Essential For Recovery

👩🏿‍⚕️🧑🏻‍Care workers around the world need urgent action from governments & employers to put life at the center of care. This means: ✅Safe Jobs ✅Family-Sustaining Wages ✅Quality Training 🚨Time to #InvestInCare #CAREday21

#Today is Global Day of Action for Care: #InvestInCare NOW! Women #InformalEconomy workers have borne an unequal responsibility for care work at home 🏡 due to restrictions, creche & school closures & rising infection rates brought on by the #pandemic 😷 👉bit.ly/3msiU4d

Maria do Carmo, a Brazilian street vendor, organized street vendors & thru this power, raised awareness of their issues with politicians. "Today we have respect from City Hall." @essential4rcvry @Streetnet1 @WIEGOGLOBAL @uniglobalunion @VendorPower

"Los venteros informales hemos sido perseguidos y estigmatizados por parte de las administraciones municipales. Trabajamos en el día para comer a la noche", dijo el Presidente de @UGTInformales🇨🇴@Streetnet1 🗣Las voces de trabajadorxs #Essential4Recovery: youtube.com/watch?v=SBUDq4…

Encouraging stories of essential workers during a Global 3-Days #Essential4Recovery Summit only amplified inspiration for Collective Voice towards policy change for All Workers! #EssentialWorkers #InformalEconomy @OpenSociety

“One thing is true across every sector: progress doesn’t happen without power, and power doesn’t happen without access. It’s time for essential workers to have access.” @tomperriello wraps us up at #Essential4Recovery with a powerful call to action!

Our final panel is a must-see: @RebeccaARainey moderates a conversation with @ituc’s @SharanBurrow and Lauren Compere of Boston Common Asset Management. Watch #Essential4Recovery here: youtu.be/SBUDq4F5SYs

We’re so grateful @sonamkalra was able to join #Essential4Recovery and share her inspiring solidarity with essential workers and her beautiful music.

“We know that businesses that put humanity at the heart of their operations fare better, yet we still suffer from a crisis of conformity in business leadership...We believe workers need a seat at the table.” @HallaThomas of @thebteamhq at #Essential4Recovery

We can't have decent work without workers having a seat at the table: @USTradeRep45 Katherine Tai @essential4rcvry Summit @aflcio @WIEGOGLOBAL @uniglobalunion

A strong message from ILO Director-General @GuyRyder that we must make sure #EssentialWorkers' conditions are commensurate with the immense value they create in society. That is #essential4recovery. 📺Watch live: essentialforrecovery.org

Top Manta, a collective of mostly-African migrant workers in Barcelona, launched their own line of sustainably sourced sneakers, providing quality products and opportunity for workers #Essential4Recovery youtu.be/SBUDq4F5SYs

Thank you @EmmanuelFaber for joining us to share your work at @B4IG_Coalition and your efforts to create a standard living wage through partnerships with corporations and workers! #Essential4Recovery

“Did you know that street vendors, waste pickers and home healthcare workers account for about 62% of the informal economy?” @DrMusaMthombeni shares his solidarity with informal economy workers at #Essential4Recovery

“We can't have a worker-centered trade policy without having a seat at the table for all of our workers.” @AmbassadorTai on the new U.S. administration's fight to include workers in the recovery. #Essential4Recovery

Guillermo Giraldo explains how informal worker organizations are coming together through Colombia’s General Union of Workers to build power together for informal economy workers #Essential4Recovery

Joanna's coworkers organized during COVID and know it's essential for other workers. "My message to care workers in the same situation is: don´t be afraid fight for yourself, take care of yourself and you will be able to give better care to your patients.” #Essential4Recovery

@domesticworkers Y @SINACTRAHO – Fantástica conversación entre @aijenpoo y Norma Palacios que nos explica la historia y la importancia del movimiento y la organización de #TrabajadorasdelHogar en #México y en todo lugar. #Essential4Recovery youtube.com/watch?v=SBUDq4…

This is why #StreetVendors are #Essential4Recovery! This is happening now: youtube.com/watch?v=SBUDq4…

“It’s about building back broader, and that’s going to take a lot of effort on the part of governments.” @zahidi makes the case that recovery must be broad-based for all workers at #Essential4Recovery