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Equal Times (2012-2025) was a news website (EN/FR/ES) focusing on labour, human rights, culture, development, the environment, politics and the economy from a social justice perspective.

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As Equal Times closes, the work continues

This is it. Our final article. Equal Times, the global labour news platform, will cease to publish as of December 2025. The website – which was, for more than a decade, an invaluable resource on the realities of work, society, fundamental rights, and more: the victories secured, the innovations introduced, but also the many indignities, injustices and stubborn anachronisms endured – will remain…

Awards and nominations: recognition of the work of Equal Times and its journalists

Year after year, Equal Times journalists have shared engaging, rigorous and deeply human journalism with our audience. Their reports, published from across the globe, have been recognised with numerous awards and distinctions. Here is a non-exhaustive list: 2024 SOPA – Society of Publishers in Asia Award, in the category of ‘Excellence in Reporting on Arts and Culture', winning article by Shirley…

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Journalism and trade unionism: two canaries in the same coal mine?

We are so accustomed to the presence of the media that we often take for granted the influence it has on our lives. One of our most powerful tools for shaping, transforming and safeguarding the way our world is structured, the media helps us decide, collectively, what tomorrow's society will look like and how it will function. The existence of an alternative media outlet like Equal Times, with its…

Jason Resnikoff, US labour historian: “If unions don't negotiate over the technological changes that are taking place, and if the state doesn't regulate them, who will?”

Jason Resnikoff, a US academic currently teaching contemporary history at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands, specialises in the intersections of labour history and technology. He is the author of Labor's End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work, in which he exposes how automation intensified human labour and eroded workers' power, recasting technological progress as both…