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Quarterly Highlights
October to December 2021

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.
The Solidarity Center Podcast:
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Conversations with workers (and other smart people)
worldwide shaping the workplace for the better,
hosted by Solidarity Center Executive Director Shawna Bader-Blau

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U.S. SUMMIT FOR DEMOCRACY: WORKERS', UNIONS' VITAL ROLE

At an official side event of the U.S. Summit for Democracy, union leaders, labor ministers and philanthropic organizations from around the world highlighted the role of worker voice and rights, and unions as fundamental components of democracy.

CLIMATE ACTIVISTS AT RISK AS MALDIVES FISHERS PROTEST

In a discussion led by UN Special Rapporteur Clément N. Voule, unions underscored their role in protecting climate activists, who are often workers whose livelihoods are being eroded by climate change. As an example, more than 600 fishers in the Maldives rallied to raise concerns about job health and environmentally damaging practices.

ESSENTIAL, INFORMAL WORKERS STILL IMPACTED BY PANDEMIC, BUT SMALL WINS CELEBRATED

Experts and union leaders outlined the increased violence and societal hazards that informal workers face during the pandemic, at a panel marking the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign. Meanwhile, informal street and market vendors in Nigeria and Brazil saw wins.

E. EUROPEAN WOMEN IMPROVE WAGES & JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Prior to the Kazakhstan government's recent attacks on unions, a Solidarity Center partner there successfully advocated to abolish a list of jobs from which women have been legally barred since 1932. In Albania, following a 15-day work stoppage, 125 women improved their wages and working conditions through a new union contract. 
 

PUBLICATIONS

IN THE NEWS
December 2021

Uber, Bolt Drivers Get NLC, TUC, ILAW, Solidarity Center Support Against Unfair Labor Treatment

C-190 Pending Ratification to Eradicate Violence and Harassment at Work

October 2021

Nearly 10 Organizations and Associations Ask the Government to Provide Social Protection to Street Vendors (Cambodia, in Khmer)
 
Call to Build an Environment-Friendly Modern Leather Industry (Bangladesh)
 
Colombian Workers Had No Real Access to Labor Justice During the Pandemic (in Spanish)

 
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