Indian shipbreaking workers win strike9 апреля, 2009New shipbreaking union tests its might as more than 20,000 workers in Alang down tools to protest wage cuts.
IMF congress23 апреля, 2009Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
Labour Films: a tool, not a key to change10 июня, 2008Activist filmmaker Anne Lewis discusses the art of storytelling and recommends that unions develop partnerships with filmmakers to produce more effective labour films.
Metalworkers mobilise against precarious work6 октября, 2008Metalworkers around the world mobilize against precarious work on October 7, a World Day for Decent Work.
Understanding Precarious Work in Africa19 августа, 2009Precarious work has come to be identified as a major problem undermining the gains of the working class and eroding trade union organisation. The IMF has started a global campaign to tackle the issue of precarious work and much of IMF action programme and implementation strategy aims at addressing this issue at various levels and through different methods. What we need to keep in mind though is that conditions are not the same the world over and as affiliates in Africa there is a need to think about and identify issues on precarious work that are most critical to this region and how these issues should be addressed in the broader IMF action programme and implementation strategy. In this article we focus in on some of the key issues that make the experience of precarious work in Africa different from other parts of the world particularly the more industrialised and so called developed nations.
