Workers memorial day April 28

Workers' Memorial Day is our opportunity to remember victims of workplace injuries and disease. It is also our opportunity to bring together workers, their families, community-based worker centers, unions, environmentalists, and other health and safety advocates in a unified...

50 million job losses projected worldwide for 2009 - ILO

Massive job losses around the world will mark the end of the first decade of the 21st century, with the United Nations' International Labour Organization (ILO) projecting 50 million by the end of 2009. " Worldwide...

Maids Still Banned from Swimming at Peru Beaches

  It sounds like a scene straight out of the Jim Crow era in the American South, but it’s happening today in coastal Peru: discriminatory laws in some exclusive seaside resorts prohibit maids (nearly all of whom are poor Andean and black...

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