The GLWC is proud to announce a new series about the actions our member organisations have taken regarding living wages. As a Coalition, we work to enable collaborative action to achieve a decent standard of living for working people and their families worldwide and each of our member organisations work towards this individually and collectively […]
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The latest news and announcements from the Global Living Wage Coalition.
Looking Back: The Year in Research & Action
This year marked another opportunity to advance living wage research from the Anker Research Institute and promote living wage action from the GLWC and our member organizations. Here we present a collection of some of our favorite moments of 2022. Stakeholder meetings convened diverse organizations around Anker Living Wage and Income-related research and activities. The […]
Living Wage as a Right: Salient Concerns in its Implementation
The Anker Research Institute is pleased to announce their participation at the IDH Living Wage Summit in Brussels on the 7th of December and is eager to invite everyone to join their session ‘Living Wage as a Right’. Representatives of firms and workers, together with officials from the standard-setting organization Fair Labor Association, and a […]
New Reference Value for Urban El Salvador
The GLWC and The Anker Research Institute are proud to share the new 2022 Living Wage Reference Value for typical urban areas of El Salvador, This Reference Value estimates the wage a worker in a typical urban area of El Salvador would need to receive each month to afford a basic but decent living. Anker […]
Stakeholder Meeting Brings Together Public & Civil Sectors in India
As sponsor of a new Living Wage and Income Benchmark study for India, the Laudes Foundation organized a stakeholder feedback consultation meeting on Monday, October 10, 2022. Participants included stakeholders from the Government of Madhya Pradesh, several civil society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and members of academia. The meeting began with a welcome address by […]
Gender Pay Gap Stakeholder Meeting Highlights Preliminary Study Results
A stakeholder workshop was held in Colombia on July 8 to discuss the results of a study on gender pay gaps in the banana sector, funded by FAO, Fairtrade International and Fairtrade Germany. The event was well-attended by banana producers and exporters, industry bodies and trade unions, with around 90 participants in the room and […]
New Reference Value for Urban Honduras
The GLWC and The Anker Research Institute are excited to share the new 2022 Living Wage Reference Value for typical urban areas of Honduras, This Reference Value estimates the wage a worker in a typical urban area of Honduras would need to receive each month to afford a basic but decent living. Anker Reference Values […]
New Working Paper: Living Income for Guji Zone, Ethiopia
The GLWC and Anker Research Institute are content to announce a new working paper, Living Income for Guji Zone (Oromia Region), Ethiopia, which provides updated estimates of family living expenses for the coffee-producing rural Guji zone, a small administrative division in the south of Ethiopia in the Oromia Region. This report uses available Anker Living […]
New: 2022 Reference Value and Benchmark Updates
All new 2022 Reference Value and Benchmark updates are now available from the GLWC and Anker Research Institute. New Reference Value updates are available for Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Tanzania and new Benchmark updates are available for South Africa and Pakistan. The reports estimate the wages or incomes a worker in these regions […]
The GLWC Action Network welcomes Fair Labor Association
Since 2013, the Global Living Wage Coalition has been at the forefront of driving knowledge-based living wage action in supply chains. Following the GLWC’s restructure into two independent but complementary entities (the Anker Research Institute and GLWC Action Network), the coalition is expanding! New members bring significant opportunities to extend the Coalition’s thinking and action […]
