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Outsourcing security at Bangkok Airport was a disaster for workers like Chob Siriwat. New schedules allowed no time for toilet breaks or lunch, and security staff were faced with being fired if they left their posts, or becoming ill if they tried to last. This video tells the story of workers

“Why don’t you just leave him?” is a common response to women struggling with an abusive partner. But it’s not as easy as that. Cultural oppression and financial dependence can often stop Indian women from escaping their tormentors, as a number of brave survivors explain in this film. Often, the

“Dignity dies during a contract flip,” says Yavar Khan Qadri, a security contractor at Toronto Pearson Airport, “because it keeps workers on minimum wage.” That affects everyone’s safety at the airport. “We’ve had baggage carts crashing into each other. We’ve had people hitting planes with catering

Canada was built on the railways. But railway worker Jennifer Murray is worried sick that government plans to privatise profitable parts of the rail network will rob many remote areas of decent public transport. In British Columbia there’s a road called the ‘highway of tears’ because there’s no

Everyone loved working on the railway. Not anymore,” says UK rail worker Kathy Mazur. Privatisation and austerity have sparked an explosion in passenger violence, and workers feel unsupported by their managers. “It took 10 policemen to restrain him, to get him off the train,” she says of one

Victoria Nwakolo is a second-generation railway worker, passionate about Nigeria’s railways as the best way to transport the people and oil vital to the country’s economy. Trains have far lower carbon emissions than alternatives - but investment in sustainable transport should not be at cost of

Lília Cavalcanti, cabin crew with LATAM Airlines in Brazil, tells her personal story of passenger violence in the air. “There was turbulence and this passenger screams and jumps on top of me and I was frightened, scared, in shock. I was there caring for his safety and this passenger attacked me.”