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Protecting workers from heat
News, Laura Alfers & Christy Braham, Published on 02/09/2024
» Today's escalating climate crisis disproportionately affects the world's two billion informal workers. As heat waves become increasingly frequent and intense, the absence of global occupational safety and health (OSH) protections against climate-related risks leaves these workers dangerously exposed. Forced to labour in record-breaking temperatures, their health and even lives are in jeopardy.
Labour scams carry cost
News, Editorial, Published on 18/03/2024
» For far too long, Thailand has grappled with the insidious issue of human trafficking. This heinous crime has tarnished the country's reputation -- not to mention diminishing the country's competitiveness on the global stage.
Target for cuts
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/03/2024
» Re: "Agencies ordered to cut waste", (BP, March 8).
The 'satanic mills' of Bezos and Amazon
Oped, Antara Haldar, Published on 11/10/2022
» With Britain suffering through its worst cost-of-living crisis in decades -- owing to high inflation and soaring energy prices -- hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Coventry since last month demanded a wage hike. If the demand is not met, they say they will go on strike in November, just ahead of Black Friday and the holiday shopping season. As with other recent labour actions by US rail workers and British Royal Mail employees, the Amazon workers' move has kicked off a debate about who is to blame for the threatened disruption: the elves in the workshop or Father Christmas?
Take on the junta
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/12/2021
» Re: "Junta court hands Suu Kyi 4 years for incitement," (BP, Dec 7).
Renewables are the future
Oped, Editorial, Published on 28/05/2021
» A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered oil giant Royal Dutch Shell (Shell) to slash its greenhouse gas emissions in a landmark victory with good implications for energy production and consumption worldwide.
A letter from India, amid virus disaster
Oped, Amandeep Sandhu, Published on 19/05/2021
» Every morning, I wake up in my home in a middle-class locality in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, and heave a sigh of relief. I do not have temperature; my oximeter readings are normal.
Dark Myanmar forces
Oped, Postbag, Published on 15/05/2021
» Re: "Backsliding by Myanmar," (Editorial, May 14).
Immigration games
Oped, Postbag, Published on 19/12/2020
» I, like nearly 90% of all foreigners living here in Thailand, am getting tired of going to immigration for our yearly visa renewal, only to find out that we did not follow the "rules of the day". We want immigration to state a clear policy of what is, or is not, required to renew our visas. To that end, we ask: