{"id":10990,"date":"2023-10-17T15:36:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2023-10-17T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T20:36:40","slug":"international-day-for-the-eradication-of-poverty-everyone-deserves-access-to-basic-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=10990","title":{"rendered":"International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: Everyone deserves access to basic needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IntDayPoverty-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IntDayPoverty-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IntDayPoverty-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IntDayPoverty-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IntDayPoverty.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Access to basic human rights including water, food, and housing \u2013 is increasingly at risk or out of reach for many communities in Canada and countries around the world. As a union, our fight today and every day is to raise the standard of living for all workers, secure decent and safe working conditions, and &nbsp;help build equitable communities everywhere. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PSAC\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/psacunion.ca\/social-justice-fund\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Social Justice Fund<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;has been supporting the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcwsbd.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;since 2013 following the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/psacunion.ca\/remembering-victims-rana-plaza-disaster-building\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collapse<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;of the Rana Plaza building that killed over 1,200 workers and injured thousands of others. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bangladeshi garment workers are the lowest paid garment workers in the world \u2013 earning a minumum wage equivalent to 46 cents an hour, hardly enough to live on. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under constant pressure to meet production targets, garment workers take on excessive hours while their wages barely allow them to meet their basic needs. Workers are also subjected to physical and mental abuse on the production line. &nbsp;<br><br>Today, we re-commit ourselves to the global fight for workers, human rights and access to basic needs for all. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to basic human rights including water, food, and housing \u2013 is increasingly at risk or out of reach for many communities in Canada and countries around the world. As a union, our fight today and every day is to raise the standard of living for all workers, secure decent and safe working conditions, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/?p=10990\" class=\"more-link\">>><span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: Everyone deserves access to basic needs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10993,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions\/10993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unesen.ca\/press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}