Building Collective Power

Challenges of Organizing Informal Workers

Challenges in organizing the informal workforce can be specific to the sector or local context, but the challenges in this overview are similar...

The History of Organizing Informal Workers

Organizing informal workers has a long history. At the dawn of the industrial capitalist age in the eighteenth-century, the whole economy...

Collective Bargaining in the Informal Economy

Why Organizing Matters

Organizing gives the poorest segments of the working class – those working in the informal economy, and especially women – a way to be seen...

Un nouveau projet qui explore comment les récupérateurs et récupératrices de matériaux peuvent aider à résoudre la crise des déchets plastiques dans les océans

Un entretien (Q&R) avec Taylor Cass Talbott Il est difficile de passer à côté des images choquantes de tas de plastiques flottant au...

Organizing for Success and Service in Accra

Naana Adede, Accra, Ghana(2012) There is no running water at the Temas Station market in Accra, Ghana, but heavy rain has left dark puddles,...

Waste Integration in South Africa (WISA)

Informal waste pickers play an integral role in South Africa’s waste industry and keep tonnes of material out of landfills. Now, they are...

Domestic Workers and C189: Making it Real, Africa

Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention...

Domestic Workers and C189: Power and Skills to Make it Real

• May 24, 2019 - May 26, 2019
• Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

International Domestic Worker Federation (IDWF) affiliates from across Africa gathered in May at this workshop, aimed at strengthening worker...

WIEGO at the International Labour Conference 2019

• June 8, 2019 - July 21, 2019
• ILO Headquarters
  Geneva, Switzerland

A historic instrument on Ending Violence and Harassment in the World of Work was adopted at the International Labour Conference (ILC) in...