British Columbian workers in the public sector, transit and transportation have voted to take job action in recent weeks to fight for their right to earn livable wages.
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If the labour movement can organize and mobilize working people in B.C. and Canada, the change could be significant.
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New Zealand has reached the lowest unemployment rate in decades but low wage workers may still struggle to negotiate an increase in wages.
Ethiopian women at a garment factory at the Hawassa Industrial Park in the country’s southern region.
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In democratic contexts, getting women into work empowers them. In autocracies like Ethiopia’s, this doesn’t hold. We found out why.
Ontario Federation of Labour rallies in May called for improving workers’ rights and repairing deep inequalities that have been highlighted and deepened by the pandemic.
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In this time of unrest, insecurity and fear, unions and their new, more diverse leadership offer a path to improving workers’ rights and repairing deep social and economic inequalities.
The TV show ‘Severance’ has employees separate their work self from their home self completely.
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The work-life balance is about more than shutting off devices or abstaining from emails and meetings after 6 p.m.
Amazon has historically opposed trade union recognition by engaging in union suppression practices, like resisting trade union recognition through coercion.
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Amazon can become the Earth’s best employer, but this must involve democratizing the workplace, recognizing the legitimate right of employees to organize and cooperating with labour representatives.
Bread sellers display at roadside in Lagos.
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In the face of rising food prices in Nigeria, many salary earners have had to change the quality of foodstuff they buy or opt for cheaper alternatives.
The pandemic and the aging population are both partially responsible for the current labour shortage.
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With employers struggling to hire enough workers, reliance on automation is becoming more of a necessity than just a source of competitive advantage.
Staten Island’s Amazon distribution centre union organizer Chris Smalls celebrates with union members after getting the voting results to unionize their warehouse on April 1, 2022.
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Staten Island’s Amazon union has proven that one of the most powerful anti-union companies in North America can be unionized.
An Instacart worker loads groceries into her car for home delivery. There is a strong argument to be made that gig work is false self-employment, meaning that workers are not actually freelance.
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Feudalism has been replaced by capitalism, and the new villeiny — or neo-villeiny — has emerged to reflect a relationship between a worker and an organization.
Gig work is at a greater risk of monopsony than other platforms because of the role platform owners play as regulators and collectors of user data.
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New legislation could strengthen the social contract between workers and platforms.
Although the pandemic was an accelerant, labour shortages have plagued the hospitality industry for years.
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The claim that workers are simply moving to white-collar sectors obscures structural barriers to labour mobility, including racism and discrimination.
Painting by artist Arnaud Adami, exhibited at Galerie Valerie Delaunay, Paris 2021.
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How do we take care of delivery riders who are often exposed to multiple risks? What are their needs in terms of social protection? Researchers asked them these questions directly.
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Black Friday, Christmas, and other ‘shopping events’ take a toll on the temporary workers hired to get purchases to consumers.
The commentary made by the hit show may seem absurd, but it’s uncomfortably close to the truth.
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In the hit Korean Netflix show ‘Squid Game,’ players are required to sign dubiously ethical contracts as their lives are assigned monetary value.
Two foreign workers in a mining project in Konawe, Southeast Sulawesi.
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Southeast Asia’s largest economy applies different standards when it comes to upholding work rights for migrant workers from Indonesia and other countries.
Informal workers in West Africa have been hardest hit by covid-19 lockdowns.
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Informal employment is significant in sub-Saharan Africa. The plight of informal workers needs to be highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A waitress wears a mask while carrying drinks for guests inside the Blu Martini restaurant in Kingston, Ont., in July 2021.
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Should the chronic hiring struggles of Canadian restaurants be referred to as a labour shortage, or can it be more accurately portrayed as a retention issue fuelled by a lack of decent work?
Young people wait to register at a South African university in 2012. They are bearing the brunt of high levels of unemployment.
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Can the structural barriers to low-skilled employment growth be overcome?
Los Angeles Rams quarterback Jared Goff throws a pass against the Seattle Seahawks during the first half of an NFL wild-card playoff football game in Seattle in January. The Rams will have to count Goff’s signing bonus towards their salary cap for the next four years, despite trading him to Detroit.
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NFL salary caps were originally introduced to make the league more competitive and reduce performance differences between small and large market teams. But they have also worked out well for players.