A digest of media coverage of issues that affect workers, their rights and organizations, or mention the work of the Solidarity Center, delivered three times a week.
In the NewsNLC Reiterates Call for Labor, Employers’ Inclusion in NCCC Governing Structures The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) has again called for immediate inclusion of workers and employers’ representatives in the governing structures of the National Council on Climate Change (NCCC). ILO Senior Specialist Inviolata Chinyangarara congratulated the NLC for several national, regional and global initiatives aimed at strengthening workers’ knowledge and understanding of climate change and just transition, some of which initiatives have been implemented in collaboration with partners such as the FES and the Solidarity Center.
CSDDD – A Timid Step Forward in the Fight Against Corporate Human Rights Abuse Following the significant weakening of the final text of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive by some EU member states, we have considerable doubts as to whether it is sufficiently ambitious to deliver meaningful results for the world’s workers and trade unions, say Jeffrey Vogt, Solidarity Center rule of law director and co-founder and chair of the International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network; Ruwan Subasinghe, legal director at the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF); and Paapa Danquah, legal director at the International Trade Union Confederation.