Building Collective Power

Executive Summary: Selective Waste Management and Waste Pickers’ Organizations: Indicators and Sustainability Indices

This is a 5-page executive summary of a 59-page research guide (in Portuguese), Gestão da coleta seletiva e de organizações de catadores:...

VIDEO: Kayayei March – Accra, December 2016

This is a video of an appreciation march by Kayayei’s on the promise that was made to them by the NPP (New Patriotic Party) to abolish...

Recruiting Informal Workers Into Democratic Workers’ Organisations (ICC1)

Organising In The Informal Economy: Resource Books For Organisers, Number 1 This series of resource books on Organising in the Informal Economy...

Handling Disputes between Informal Workers and those in Power (ICC5)

This series of resource books on Organising in the Informal Economy was written in response to requests from unions and associations for...

International Domestic Workers Network (IDWN) website

The International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) is an initiative of domestic workers’ unions  together with support organizations. ...

Workers in the Informal Economy: Platform of Issues

International Labour Conference, June 2002

Our Story Our Struggle: Lagos Tailors

This booklet emerged out of discussions in a workshop with representatives of the National Union of Tailors, Lagos. The workshop was facilitated...

Spotlight Interview with Mamadou Nama (Burkina Faso – USTB)

Waste pickers in Colombia

In “Order 275, dating from 2011,” a lead waste picker interviews two high-level officials, who explain the content of the constitutional...

Collective Bargaining by Workers of the Indian Unorganized Sector: Struggle, Process, Achievements, and Learning

The main focus of the paper is on highlighting the Self Employed Womens Association (SEWA) strategy for using collective bargaining for decent...