BUILDING WORKERS’ POWER – CHANGE THE RULES!
By Lorraine Sibanda, StreetNet International President The 4th ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) World Congress took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on 2-7 December 2018, the main theme of which sounded: BUILDING WORKES’ POWER –CHANGE THE RULES!! More than 1,200 participants took part in five days of debate to shape the policies and priorities for the […]
Social Protection for Informal Economy Workers in Zambia: Where We Are?
by Lameck Kashiwa, AZIEA General Secretary Zambia’s Social Protection like many countries has been biased towards formal workers while informal workers relied on their own indigenous informal schemes in the markets, Bus stations and neighborhood. The said informal schemes helped and continue to help the informal workers during funerals, bankruptcy, loss of job etc. Each […]
Field Trip to Central America to reaffirm solidarity
by Maira Vannuchi, StreetNet Organizer In the second half of September 2018, StreetNet Organizers Maira Vannuchi and Oksana Abboud went visiting three countries of Central America to meet StreetNet affiliates in Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Starting in Honduras, two organizers met the international coordinator Pat Horn in San Pedro Sula to carry out a […]
Negotiations Skills training follow up workshop for SLeTU from Sierra Leone
by Jane Masta, StreetNet Organizer The follow up workshop on Negotiations Skills Training was organized in collaboration with the Solidarity Centre AFL-CIO and StreetNet International. The training was held in Kenema City from 23rd to 24th October 2018. This was a follow up workshop from the initial training that was held in May 2018 where […]
Breaking New Ground in Liberia
by Pat Horn, StreetNet International Coordinator In May 2018 a Strategising Meeting was held with 30 leaders of StreetNet’s Affiliate FEPTIWUL (Federation of Petty Traders & Informal Workers’ Unions of Liberia) in Monrovia and Paynesville with the objective of analysing the effectiveness of a previous MoU signed between NAPETUL (as FEPTIWUL was known in 2014) […]
Presidential Jobs Summit – from the perspective of workers in the informal economy
By Pat Horn, StreetNet International Coordinator Lead-up to Jobs Summit In his State of the Nation address in February 2018, the new President of South Africa, Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, announced that a Jobs Summit would be convened as soon as possible to address the problems of joblessness and unemployment in South Africa. With regard to […]
Negotiations Skills Course for workers of informal economy in Honduras
By Maira Vannuchi and Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Organizers On 17- 21 September a five-day Negotiations skills training course took place in San Pedro Sula city (Honduras) for the StreetNet Affiliate FOTSSIEH (Federación de Organizacionesdel Sector Social y Informal de la Economia de Honduras). This slideshow requires JavaScript. The Training was organized in partnership with the […]
Bangladesh Affiliate from field visit lenses
By Amar Kharate, StreetNet Trainee Organizer Organisations that works for informal economy workers’ rights are very needed in today’s world. Labour at Informal Economy (LaIE) in Bangladesh, is a membership-based umbrella organisation, which includes four types of informal economy workers and street vendor is one of it. LaIE consists of 7 executive committee members 5 […]
The Federation of Petty Traders and Informal Workers Union of Liberia – FEPTIWUL celebrates its new achievement
By Sibailly Douhour, StreetNet Organizer On September 27th, 2018 FEPTIWUL, StreetNet’s affiliate in Liberia, represented by Comfort Dorion, Chairlady, signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Monrovia City Corporation, MCC. This agreement is the second after the first one which was signed in 2014. This time FEPTIWUL leaders and members were prepared as they […]
FAINATRASIT holds its Ordinary Congress
by Sibailly Douhouré, StreetNet Organizer The General Assembly of FAINATRASIT (StreetNet affiliate from Togo) took place on August 27th, 2018 in Lomé city under the following theme: The Informal Economy and the Transition towards the Formality: the Role of FAINATRASIT. 61 Delegates, 44 of whom – women from 19 Organisations affiliated to FAINATRASIT (out of […]
