Monthly Archives: July 2011

A three-year struggle by an ITF-affiliated union in India, backed by an ITF campaign, has secured a victory for trailer truck drivers at a port terminal in India; they all now have a collective bargaining agreement. The Transport and Dockworkers’ Union (TDWU) won collective bargaining agreements for workers in the […]

Dramatic developments take place in Korea at Hanjin Heavy Industries shipyard and Yuseong Piston Ring. Private security forces and riot police forced out protesters from the shipyard and the police issued arrest warrants for Yuseong Piston Ring union leaders who in sign of protest have started a hunger strike in […]

"In May 2011, knitwear manufacturer Blossom Road in Thomastown shut down, leaving 27 clothing workers without jobs," says Michele O’Neil, National and Victorian Secretary of the Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia. "Blossom Road, which supplied Scanlan and Theodore, went into liquidation owing its workers more than half a […]

NAIDOC Week starts in Australia NAIDOC stands for the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee. Its origins can be traced to the emergence of Aboriginal groups in the 1920s which sought to increase awareness in the wider community of the status and treatment of Indigenous Australians. Today, NAIDOC is […]

Melbourne, Saturday 9 July at 1 pm Rally: Close Broadmeadows Detention Centre! Children out of detention! Kmart carpark, corner Sydney Road & Camp Road, Campbelfield Rally followed by march to Broadmeadows detention centre (Melbourne Immigration Transit Accomodation). No child should be locked behind fences for seeking asylum. We need to […]

Melbourne rally: Friday 22 July at 5pm, Sate Library Swanston Street Melbourne Multinational corporations act only to benefit the privileged few at the expense of the majority. They reinforce exploitation of poor people, try to smash unionism and undermine workers rights, they have been known to terrorise and murder union […]

Melbourne rally: Friday 29 July at 5:30pm Sate Library Swanston Street Melbourne Stand up for Palestinian human rights. Support the Boycott-Israel19 Defence campaign On 1 July 2011, the Victorian police attacked a pro-Palestine demonstration in Melbourne. 19 protesters were arrested during a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) action against Israeli-owned […]

Hongik University, a private university in the Mapo-gu district of central Seoul, is claiming massive damages from cleaning workers who recently went on strike. The workers began their sit-in protest because of mass layoffs and excessively poor working conditions. The workers won an eight-hour workday at 4,450 won ($4.18) per […]

The Malaysian government is trying to manufacture a scare campaign around the Pro-Democracy Bersih rally planned for July 9 in Kuala Lumpur and is increasingly resorting to repression to try to prevent an expected huge attendance. More than 90 activists have been charged under the Section 122 of the Penal […]

  Melbourne   On the 30th April of this year Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, a journalist and labour activist, was arrested. He is facing up to 15 years in prison under the law of Lese Majeste. A person can be charged under Lese Majeste if accused of defaming, insulting or threatening the […]