new report 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.

KOSOVO TEACHERS LEAD NATIONAL PUSH FOR BETTER MENTAL HEALTH IN SCHOOLS

Kosovo's teachers are forging a shared agenda amongst schools, families, communities and policymakers to build a multi-tiered mental health support system. 

KENYA: SOLIDARITY CENTER CONDEMNS ATTACK ON LABOR LEADER

The Solidarity Center strongly condemns the excessive and unnecessary force used by police against Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union Secretary General Dr. Davji Attellah.

BUILDING WORKER POWER IN MEXICAN AND U.S. AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES

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

The ILAW Network's new report, A Promised Not Realised: The Right to Non-Discrimination in Work and Employment, 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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