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Promoting Worker Rights Worldwide
Quarterly Highlights
July - September, 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.


** CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH
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** REPORT: WITH UNIONS, WORKERS EXPERIENCE LESS HEAT STRESS ([link removed])
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Ground-breaking research commissioned by the Solidarity Center and shared at a Climate Week event finds that workers suffering from heat and other environmental stresses are best able to address the effects of climate change when they do so collectively, including bargaining for safe conditions through their unions.
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** WORKERS FIGHT FOR THEIR RIGHTS
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** REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA: ONLINE GAMING WORKERS’ STRIKE MET WITH THREATS ([link removed])
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Workers at online gaming company Evolution Georgia, on strike for better pay and safer working conditions, say they face intimidation and physical violence as the company attempts to break their strike rather than continue contract negotiations. More than 4,000 of the company’s 8,000 workers have walked off the job since July 12.
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** IN MEMORIAM
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** SOLIDARITY CENTER MOURNS THE PASSING OF BILL LUCY ([link removed])
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Bill Lucy was a U.S. labor movement giant ([link removed]) —Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), and founder of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU). A civil rights activist and once-in-a-generation leader, his impact will be felt forever.
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** SPEAKING OUT AGAINST ANTI-WORKER VIOLENCE
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The Solidarity Center condemned the brutal murder of well-known land and human rights defender Juan Ló Pesca in Honduras ([link removed]) , and called for a transparent investigation into the crime and punishment of those who played any role in his untimely death.


** NEW VIDEO
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On International Day of Democracy, our executive director, Shawna Bader-Blau, shared how unions play a critical role in ensuring the needs of working people are reflected in societies ([link removed]) .


** SOLIDARITY CENTER AND PARTNER NEWS
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** LIBERIA: FIRESTONE CONTRACT WORKERS WIN UNION, EQUITY
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In a significant win for equity on Firestone Liberia’s rubber plantation in Harbel ([link removed]) , more than 90 percent of contract workers voted to join the Firestone Agricultural Workers’ Union of Liberia (FAWUL).

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** CAMBODIA: SOLIDARITY CENTER CELEBRATES RELEASE OF IMPRISONED UNION LEADER SITHAR CHHIM
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The Solidarity Center celebrated the release of Sithar Chhim ([link removed]) , president of Cambodia's Labor Rights Supported Union of NagaWorld, unjustly imprisoned in 2022 after she and others walked the picket line.
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** IRAQ: WOMEN WIN LEADERSHIP OF NEW FARMERS UNION
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For the first time in Iraq’s Hawija District, women were elected to leadership positions in a new union ([link removed]) they helped organize and form.

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** LATIN AMERICAN DOMESTIC WORKERS CELEBRATE, PLAN TO EXPAND SUCCESS
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Over eight years, the Leadership for Unity, Renewal and Amplification (LUNA) has empowered 200 leaders across Latin America ([link removed]) . They have enhanced their strategic, leadership, and advocacy skills while adding tens of thousands of new union members.
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** CENTRAL ASIA: ‘WE MUST ACT TOGETHER, COMBINING OUR EFFORTS’
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Nearly two dozen participants from three countries joined in a Solidarity Center leadership seminar in Kyrgyzstan ([link removed]) to discuss strategies for labor relations in inspectorates, unions and NGOs to fight corruption.

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** BRAZIL DRIVERS: IFOOD MUST KEEP US SAFE, PAY DECENT WAGES
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iFood delivery drivers in Brazil grapple with strenuous workdays ([link removed]) , insufficient pay and inadequate company support. Their wages do not cover living costs, forcing extended work hours.
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** PHILIPPINES: HOTEL WORKERS WIN AGREEMENT AMID CLOSURE, CALL FOR JOB SECURITY
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Unions of the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila say they will continue to fight for job security ([link removed]) amid securing an agreement with management to reinstate workers once the hotel reopens after a renovation.


** SOLIDARITY CENTER IN THE NEWS
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July 2024
* NLC, TUC Other Stakeholders Seek End to Violence, Harassment at Workplace ([link removed])

August 2024
* What Bangladesh’s Political Shake-Up Means for Fashion ([link removed])

September 2024
* Firestone Liberia Contractors Vote to Unionize; Bridgestone Says Third-Party Workers Not Eligible to Join FAWUL Union ([link removed])

October 2024
* Heat Check: Searing Temps Lead to Unsafe Working Conditions in the Global South ([link removed])

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