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Inside Amazon India’s pressure cooker warehouses: Workers ‘forced to meet unrealistic targets in 55C heat’

Amazon warehouse staff in India are still being forced to work in temperatures as high as 55C and the majority feel conditions are too hot to be safe, according to …

Not so clean: Why workers are leaving India’s green energy projects

A month into his new job at the world’s largest renewable energy park in Khavada in Gujarat’s Rann of Kutch, Anawar Alam was planning his escape. Hired along with 17 …

As the world heats up, fashion’s climate transition must start with workers

As the planet heats up, the world’s most vulnerable workers are being pushed to the brink. In 2024, India recorded its hottest year on record, with temperatures hitting 50 degrees …

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Climate change and workplace heat stress: technical report and guidance

This publication provides an overview of evidence and guidance on the growing challenge of workplace heat stress in the context of climate change. It highlights the health and productivity risks …

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The “underdiagnosis” of heat-related worker deaths: “The data doesn’t reflect what’s happening.

(article originally in Spanish) Unions say official statistics, which do not report a single death in 2024, do not capture the scale of the phenomenon. Other European countries suffer from …

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ILO Working Paper: The role of collective bargaining in promoting just transitions

This working paper explores the role of collective bargaining in achieving a just transition, drawing on recent literature and a sample of 512 collective agreements. An in-depth study of six …

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Workers Roast as Federal Heat Standard Languishes

It was 100 degrees in Baltimore the day Ronald Silver II died on the job last summer. He had already taken time off from his sanitation job that week to …

‘My Body is Burning’: How Climate Change is Worsening Bangladesh’s Labor Exploitation

“My body is burning. But still there is no break at all. I have to complete [my] work… I am suffering [in the heat], but I have to do my …

Dangerous Heat Waves Are a Workers’ Rights Issue

he Labour Party’s flagship Employment Rights Bill is currently in the final stage of its legislative journey in the House of Lords. Peers are making a final round of amendments …

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Just transitions in national climate frameworks and climate policies: Experiences in alignment, planning and progress tracking

This report by the KCI reviews the coverage of just transition in nationally determined contributions and long-term low-emission development strategies, implementation within key sectors, and tracking its progress. From the …