Claudia Goldin’s Nobel prize puts women’s labour-force participation and the gender pay gap at the centre of economics.
Por Antara Haldar in Social Europe: ‘Women’s economics’ goes mainstream (socialeurope.eu)
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The presumption of employment status for ‘gig’ workers has been diluted by the member states in negotiations.
Read in Social Europe: Dangers ahead for the platform-work directive (socialeurope.eu)
To really end labour shortages, Ankita Anand writes, Europe must transform its contract with the global south.
To mark UN International Equal Pay Day, 18 September, the ITUC is celebrating success stories from trade unions around the world that have campaigned to tackle the gender pay gap.
UN Special rapporteur Olivier De Schutter just published a report on fighting poverty with decent jobs:
A/HRC/53/33
Don’t know what it means? Then read the article!
Today’s revival of union “salting” could not be more welcome or more urgently needed.
A tactic as old as the labor movement itself, salting describes going to work in an unorganized workplace where there may be a chance to help initiate new union organizing.
It’s also a label for taking jobs at already unionized employers, hoping to play a positive role. But here I will deal with the former: taking jobs to help spur new organizing.
Having battled one crisis after another, a fresh round of austerity could be the last straw for workers.
Mayday, mayday: a warning from the labour movement (socialeurope.eu)
| From Progressive International: |
| This coming Monday, we will join workers around the planet in celebrating the historic victories of the labour movement — and honoring those who continue to struggle for a better world today. International Workers’ Day is a celebration of history — the living, breathing history that is made and remade every day by working people. It was the revolutionary aspirations of workers that brought us the eight-hour workday, the weekend, the minimum wage, and the great processes that, from Petrograd to Yan’an to the Sierra Maestra, took the first bold steps towards socialism and left a permanent mark on our world. International Workers’ Day protests began in 1886. In the United States, mass protests of working people led to a general strike that mobilized 300,000 workers spanning 13,000 businesses across the country. These demonstrations lasted for days. In Chicago, police attacked picketing workers at the McCormick Reaper Works, killing six and injuring many more. The following day, during protests in Haymarket Square against this brutality, a bomb was thrown into the crowd by a suspected industrialist provocateur. In response, the police massacred scores of civilians and later executed prominent leaders of the labor movement. Today, as then, labor remains at the vanguard. From India to Britain, the Republic of Korea to the United States, workers are rising up against the ravages of neoliberalism and reactionary authoritarianism. The struggle is existential. As Workers’ Memorial Day — commemorated today around the world — reminds us, many people never come home from work. In fact, more people are killed at work each year than at war. From the lithium mines of Zimbabwe to the garment factories of Bangladesh, capitalism’s untraceable, global supply chains force workers to risk their lives in the service of bosses, shareholders, and empires. But it is the unemployed and underemployed, the healthcare workers and peasants, the fast food workers and cleaners, the textile weavers and delivery drivers, the sanitation workers, and others who, in their struggles for dignity, democracy, and peace, are history’s motor force. As Karl Marx wrote in the Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: “The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor.” Labor makes our world — and struggle makes us human. On Monday, across the Progressive International family, we will honor all workers — from those who broke the shackles of capital to construct new societies, to those fighting for dignity and rights in the face of brutal exploitation today. “As long as the struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie and the ruling class continues, as long as all demands are not met,” Rosa Luxemburg wrote in 1894, “May Day will be the yearly expression of these demands.” Workers and oppressed peoples of the world, unite! In solidarity, The Progressive International Secretariat |
The European Commission is not yet very clear on how it wants to ensure the involvement of social partners.
Christophe Degryse explains how and what
An interesting ITUC report to learn about strategies for decent living wages
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