Qantas is the latest aviation company that is seeking to increase its profits by shifting its operations to countries that have weaker unions and cheaper wages. Outsourcing internationally allows companies to exploit the regions where workers are not as well organised. International trade union organising is the best way to […]
Daily Archives: May 25, 2012
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The IUF, the international union that represents food, farm and hotel workers, has launched a new phase in the campaign to get 53 workers reinstated at the Panjang Nestle factory in Indonesia. The 53 workers were members of the IUF-affiliated SBNIP, and were arbitrarily dismissed in October 2011 after the […]
A fact finding report on the Regency Ceramics Workers’ Struggle in Yanam has been released by the Trade Union Solidarity Committee in Mumbai India. On 28 January 2012, police charged a non-violent union demonstration of locked out Ceramic Workers in Yanam, Pondicherry, killing the Union Leader, M.S Murali Mohan and […]
Around 1,400 workers employed by the garment manufacturer PT SC Enterprises, located in Klaten, Central Java, have been in a bitter dispute in the last two months as they try to organise into a trade union. The Italian owned company has now sacked over 40 workers this month and has […]
In the last decade, some regions of India, like Gurgaon near New Delhi, have experienced a wave of massive industrialisation. This has created a whole new population of workers, many of whom have limited trade union experience. Following on from major industrial disputes, (which you can read about here and […]
Two years ago, Danh Vansothy and Khuth Channa, along with several other workers, were dismissed for taking a leading role in the organising of a trade union at the K-Cement factory in Kampot province, Cambodia. The workers at this factory have continued to press for the reinstatement of their comrades, […]