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Promoting Worker Rights Worldwide
Quarterly Highlights
April - June, 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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** C190: MORE THAN A LEGAL INSTRUMENT, A ‘BEACON OF HOPE’ ([link removed])
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Five years after its adoption by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Violence and Harassment Convention, C190 ([link removed]) , calls on governments, employers and unions to work together to confront the root causes of GBVH, including multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination, gender stereotypes and unequal gender-based power relationships. Activists discussed progress and challenges to ending work-related harassment and violence at a recent event co-sponsored by the Solidarity Center.
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** SPEAKING OUT AGAINST ANTI-WORKER VIOLENCE
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On the first anniversary of Bangladeshi union leader Shahidul Islam's murder ([link removed]) , the Solidarity Center calls for the reopening of the police investigation to hold primary culprits accountable and an end to unjust labor practices and the ongoing harassment of labor activists.

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The Solidarity Center condemns the June 15 murder of Guatemala garment union leader Anastacio Tzib Caal ([link removed]) , who was murdered after union leaders at his apparel factory received numerous death threats. The ITUC has again rated Guatemala as one of the 10 worst countries in the world to be a worker.


** IN MEMORIAM
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The global labor movement lost a friend and advocate, and the Solidarity Center a dear colleague, with the passing of Laurence “Laurie” Clements ([link removed]) on April 19 after a lengthy and courageous battle with cancer. Laurie joined the Solidarity Center in 2001 as country program director in Serbia. His dedication and passion for our mission took him to the Middle East and North Africa region in 2005. His leadership and invaluable contributions to our work, which we remember with deep gratitude, are a testament to his unwavering commitment.


** PHOTO ESSAY
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In Nigeria, the widespread issue of gender-based violence and harassment (GBVH) impacts many. However, recent years have seen increased efforts to tackle GBVH, including advocacy, awareness campaigns and support for survivors. Artistic initiatives like “Mista Silas: A Tale of Unheard Voices,” ([link removed]) which was supported by the Solidarity Center, are pivotal, amplifying the voices of the affected and raising awareness about the issue.


** NEW VIDEO
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Tanneries are a highly polluting industry, using and releasing dangerous chemicals into the environment. Through their union, Bangladesh's tannery workers are demanding safer, greener jobs ([link removed]) to better protect themselves and all those who must live in communities located near polluting tanneries.


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** SOLIDARITY CENTER AND PARTNER NEWS
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On International Domestic Workers Day, the Solidarity Center applauds global women union leaders ([link removed]) who urge governments and employers to recognize care work as a public good and to ensure care workers, including migrant workers, receive the same basic rights as other workers.

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** WEST AFRICA: UNION HEALTH CARE CAMPAIGN EXPANDS REACH
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Through regional and global partnerships and Solidarity Center support, the Organization of Trade Unions of West Africa (OTUWA) is expanding the reach of its "Health Care is a Human Right" advocacy campaign ([link removed]) for increased budgetary allocation to health care in the region.
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** UKRAINE: DOMESTIC WORKERS WIN WITH NEW LAW
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Domestic workers in Ukraine won a significant victory ([link removed]) when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a new law regulating domestic work and affording new protections to domestic workers.

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** PHILIPPINES: GARMENT WORKERS STRUGGLE AGAINST UNION BUSTING
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Garment workers in Cebu province’s economic processing zones face an uphill battle in their fight for better working conditions. ([link removed]) Factory managers are pushing back with anti-union tactics, including firing union leaders.
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** GEORGIA APP WORKER: ‘SOLIDARITY AND UNITY IN PROTECTING OUR RIGHTS ARE ESSENTIAL’
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Unions in the Republic of Georgia are fighting for platform worker rights ([link removed]) through advocacy campaigns, legal challenges and organizing drives in the face of intense pushback from exploitive global app-based companies.


** NEW PUBLICATIONS
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This ILAW Network issue brief, ([link removed]) researched and drafted by Dr. Barbora Černušáková, maps some of the legal initiatives and strategies undertaken by workers and unions, and outlines opportunities for workers to challenge breaches of technology-driven labor rights through organizing, regulation and litigation. The goal of this brief is to inform a debate on effective strategies for the global labor movement vis-à-vis technology.


** SOLIDARITY CENTER IN THE NEWS
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April 2024
* Complaints over Myanmar’s Manufacturing Sector Tripled in 2023, Report Finds ([link removed])
* Mexican Unions Ask in the U.S. to Strengthen the USMCA Labor Mechanism ([link removed])


May 2024
* Manufacturers Looking for Low Costs, Easy Access to U.S. Market, Turn to Mexico, Not China ([link removed])


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