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6 months ago
A lifetime of care work repaid with erasure
A son reflects on his mother’s 20-year career as a Community Health Worker and the implications of her retiring without a pension or recognition.
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6 months ago
A Day in the life of an ECD Practitioner
In rural Ga-Mailula, ECD practitioner Francina Kubjane turns a humble day care centre into a place of belonging and excellence.
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6 months ago
Union or forum? The pros and cons of alternative forms of organised labour
The South African Care Workers Forum shows that workers are reimagining models of organised labour and redefining how voice and power are built.
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6 months ago
The dignity crisis facing Community Health Workers
A nation that claims dignity as a founding value cannot continue denying it to the care workers who sustain its capacity to care.
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6 months ago
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?
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6 months ago
How the state undermined the rights of Community Health Workers
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.
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7 months ago
Decent work goals for care workers
Care workers’ five demands for decent work.
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7 months ago
Recognition of Prior Learning as a collective journey
10 questions and answers for Community Health Workers advocating for absorption into permanent posts.
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7 months ago
How workers build power
LRS contribution to the trade union movement through the lenses of identity, voice, capacity for representation, belonging and sustainability.
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7 months ago
A feminist approach to organising women workers
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.