Civil society and trade unions from the Global South are calling on rich countries’ leaders to stop blocking a proposal to waive vaccine patents.

Healthcare workers around the world are risking their lives to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. Stand with them to demand that governments do all they can to ensure hospitals are properly resourced.

The month of May celebrates nurses around the world. Here at home, the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa or Denosa used the commemoration to reflect on challenges faced by nurses. The union says the success of the delayed National Health Insurance relies on the nurses' involvement. SABC's Tumelo Machogo spent the day with nurses in Volksrust, Mpumalanga.. For more news, visit: sabcnews.com

This third session is part of a series of 2-hour virtual meetings "Pandemic and Beyond: Workers Organizing for a Public Future" held during July, August and September 2020.

Este vídeo, producido por la Internacional de Servicios Públicos (ISP) en asociación con Le Monde Diplomatique Brasil, y apoyado por la Fundación Friedrich Ebert (FES), presenta los discursos e intereses que han apoyado el agotamiento de la financiación de la salud en la América Latina durante las últimas décadas y cómo las políticas neoliberales, especialmente las medidas de austeridad fiscal, perjudican la lucha contra la pandemia.

Las oficinas regional interamericana y del Cono Sur de la Internacional de Servicios Públicos (ISP) realizaron el martes 23 de junio, en el marco del Día Mundial de los Servicios Públicos de Calidad, el webinar “30 años de privatizaciones en Chile: el laboratorio neoliberal de América Latina y su impacto sobre los servicios públicos en tiempos de COVID". En esta ocasión, se lanzó el estudio “30 años de neoliberalismo en Chile: la privatización de los servicios públicos”, realizado por la ISP en alianza con la Fundación NodoXXI. La publicación releva cómo la pandemia ha dejado al descubierto el error de años de privatizaciones, desmantelamiento y desfinanciación de los servicios públicos en uno de los países donde el neoliberalismo más ha avanzado en la región, y donde ha posibilitado la subordinación de la vida social a las exigencias del mercado.

Antonio Capodieci, an Italian emergency room nurse who works at the hospital Maggiore di Bologna, has just released a video in which he shows the raw reality of his nurse colleagues who have been fighting the coronavirus in the hospital aisles for the last few months

Global unions are join forces for a gender equal new normal in a series of webinars addressing women workers in the context of the COVID -19 pandemic and beyond: Together for a new normal.

PSI's women's committee in Chile produced this short video for 1st May giving women workers on the front line to talk about their experiences in person in responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

Shirly Dorismond, Vice-president for FIQ-Santé in Québec (Canada) and member of PSI's World Women's Committee talks about the difficulties of juggling family and work responsibilities and women workers in the current #COVID-19 crisis.