On September 5, 2022, Voices for Labour, Platform for Vendors in Uganda (PLAVU), Uganda Market and Allied Employees Union and Uganda Artisans and General Workers Union filed two cases with …
Pleading in Uganda Constitutional Petition No 25 of 2022
2nd Petition PLATFORM FOR VENDORS V KCCA & AG PETITION NO. 25 0F 2022
Pleading in Uganda Constitutional Petition No 24 of 2022
1st Petition VOICES FOR LABOUR – V- A.G PETITION NO.24 OF 2022
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination – Concluding Observations on Zimbabwe
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) evaluated Zimbabwe in its recent review found: “The Committee is concerned that legislation to protect labor rights and prevent discrimination …
Voices For Labour Goes To Court Over Vendor Evictions
There is light at the end of the tunnel for thousands of languishing street vendors who were shown exit out of business in Kampala by Government in early 2022. The …
Scottish court orders James Finlay tea firm not to block class suits
After almost 100 years of free running in Kenya, a Scottish court has ordered multinational tea firm James Finlay to drop its bid to block some Kenyan tea pickers from …
Kenyan tea pickers on Scottish-run farm to pursue health issues in UK court
More than a 1,000 Kenyan tea pickers who say that harsh and exploitative working conditions on a Scottish-run tea farm have caused them crippling health complaints can now pursue their …
Uganda’s street traders treated ‘like animals’ in major crackdown
Kampala authorities have arrested thousands of vendors this year and there is criticism over poor treatment and lack of regulation For 13 years, ever since she lost her job in …
Content moderator in Kenya sues Meta over working conditions
A former moderator working for Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc (FB.O) on Tuesday filed a lawsuit alleging that poor working conditions for contracted content moderators violate the Kenyan constitution. The petition, also …
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Tara Peel and John Mark Mwanika on the effects of climate change on workers in Canada and Uganda
“For Tara Peel, a political advisor at the Canadian Labour Congress, just transition is the solution to ensuring that emissions are reduced dramatically in the fight to curb global warming …