How does one address the perennial pecuniary insecurity of workers, which often places them at the mercy (and greed) of loan sharks? What options do workers have other than pleading for loans and advances from their employers whenever they are faced with financial problems? What can be done to provide some kind of social protection […]

The confederation of Ethiopia trade union (CETU), with a total member ship of 320,000 (134,251 female and 185,749 male), is an umbrella organization of about 520 grassroots trade unions affiliated to nine national industrial federations. Almost all member unions have saving and credit cooperatives and some have more advanced workers cooperatives engaged in different investment […]