How South African wineland workers used global networks to fight for their rights: Workers harvest grapes on a wine estate in Stellenbosch outside of Cape Town. Anna Zieminski/AFP via Getty Images) Echoes of apartheid-style exploitation of workers have resurfaced in recent years in South Africa. Debates around these malpractices were given fresh impetus four years …
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers Community Conference – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-12-17 20:00:00 in Canada at Community & Culture 1275 Mississauga Valley Boulevard Mississauga Canada – Add your South African Event here. Have you tried: Diving with Sharks?
Warnings of a ‘race to the bottom’ on workers’ pay and conditions should concern us all: Shutterstock/Andrew Harker The number of people in the UK working on zero-hours contracts has risen sharply over the past decade, from 186,000 people, or 0.6% of the working population, to 896,000 or 2.7%. This sharp expansion of the gig …
Tinnitus: scale of hearing damage for music industry workers revealed: Igor Bulgarin/Shutterstock Hearing loss and tinnitus (ringing, buzzing or whistling noises in the absence of any external sounds) are serious problems for music industry workers. The conditions can affect musical standards, limit employment and damage general wellbeing. Yet music industry workers’ susceptibility to hearing problems …
Why Nigerian women in Oyo state use child domestic workers: Child labour is still endemic in Nigeria. Riccardo Mayer/Shutterstock Hiring domestic servants is a common phenomenon in Nigeria. More often than not this involves vulnerable children being made to work as live-in domestic servants mostly in middle class urban households. Researchers have investigated what creates …
Midlevel workers: Africa’s unsung health heroes need more support: Rural healthcare services are best supported by midlevel workers. Shutterstock Midlevel health workers can play an important role in addressing shortages of health professionals and improving access to care. This is especially true in low and middle-income countries. These workers fill a niche between community health …
How environmental health workers can help climate change mitigation: Environmental health practitioners promote health, safety and well-being. Shutterstock All the evidence tells us that the world’s changing climate will affect more than the environment. It will have serious consequences for people’s health too. Southern Africa is in the eye of the climate change storm. In …
“We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now,” History Professor Annelise Orleck – a Africa interest event taking place on 2019-04-15 17:00:00 in United States Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now" is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through the …
How shareholder profits conquered capitalism – and how workers can win back its benefits for themselves: Wolves on Wall Street, but perhaps the time of shareholders' rule is drawing to an end. robert cicchetti/Shutterstock In the early days of industrial capitalism there were no protections for workers, and industrialists took their profits with little heed …
Labour and John McDonnell are right to give workers a stake, says company law professor: The shadow chancellor’s conference speech on September 24 set out the Labour Party’s radical new economic policies to tackle inequality and increase industrial democracy. John McDonnell paid tribute to the “brilliant” work of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) …
South Africa in the news: White Sasol workers stage protest over black share scheme: JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Workers from South Africa’s mainly white Solidarity union staged a go-slow protest at the petrochemicals firm Sasol on Monday over a share scheme offered exclusively to black …: “South Africa” – BingNews In South Africa, White Sasol Workers …
How health workers have adapted to South Africa’s breastfeeding policy: Shutterstock In the past 20 years there has been a massive global push for mothers to exclusively breastfeed their newborns for the first six months of their lives. The science suggests this is a good way to improve their children’s later development. There has also …
Banning sex work advertising online will put sex workers in danger: Just months after the US government introduced an outright ban on advertising for sexual services, an unlikely coalition of politicians fronted by the Labour MP Sarah Champion held a House of Commons debate calling for similar measures in Britain. Following a report from Champion …
DOCUMENT: Wendy’s Workers Sold Meth From Eatery, Cops Say: JUNE 22–A quartet of fast-food workers sold methamphetamine from a Wendy's in Georgia, according to police who raided the eatery and busted the employees on narcotics charges. Investigators allege that the Wendy's employees sold small amounts of meth both in the parking lot and inside the …
Countries must compete for migrant workers to boost their economies: Instead of keeping migrants out, countries should consider the economic benefits of letting them in. Zoltan Major/Shutterstock Politicians and the media expend inordinate amounts of energy debating migration, often using nativist, populist and xenophobic rhetoric. This is despite the fact that, as of 2017, only …
Karl Marx at 200: why the workers’ way of knowing still matters: Karl Marx. Shutterstock Thinking of the relevance of Karl Marx on the 200th anniversary of his birth on 5 May 1818, takes me back to a wonderful picture of him in Algeria. It was taken in his final year in 1882. Underneath the …
South Africa in the news: Workers’ everyday struggles laid bare during Cape Town street protest: Cosatu also complained about the state of public transport in South Africa, and poor living conditions for workers. Daily Maverick spoke to marchers. Maria Hola has been a cook for a feeding scheme programme provided to Silukhanyo Primary School learners …
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