A National Advisory Council (NAC) working group has recommended a social healthcare enterprise model for the delivery of universal health coverage (UHC) in India.
Reema Nanavaty of Self Employed Women’s Association (Sewa) received the Padma Shri award from the president of India Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday evening.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has begun paying closer attention to the organisation of informal economy workers into their ranks to ensure their protection, provide them with voice and representation and to mobilize them to be part of the trades union movement.
Early data emerging from the ongoing survey of trade unions in India have revealed they are growing by leaps and bounds from what they were five years ago, contrary to popular belief they are losing their sheen and diminishing by size with the rapid contractualisation of labour.
GARMENT and footwear workers across the country will be paid a minimum wage of $75 per month – an increase of $14 – beginning in May, according to a document released by the Ministry of Social Affairs this morning.
Workers at a Cambodian garment factory, that provides items for big fashion brands like Diesel, spirit and Marks & Spencer, continue to face a campaign of violence and intimidation as they fight for basic labour rights.
On 10 March more than 400 garment workers, members of IndustriALL Global Union’s affiliate FTZ-GSEU, demonstrated and demanded that the Sri Lankan government collaborate with unions to keep their industry in the country.
US Department of State issued a bold new statement urging US companies to do more to protect workers in Bangladesh. This attention comes in the wake of the tragic Tazreen factory fire in November 2012 that killed over 100 workers. Many of these workers leapt to their deaths from a building with no emergency exits. The factory was exposed throughout world media as producing goods for Walmart, Disney, Sears and Ikea. Would it surprise you to learn that the factory was used by companies who make federal uniforms? Labor rights organizations were able to photograph labels in the factory wreckage linking Tazreen to two US government contractors.
