Community benefit agreements can secure strong labor protections, environmental standards, and local investments.
The Garland Fund was not a typical foundation, but its history shows the potential role philanthropy can play in moments of rising authoritarianism—and the tensions inherent in that role.
The Chamber of Deputies is weighing a labour bill that would increase work hours, cut severance pay and ease firings.
Livelihood conditions are worsening, with trade unionists arrested, internal displacement increasing and youth fleeing the country to escape conscription. An end to military rule is vital if the cycles of human rights repression is to be addressed.
The continuing expansion of Amazon’s business model could signal the unraveling of wages, benefits and protections for working people more generally.
The whole world on alert
The International Trade Union Confederation issued a 2025 report showing conditions for workers’ rights across the globe have worsened.
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.
Workers deserve the right to collectively bargain, full stop.
Influencers like Jake Paul have risen to prominence by fighting athletes who want an alternative to exploitative bodies like the UFC. His pro-Trumpism and call for a union to protect the rights of fighters represent the contradictions within combat
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