The Anti-Strike Law is a Historic Attack on Workers’ Rights

The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is extraordinary for the power it gives to the government to deny to workers what is universally regarded as a fundamental human right. A …

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How Rising Temperatures Are Becoming a Labor Story

“When an extraordinary heat wave hit the Pacific Northwest in June 2021, with temperatures soaring to a record 116 degrees in Portland, it sent a hard-to-ignore message that extreme heat has become …

The Strikes (Minimum Service) Bill: A Blatant Violation of International Labour Standards

The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill (“MSB”)is another legislative episode in the never-ending ‘death by a thousand cuts’ of trade unions’ ability to mount an effective lawful industrial action. As it is …

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Making labour law fit for all those who labour

In December 2017, ‘JK’ and his partner published on their YouTube channel a Christmas music video aimed at promoting tolerance towards same-sex couples. Two days later, JK received an email from his …

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ECtHR Factsheet: Trade Union Rights

Here is an updated factsheet from the European Court of Human Rights of cases related to trade union rights. https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/FS_Trade_union_ENG.pdf

CHINA’S REGULATIONS ON ALGORITHMS: Context, impact, and comparisons with the EU

“On 1 March 2022, China’s Regulations on the Administration of Internet Information Service Recommendation Algorithms (hereafter, ‘Regulations’) entered into effect (Creemers et al., 2022). The new Chinese provisions, consisting of …

Chrisden Cabrera Ditiangkin, Hendrix Masamayor Molines, Harvey Mosquito Juanio, Joselito Castro Verde, and Brian Anthony Cubacub Nabong Vs. Lazada E-Services Philippines, Inc., Allan Ancheto, Richard Delantar and Jade Andrade

Here is the full decision of the Philippines Supreme Court finding that digital platfrom drivers are employees: https://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/246892.pdf

UK: Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill

Here is the full text of the proposed UK Strikes Minimum Services Levels Bill  

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Negotiations by workers in the informal economy

Negotiations are a valuable and important tool for increasing the voice of workers in the informal economy. This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations …

By workers, for workers: in India, cooperatives are addressing care workers’ own caregiving needs

In attending to the needs of children, the old, sick, invalid or differently abled, almost every woman is an unpaid care worker, with caregiving largely considered a women’s responsibility the world …