Essential For Recovery

#Essential4Recovery, the first summit to lay out a global vision for a just economic recovery that recognizes the value of essential workers

[UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion]

👩🏿‍⚕️🧑🏻‍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

[HomeNet International @HomeNetInt]

#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 😷
👉https://t.co/6H64EZtn8s

[Solidarity Center @SolidarityCntr]

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

[WIEGO @WIEGOGLOBAL]

"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: https://t.co/gK0nSsPejS

[Oksana Abboud @AbboudOksana]

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

[Essential For Recovery @essential4rcvry]

“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!

[Essential For Recovery @essential4rcvry]

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: https://t.co/f4BlvpSd79

[Essential For Recovery @essential4rcvry]

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

[Essential For Recovery @essential4rcvry]

“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

[Solidarity Center @SolidarityCntr]

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

[UNI Global Union @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: https://t.co/mpvDgQMMmw

[Essential For Recovery @essential4rcvry]

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 https://t.co/f4BlvpSd79

[Essential For Recovery @essential4rcvry]

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

[Essential For Recovery @essential4rcvry]

“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

[Essential For Recovery @essential4rcvry]

“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

[Essential For Recovery @essential4rcvry]

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

[UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion]

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

[IDWF - International Domestic Workers Federation @IDWFED]

@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 https://t.co/KzgpIiF7Kc

[Sofia Trevino @Trevino_Sofia]

This is why #StreetVendors are #Essential4Recovery! This is happening now: https://t.co/eys8isLeu4

[Essential For Recovery @essential4rcvry]

“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