New York mayor sues to block $10,000 teaching aide bonuses
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is challenging the Respect Check Act, which would provide New York City's teaching aides with a one-time ...
Tag: Workers' Rights
DR Congo Ebola Outbreak Results in Over 1,700 Deaths as WHO Advances Trials
What You Need to Know • The death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
DRC Health Workers Report Hardship Amid Ebola Outbreak
What You Need to Know • The World Health Organization warns that the Ebola virus outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic ...
India’s salt workers and the human cost of salt production
101 East examines the supply chain of India's salt industry, one of the largest in the world. The industry relies ...
DR Congo Ebola center staff strike amid virus outbreak
Staff at Rwampara General Hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have gone on strike over unpaid wages, ...
Palestinian Authority offers workers 50% wages amid ongoing mass strike
Palestinian Authority (PA) finance officials announced that public sector workers will receive 50% of their salaries on Thursday, following a ...
India’s e-waste workers at risk of toxic health issues
Mateen Malik, an informal e-waste segregator in New Delhi's Mustafabad area, works in a cramped workshop where he dismantles electronics ...
India’s Home-Based Workers Demand Equal Rights on 30th Anniversary of ILO Convention
On a scorching afternoon in New Delhi, Shehnaz Bano, a home-based worker, stitches leather jacket pieces in her one-room home ...
UN adopts treaty establishing standards for gig economy workers
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has adopted the Decent Work in the Platform Economy Convention, the first binding agreement to ...
Gas explosion in Chinese coal mine results in at least 90 deaths
A gas explosion at the Liushenyu coal mine in Qinyuan county, Shanxi province, has resulted in at least 90 fatalities, ...
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