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Collective bargaining is usually understood as taking place between an employer(s) and employees. However, workers in the informal economy, including own account workers, are engaged in many different forms of collective negotiation with counterparts that are not employers. This paper builds on...
This manual was developed to help domestic workers to understand their rights and to develop strategies for protecting and advancing those rights. The manual can be used by educators to run workshops or education sessions.
This manual was developed to help street vendors (informal traders) to understand their rights and to develop strategies for protecting and advancing those rights. The manual can be used by educators to run workshops or education sessions.
Description from this International Transport Workers' Federation resource: "Growing numbers of informal and precarious workers are in the world’s transport industry. Many unions organise these workers, and adapt their organising strategies accordingly. Informal and precarious workers can organise...
StreetNet's New Manifesto Campaign is designed to unite the strengths of informal street/market vendors to let them express their needs andconcerns while developing an international street vendors' manifesto with the full participation of a wide range of street vendor organizations in different...
en Español ¿Qué significa la Campaña del Nuevo Manifiesto (CNM)? CNM es una campaña diseñada para unir las fortalezas de los vendedores ambulantes informales y de mercado y dejarles expresar sus necesidades y preocupaciones, mientras que se elabora un manifiesto internacional de los vendedores...
Videos / Slideshows / Audio
Millions of women work long hours, in dangerous conditions, for little pay. They are fighting for change, with the help of ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers. Watch this video to learn how.
Workers Education/Organizing Materials
This manual helps street vendors learn more about the regulations that govern public space and how to defend the right to work in public space. It describes successful actions taken by street vendor organizations. And it offers information to help you organize and negotiate with local government.
WIEGO Working Papers
Mike Rogan reviews how informal workers are taxed, why there is growing interest in taxing them, and whether they should be included in the tax net.