Theme: Building Collective Power

Towards a model framework for a local level collective bargaining system for street traders

“This document sets out ideas on the type of collective bargaining system that street traders and their organisations should fight...

VIDEO: Silvio Ruiz from Colombia

In Spanish with English subtitles

Seu kit de ferramentas para a C189 da OIT a Convenção das trabalhadoras e dos trabalhadores domésticos.

A WIEGO e a IDWF entraram em uma parceria para escrever este kit de ferramentas para apoiar as afiliadas da IDWF em seus esforços para tornar...

Recrutando Trabalhadores Informais para Organizacoes Democraticas de Trabalhadores (ICC1)

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Gestion des conflits entre les travailleurs de l economie informelle et les autorites (ICC5)

Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) website

SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers in India. These are women who earn a...

Nohra Padilla, Third Generation Recycler and Advocate for Organizing the Working Poor

Street Trading in South Africa – Organizing Workers

Through their experiences of organizing in the markets of Durban, leaders of the growing movement of street vendors have gained greater confidence...

SEWA Newsletter No. 45

Contents:           SEWA’s Unique Co-operatives: Gujarat Women’s SEWA Cooperative Federation     SEWA’s Co-operatives Sweep...

Nohra Padilla: 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner, Colombia

Unfazed by powerful political opponents and a pervasive culture of violence, Nohra Padilla organized Colombia’s marginalized waste...