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Care Workers Day is a feminist labour movement

What would it mean to build a system in which the ethics of care shape the conditions of work itself?

5 months ago

How the state undermined the rights of Community Health Workers

by Nina Benjamin care economy / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / Labour Relations Act / recognition of prior learning / workers’ rights

Community Health Workers won permanent employment in court – then the state rewrote the rules. Our analysis tracks how a landmark victory became a new form of exclusion.

5 months ago

Decent work goals for care workers

by LRS care economy / community health workers / decent work / ECD practitioners / extended public works programme / food handlers / gender equality / workers’ rights

Care workers’ five demands for decent work.

5 months ago

Recognition of Prior Learning as a collective journey

by Nina Benjamin care economy / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / recognition of prior learning / workers’ rights

10 questions and answers for Community Health Workers advocating for absorption into permanent posts.

5 months ago

How workers build power

by Nelly Nyagah care economy / international trade / just transition / organisation and representation / safe spaces / sustainability / technology

LRS contribution to the trade union movement through the lenses of identity, voice, capacity for representation, belonging and sustainability.

6 months ago

A feminist approach to organising women workers

by Michal Friedman care economy / care work / decent work / feminist popular education / gender equality / National School Nutrition Programme / volunteer food handlers

Our story of walking alongside Food Handlers in the National School Nutrition Programme on a movement-building journey to advocate for decent work and fair pay.

6 months ago