Workers of Chiatura manganese mines, archive (Mari Nikuradze /OC Media)
New polling by CRRC and NDI showed that unemployed women demand significantly lower salaries to start working than men. However, deeper analysis by CRRC suggests that this difference exists only among the better off. [Read more…]
A tunnel where miners work in Chiatura. (Mari Nikuradze / OC Media)
International rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Georgian Government to improve safety conditions for miners, slamming the country’s deregulation of labour safety. [Read more…]
Protest in front of Evolution Gaming office, Tbilisi. (GTUC)
Employees of online gambling provider Evolution Gaming in Georgia have created a union after several employees claimed to have been fired for demanding better wages and working conditions. [Read more…]
The Kvishkheti tunnel construction site. (Photo: Kartli.ge)
Sixty railway construction workers at an international company in Georgia’s central Shida Kartli region have left their job after unsuccessfully demanding a raise. [Read more…]
Keti Tomeishvili (Nina Baidauri / Women of Georgia)
‘I was 29 when I had to emigrate and returned 14 years later. My sister was very young when she was diagnosed with an aneurysm. The doctors told her her chances of survival were only 2%, but I really wanted even this tiny chance.’ [Read more…]
Georgian Manganese’s enrichment plant in Chiatura. (Mari Nikuradze / OC Media)
After starting a sudden and unsanctioned strike earlier this month, miners in Chiatura stitched their lips together to demonstrate how much their hazardous occupations cost. [Read more…]
Panorama Tbilisi. (Natia Amiranashvili/Liberali)
Three people have been injured working on the construction of Georgia’s controversial Panorama Tbilisi project. Video footage from immediately after the accident showed that safety rules were not being followed on the site. [Read more…]
Andranik Kocharyan with his family (Mania Israyelyan/OC Media)
Faced with ignorance and discrimination, finding work as a blind person in Armenia can be a difficult task. [Read more…]
‘Social workers are not superman!’ (Shota Kincha / OC Media)
Georgia’s social workers have returned to work after a week-long strike, announcing that the government had ‘partially’ met their demands. [Read more…]
(Dato Parulava / OC Media)
Several hundred people took to the streets of Tbilisi on Monday to protest poor labour safety measures after two construction workers were found dead at a construction site. [Read more…]
