After decades in which few women were part of union leadership in the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), more union women are running for office while also making concrete gains in establishing family-friendly polices at the national and local union levels. In Bangladesh, shrimp industry representatives and the Solidarity Center signed a memorandum of agreement this week that moves toward improving working conditions for the nearly 1 million shrimp workers who toil during peak season across the supply chain. Read more at the Solidarity Center.