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Climate change is a workplace issue: bargaining for a just transition under the AfCFTA

A guide for worker representatives advocating for a just transition under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

Just transition and AfCFTA: some policy options for trade unions

by LRS AfCFTA Protocol on Investment / climate change / decent work / energy / green jobs / just transition / skills development / social dialogue

The AfCFTA Protocol on Investment gives trade unions a framework to advocate for a greener, inclusive and fairer economy.

2 months ago

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

by Nelly Nyagah care economy / decent work / gender equality / organisation and representation / Women’s Day

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

4 months ago

I danced when I got the job

by Nomasonto Ngwenya advocacy stories / care work / decent work / education sector / extended public works programme / food handlers / I Danced When I Got the Job / informalisation / NSNP

Nomasonto rejoiced the day she got her first job as a Food Handler. Behind the kitchen door, she found a harder fight: to be recognised as a worker deserving of dignity and rights.

4 months ago

The green light never stays green

by Yonela Mbubu advocacy stories / care work / decent work / early childhood development practitioners / education sector / expanded public works programme / gender equality

Yonela Mbubu sees a care worker’s life as a robot: red while you wait for work, green when a door opens, then the cracks. Still, she dreams and evolves.

4 months ago

How global supply chains keep workers poor

by The Conversation decent work / global value chains / living wage / multinational corporations / supply chains / wages

Three case studies show how the cycle can be broken.

4 months ago

How the State discards the women who built community health care

by Bulelwa Faltein advocacy stories / care work / community health workers / decent work / extended public works programme / health sector / public care work programmes

A Community Health Worker bears witness to the women who built care in their communities and now retire with no pension, no recognition, and nowhere to belong.

5 months ago