Customers entering a bank have their temperature checked and their hands sanitized as a precaution against the COVID-19 virus, in Baghdad, Iraq
TRADE unions across the world are leading the battle to protect workers and their families from economic dislocation caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
Unions are fighting to ensure workers receive sick pay, avoid catastrophic loss of income if employers are closing businesses and that governments put measures in place to protect their homes.
Australia’s Community & Public Sector Union reported today that it had convinced the Australian Public Service Commission to extend paid leave to casual staff who contract Covid-19 or have to self-isolate due to exposure to infected persons.
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers
