The daily minimum wage of garment workers in the state of Haryana, India is only about US$3.50, with women often receiving less. Workers wages are reduced even further by ‘deductions’, such as for social security insurance, which the workers never see again. A local organisation is campaigning to stop the […]
Monthly Archives: March 2012
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In an historic move, close to a1,000 workers at the Tai Yi footwear factory in Burma’s capital, Yangon, have said that they will form a new union to represent their interests. Around 1,800 workers at this factory have been on strike since early February around improvement in wages and working […]
Kamal Abbas, coordinator of the Egyptian Centre for Trade Union and Workers’ Services (CTUWS), has been sentenced to six months imprisonment for insulting a public officer. Under Mubarak, Kamal faced a similar one-year prison term over a confrontation with a state-sponsored union official. Kamal has been calling for and building […]
Workers in New Zealand are facing an ongoing assault on their conditions and wages. Meat workers are bracing for a protracted struggle as the AFFCO meat company has locked out hundreds of its employees over pay and conditions. At the Port of Auckland, 300 workers are on strike over the […]
Locked out ground staff at Philippine Airlines are now in their sixth month on the picket line. They are resisting Philippine Airlines’ attempts to outsource their jobs, which would result in pay cuts of around 50% along with a loss of seniority and union protection. Members of Philippine Airlines Employees […]
Around 100 workers employed by the Spanish steel multinational Sarralle in Kolkata have been conducting a sit in strike for a month. The workers had been trying to organise a union within the company to get better conditions. The company responded by dismissing 18 of these workers and also by […]
Following on from last month’s crackdown on protesting fishing communities where one person was killed by security personnel, reports are that Mr. Herman Kumara, a long time human right activist, is facing threats to his life. Mr. Kumara is one of the founding members of the Platform for Freedom in […]
The fight against the Lynas rare earth refinery being built in Kuantan, Malaysia is continuing with increasing public opposition. Lynas was supposed to have built this refinery near the mine sites in Western Australia but decided to switch to Malaysia because of its weak environmental and OHS standards. This facility […]
Australian uranium has been fuelling Fukushima. We must stop the mining and export of this unsustainable and dangerous resource so that we will not have any more nuclear disasters. There will be protests in many Australian cities against the mining and export of uranium, and to remember the many victims of […]
Trade unionist and political prisoner Liliany Obando was released on Thursday 1 March 2012 from the prison where she had been held for almost 4 years on charges of “rebellion”. Liliany was arrested in 2008 while serving as the Human Rights Coordinator for FENSUAGRO, Colombia’s largest organization of peasant farmers […]