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International Workers’ Day

30/04/2020

Happy International Workers’ Day!

 

Today, May 1st, we celebrate the fruits of hard-working men and women across the globe and we commemorate the struggles the working class endured to achieve humane working rights and conditions, such as eight hour a day shift, reasonable wages and gender equality in the workplace.  

Albeit being a widespread national holiday, the International Workers’ Day has been historically linked to the communist ideology and the fight against capitalism. In the Soviet Union, this commemorative day was one of the most important public celebrations of the year, when communist governments organised spectacular military and civilian parades aiming to demonstrate the strength of the proletariat.

We have prepared a list of labour-related speeches in EN, FR, DE, ES, IT & PT for you to practise and get to know how International Workers’ Day is celebrated across the world!

 

EN

29260 The future of work and workers

29261 The future of work

29344 The Four Day Work Week

28863 Gender Equality in the Hi-Tech Industry

27031 Working abroad

27022 Women balancing work and family

26875 Work-life balance initiative (conference)

26504 Teleworking

25969 Gender Inequality in the Workplace

25292 EU migrants and jobs

24038 Recruitment of South African nurses to work in the British National Health Service

23418 Working mothers in Germany I

23419 Working mothers in Germany II

23125 Unemployment in the age of mobility

23127 Disenchantment at work

24580 Youth Unemployment in the EU

 

FR

28541 Le travail indépendant en France

28654 Droit du travail

24453 Le fléau du travail forcé

24382 Les inégalités homme-femme dans le monde du travail et dans l'enseignement

22543 Droits des travailleurs : le cas des chantiers navals de Saint-Nazaire (debate)

22000 Plus d'argent ou plus de temps libre : le choix pour les salariés

22001 Projet de loi sur le pouvoir d'achat des salariés (debate)

 

DE

28446 Vor- und Nachteile des Home-Office

24429 Arbeitswelt der Zukunft

22603 Arbeit, Ausbildung und Arbeitslosigkeit (debate)

 

ES

23562 Distracción en el trabajo

27727 El origen y futuro de la siesta en España

23700 Inmigración selectiva

 

IT

26504 Teleworking

26648 Il lavoro stagionale

24317 Povertà e lavoro

24237 Lavoratori del mondo: riposatevi!

26637 Imprenditorialità femminile

 

PT

24286 O desemprego dos jovens

24143 Destacamento de trabalhadores

26210 O trabalho infantil nas plantações de cacau

 

 

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