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A woman’s work should not be something she has to prove

Whose work is recognised, recorded, and rewarded? Seventy years after the 1956 march, the answer depends on where a woman works.

2 months ago

10 organising lessons from building a care workers’ movement

by Nelly Nyagah care economy / community health workers / creating safe spaces for democratic change / ECD practitioners / epwp / food handlers / organisation and representation

Care workers built a shared organising and advocacy platform across three sectors. Here are lessons for trade unions organising precarious workers.

2 months ago

Why care workers refuse to be called volunteers

by Nelly Nyagah care economy / community health workers / creating safe spaces for democratic change / ECD practitioners / epwp / food handlers

EPWP care workers now share one platform, one story about the value of care, and collective demands for decent work in public care programmes.

2 months ago

The people’s inquiry into care work in public programmes

by Zanele Chakela care economy / care work / community health workers / creating safe spaces for democratic change / ECD practitioners / epwp / food handlers

A statement of findings by Care Workers in the Extended Public Works Programme.

5 months ago

A lifetime of care work repaid with erasure

by Unity Moganedi care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / Labour Relations Act / workers’ rights

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.

5 months ago

Union or forum? The pros and cons of alternative forms of organised labour

by Kukhanya Mthimkulu care economy / community healthcare workers / organisation and representation / precarious work

The South African Care Workers Forum shows that workers are reimagining models of organised labour and redefining how voice and power are built.

5 months ago

The dignity crisis facing Community Health Workers

by Kukhanya Mthimkulu care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / gender equality / health sector / Labour Relations Act / workers’ rights

A nation that claims dignity as a founding value cannot continue denying it to the care workers who sustain its capacity to care.

5 months ago

Care Workers Day is a feminist labour movement

by Kukhanya Mthimkulu care economy / Care Workers' Day / community health workers / decent work / ECD practitioners / extended public works programme / food handlers / gender equality

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.

Tag: care economy

A woman’s work should not be something she has to prove

10 organising lessons from building a care workers’ movement

Why care workers refuse to be called volunteers

The people’s inquiry into care work in public programmes

A lifetime of care work repaid with erasure

Union or forum? The pros and cons of alternative forms of organised labour

The dignity crisis facing Community Health Workers

Care Workers Day is a feminist labour movement

How the state undermined the rights of Community Health Workers

Decent work goals for care workers

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