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Published in: Home: NewsHome Office paying asylum seekers £1 an hour to clean detention centresExclusive: Detainees worked a million hours on £1 wages in past five years, sparking claims of government exploitation
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Published in: 50.50: NewsAmnesty International accused of gender discrimination by former staffEXCLUSIVE: Ex-staff say Amnesty International Hungary has failed to tackle systemic abuse and a culture of misogyny
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Published in: Home: OpinionHow industrial action could make the UK more democraticOPINION: The RMT, postal workers and nurses are preparing to strike. It's good news for anyone interested in social mobility
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Published in: oDR: NewsUK MPs demand ‘just reconstruction’ in Ukraine amid fears for workers’ rightsMoney for Ukraine’s recovery must ‘not disappear into the hands of oligarchs’, Nadia Whittome told openDemocracy
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Published in: Home: FeatureRevealed: How climate crisis is leaving UK gig workers out in the heatAs temperatures reached 40C in July, food couriers had to put themselves at risk or lose vital work
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Published in: Home: NewsLabour silent on calls for £15 minimum wage that would ‘change lives’The Trade Union Congress has demanded a minimum wage hike amid the ‘harshest wage squeeze in modern history’
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Published in: Home: NewsSunak’s jobs scheme left young people in debt and failed to vet employersExclusive: Under-25s were treated like ‘free bodies’ under the government’s £1.9bn Kickstart project
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Published in: 50.50: NewsMost workplace sex harassment cases fail as Tories drag feet over reformsFour years on from damning report, government has failed to bring forward promised legislation to protect workers...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionOur ancestors worked less and had better lives. What are we doing wrong?In an age of both untold prosperity and existential crisis, it’s time to rethink work
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Published in: Migrant Futures: AnalysisHow COVID-19 exposed Canada’s treatment of migrant workersThere was a discrepancy between the discourses of the ‘heroism’ of Canada’s essential workers – many of whom are...
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Published in: Home: OpinionShaping a new social contract through the pandemicThe actions of governments, business, investors and civil society in response to COVID-19 will shape our futures.
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Published in: ourEconomyPost-capitalists must understand the role of migration in global capitalismReal transformation can only happen if those in the global north join forces with migrants and exploited workers in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKEnd the counter-productive and costly 'work ban' on people seeking asylumThe UK ignores international conventions by preventing people seeking asylum from finding work. Relaxing the...
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Published in: ourEconomyOutsourcing exploitation: global labor-value chainsThrough their control over supply chains, multinationals based in the global north exploit workers in the global south.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy it's time to end discrimination against self-employed parentsCampaigners and MPs are calling on the government to ensure fairer rights for both self-employed parents, and for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOpposing labour market UberculosisUber is appealing the ruling that its drivers deserve workers’ rights. Meanwhile its drivers show strike action is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRace and exploitation in the GulfIt is time for the issue of race to become central to any discussion on the continued exploitation of workers in the Gulf.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhere are the workers?Even though the number of strikes and industrial actions in Egypt has skyrocketed since the mid 2000s, labour's...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMigrant domestic workers in Lebanon: a case study in the global labour hierarchy of gender, race, and nationalityThe plight of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon is not just a legal issue that can be solved by reforming the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHistory is on McCluskey's side: Unite must go beyond the lawAs has happened time and time again, trade unions are being repressed and sidelined, the future of workers' rights...
