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Latest Episodes

Driving Toward a Fair Future @ Work
November 07, 2023

Delivery drivers and other app-based workers often struggle to improve their difficult, and even dangerous, working conditions. In the final episode of My Boss Is a Robot, two veteran union organizers

Tips to Help Delivery Drivers Form Unions
October 24, 2023

When a worker dies on the job, shouldn’t their families receive some compensation from the company? App-based delivery drivers and other gig workers don’t. Despite unfair working conditions, many gig

Tech Discrimination: The New Way We Work?
October 10, 2023

Drivers delivering your pizza are being paid by an algorithm–and the longer they work, the less they are paid. On this episode of My Boss Is a Robot, experts discuss whether we are heading toward a po

Gaming the System: App Workers Rarely Win
September 26, 2023

Way back when factories were the new thing, there were no rules to stop the big industrialists from paying starvation wages and putting workers’ lives in danger in fire-prone buildings. Today, those o

App Workers Seek Level Playing Field
September 12, 2023

. For app-based workers like delivery drivers, the “free” in freelancer comes at a high cost. The second episode of the Solidarity Center Podcast series, My Boss Is a Robot, explores their battle for

21st Century Workplace: Exploitation by App
August 29, 2023

. If you work seven days a week, 12 hours a day and don’t make enough money to pay the bills, you can talk to your boss, right? Not if your boss is an app. Find out the global impact of app-controlled

M-POWER SUMMIT: Program to End Violence, Harassment Changing the Dynamic in Lesotho
August 03, 2023

An unprecedented, binding, worker-centered program designed to comprehensively address rampant gender-based violence and harassment in several garment factories in Lesotho is succeeding in creating

Solidarity Center Condemns Murders of Union Leaders in Bangladesh, Honduras
June 28, 2023

A garment union leader in Bangladesh and four garment union leaders in Honduras were killed over the weekend, murders the Solidarity Center and global union and human rights organizations are strong

Nigerian Activists Mobilize to End Gender-Based Violence at Work
June 26, 2023

After a coalition of unions and human rights organizations successfully campaigned for Nigerias government to ratify a global treaty on violence and harassment in the world of work, including gende

ORGANIZING SCHOOL BUILDS COLLECTIVE POWER IN KYRGYZSTAN
June 20, 2023

Recognizing that increased numbers help unions better advocate for worker rights and negotiate wages and working conditions with Kyrgyzstans employers and government, 28 union activists joined the