Trade Union Supports the Workers Dismissed from "Embawood"
The former workers of the furniture salon, Embawood spoke on the company’s illegal practices and protested release from their employment positions through blatant violations of contract conditions and simply firing them without any form of notification. According to Nona Saghareishvili, the lawyer defending the worker’s case, work conditions at Embawood are inhumane and in violation […]
Hard-hit vendors plead for help
Vendors affected by the political crisis want all sides to compromise and solve problems, which they say people like them did not start. The food hawkers and street vendors around the Energy Ministry have complained that their income has slowed to a trickle since the compound came under siege by anti-government protesters two weeks ago. […]
StreetNet International and its Mission with South Korean Affiliate – KOSC (Korean Street Vendors Confederation)
By Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Organiser for Europe & Asia On 12-17 January StreetNet delegates embarked on a trip to South Korea. Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Organiser for Europe and Asia and Sibailly Maximillien Douhoure, StreetNet Organiser for Africa/Educator had a successful visit to KOSC. They were sent to South Korea to improve communications between StreetNet and […]
Traders threaten chaos over vendor’s killing
By LALI VAN ZUYDAM South Africa (Pretoria)- Hawkers in the city centre have given the City of Tshwane until Friday to meet their demands or they will make the city “ungovernable”. This threat comes almost a week after one of their own, 20-year-old fruit vendor Foster Rivambo, from Saulsville, was shot on Bosman Street, allegedly […]
Police crack down on street vendors in DR Congo
Authorities in Kinshasa have launched a crackdown on street vendors who sell their wares along the capital’s avenues. Though this was presented as a "pedagogical" operation, police ended up destroying and burning stalls on Wednesday morning. One of our Observers filmed them in action. Launched on December 11, this operation is part of a citywide […]
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INDIA. "Biometric cards for hawkers soon." Times of India (20 December 2013) CONGO. "Police crack down on street vendors in DR Congo." France24 (20 December 2013). SOUTH AFRICA. "Hawkers, Joburg still at odds despite court ruling." Business Day Live (20 December 2013) by Khulenkani Magubane. INDIA. "Street vendors try to storm Assembly." E-Pao (18 December […]
StreetNet International delegation’s mission to Southeast Asia
By Oksana Abboud, StreetNet Organiser On December 1-8, 2013 StreetNet International sent a delegation of five people to South East Asia (Mekong region) – to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. With assistance of OXFAM Belgium in Laos and in Vietnam, the agenda for StreetNet delegation was successfully implemented. To expand StreetNet presence in the Mekong region, […]
The Social Security tool in Brazil (MEI) and its relation with street vendors
By Maira Vannuchi In Brazil we have a recently created social security policy towards the informal workers. The federal government implemented this formalising policy in 2008 during the second term government of PT (Workers` Party). The MEI, abbreviation of Individual Micro Entrepreneur, is a registration that offers many benefits to informal workers. Simple, inexpensive and […]
Traders Win!! – Evicted Johannesburg traders can return to inner city, court rules
By Franny Rabkin The Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that Johannesburg’s lawful informal traders can return to their stalls on the streets of the inner city and continue trading, after a morning of argument. Members of the South African Informal Traders Forum (SAITF) and the South African National Traders Retail Association, some of whom have […]
Johannesburg informal traders await Constitutional Court ruling
By Franny Rabkin, 05 December 2013 Johannesburg’s lawful informal traders will know by today afternoon whether they will be entitled to go back to their stalls on the streets of the inner city and continue trading, after a morning of argument in the Constitutional Court. Members of the South African Informal Traders Forum and South […]
