Recruitment of foreign healthcare workers by employers in rich nations is undermining efforts to fight disease in the developing world, a World Health Organisation official warns

Now is the time to stand up for workers (03/12/08) The financial and economic crisis hitting the world means that, now more than ever, "the time is right to stand up for workers," general secretary Dave Prentis told UNISON's national executive council in London today."It's the workers, vulnerable...

2008 was the deadliest year on record for violence against aid workers around the world with 122 deaths: Most of the violence occurred in three countries — Somalia, where 45 aid workers were killed, up from 7 in 2007; Afghanistan, with 33 deaths; and Sudan, with 19. Local humanitarian workers were most often the victims, accounting for 104 of the deaths. The study also found a significant in...

Tar Heel, N.C. – This week workers at Smithfield Packing in Tar Heel, North Carolina, chose union representation with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). Workers voted...

The Guardian has an excellent, and harrowing, article on the abuses which many female immigrant workers from the developing world suffer, with the focus on the huge numbers of migrant workers in the Middle East: "Her testimony, along with thousands of others', has been gathered by Human Rights Watch (HRW). The group claims that, every week, one of an estimated 200,000 migrant domestic workers...

Tomorrow, 1 May, is May Day, the international day for workers, celebrated since 1886 around the world. It is the day when workers in countries all over the planet protest about their concerns, and give voice to their human right to organise and speak out. In two countries in particular, this is a critical issue this year. In Turkey, the Government has at last responded to trade unio

MEPs are voting later today on whether to abolish the UK's derogation on the Working Time Directive that allows workers to choose whether or not they want to work more than 40 hours per week. The EU is a socialist behemoth and naturally supports abolishing the rights of workers to decide how many hours they work but in the real world businesses and workers are worried. For some people, workin...

I resent the way in which the media, and government, chooses to label some within the workforce as "key workers" - meaning public sector workers. (aka "Parasite workers") but leave that prejudice aside for a moment and concentrate on the news that .. "House prices in Northern Ireland need to fall even further before property in the Province is affordable for key workers such as nurses and firefigh...

Here are two highlights from new research carried out by the No Shit Sherlock! Department: 1. Migrant workers are more likely to be working as temps or in insecure work (for example not having a written contract) than any other workers. 2. Recent migrant workers are more than twice as likely as other workers to be earning less than the appropriate NMW for their age. We could have guessed the first...

You can see a TV report here. A number of SSP members including Colin Fox, former MSP and Angela Gorrie, Maryfield by election candidate visited the workers today to show their support. Solidarity has the following report from the Dundee factory, Prisme, where twelve workers have occupied, in protest at being made redundant in a scandalous