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Unions · RomeThe headquarters of Italy's CGIL union in Rome were deserted when neo-fascists tried to smash their way in after an anti-vax protest in October 2021. “I wasn't in the building when it was attacked,” says Salvatore Marra, CGIL's head of European and international policies. “It was a Saturday afternoon, and our offices were closed but if people had been here, they would have been severely injured because these thugs had sticks, machetes and other …Read Article
Trade unions in the long shadow of Europe's far right
Bom Jesus · Bom JesusQuebradeiras de coco babaçu (‘babassu coconut breakers') are groups formed by rural women from northern and north-eastern Brazil who earn their livelihood by harvesting and processing the fruit of the babaçu palm (Attalea speciosa). This plant, native to the Amazon rainforest, is abundant in the Cocais forest – a transition zone between the Amazon and the semi-arid biome of north-eastern Brazil. These palm groves are deeply connected to the iden…Read Article
In Brazil's forests, babaçu nut gatherers battle for communal rights
Oviedo, Spain · OviedoIn Spain, two distinct groups of workers are facing a strikingly similar challenge as they approach retirement. On one side are members of mutual societies from liberal professions such as architecture and law, now reaching pension age; on the other, app-based delivery riders working in a young, precarious industry. Despite vast differences in background and working conditions, both face the same harsh reality: pensions too low to live on. While…Read Article
Precarious pensioners, past and future: mutualists and couriers – two sides of the same fight
“It's an uphill struggle to run a trade union in Hong Kong” – but still, they organise
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43% Left coverage: 7 sources
Under neoliberal fire, the right to strike is waning, globally, after years of premeditated attacks to limit it
ILO’s commitment to developing binding global standards deemed a “positive breakthrough”
100% Left coverage: 1 sources
