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Collective Bargaining is usually understood as taking place between an employer and employees to achieve a collective agreement, primarily around wages and working conditions. (See the International Labour Organization’s definition of collective bargaining: C154: Collective Bargaining Convention...
Organizing informal workers has a long history. At the dawn of the industrial capitalist age in the eighteenth-century, the whole economy was informal. As Dan Gallin noted in Organizing Informal Workers: Historical Overview , “…in the beginning all workers were informal”. Workers organized into...
Challenges in organizing the informal workforce can be specific to the sector or local context, but the challenges in this overview are similar across all sectors and regions of the world.
Recent Gains Domestic workers have made great strides in organizing globally in recent years. A growing movement led to the formation of the International Domestic Workers’ Network (IDWN) in 2009, which campaigned for an international instrument that would recognize domestic workers and their rights...
History was made on June 16, 2011 when governments, employers and workers from around the world adopted the Convention (C189) and accompanying Recommendation on Decent Work for Domestic Workers at the International Labour Conference (ILC). This was a leap forward for an estimated 50–100 million...
Without strong organizations, home-based workers cannot access information about employment opportunities, workers' rights, changing demands, new designs and techniques, or other information that would allow them to escape the pattern of very low and irregular earnings. Isolation, invisibility and...
On 20 June 1996, homeworkers around the world scored a big win when the International Labour Conference (ILC) adopted the Home Work Convention. This Convention (C177) aims to promote and protect the rights of those who work at home creating products for an employer. But 20 years on, too few...
Waste pickers are increasingly motivated to organize and fight for recognition and a place within formal waste management systems. They are forming cooperatives, associations, unions, movements and networks. The extent and depth to which waste pickers have organized varies across countries and...
Women Organizing for Fair Trade Trading Our Way Up - The story of a women's economic empowerment project in fair trade An action research project examined the experiences of women producers in collective enterprises in seven countries between 2009–2011. The study highlighted the economic and social...
When the International Labour Conference (ILC) was engaged in a process to create a recommendation for transitioning from the informal to the formal economy, home-based workers, street vendors and domestic workers prepared a platform voiced their demands at the ILC 103rd session. Videos (view all...
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Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.