Aminul Islam was an organiser with the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity and the Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation. In the huge wage protest movement of mid 2010, Mr. Islam had been arrested and tortured by the National Intelligence Service. On the evening of the 4th of April of […]
Daily Archives: April 20, 2012
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On April 16 2012 the Toyota plant in Altona Melbourne laid off 350 workers, the majority of whom are union activists. Toyota claims that the lay offs were part of a restructuring process and that “performance” based selection criteria was used to decide who was to be made redundant but […]
Earlier this month, the Korean Workers Compensation service approved payment for the death of Ms. Jisook Kim. Ms. Kim died from aplastic anaemia after working 6 years on the assembly line at the Onyang factory that produces semi conductors. Workers believe that this is only the start of many other such incidents […]
Worldwide, hundreds of thousands die in workplace “accidents”. Millions die of occupational diseases. Every year. Union organising is the remedy. Prevention is the only cure. Do you remember who died at work? Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living Assemble at 10:30am on Friday 27 April at Trades Hall, Cnr […]
For 6 months, PALEA has been fighting for the reinstatement of over 2,500 workers of Philippines Airlines who were sacked in October of last year. They were sacked for their refusal to be outsourced and casualised. Recently San Miguel corporation bought 49% of shares in Philippines Airlines, making it the […]