The situation for workers in Turkey is deteriorating with increasing pressure being applied against workers organising. Earlier this year we saw workers being fired at Trextra, an Apple supplier, for trying to organise a union. In the last few weeks airline workers have been attacked by both company and government, […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
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11 workers were killed and several sustained serious burn injuries in a major explosion at RINL Visakhapatnam steel plant, Andhra Pradesh, India. Safety at the steel plant came under serious scrutiny in recent times following an accident on May 1, 2012, when two contract workers were burnt to death in […]
20 June marks World Refugee Day. War and oppression creates refugees. Capitalism creates war and oppression. Refugees are workers who are running from bombs and running from starvation. They go to countries like Greece, the United States, Egypt, Malaysia and Korea where they are constantly being threatened with deportation. They […]
Li Wangyang, a Chinese trade union activist, died earlier this month in suspicious circumstances at a hospital in Hunan. Li Wangyang spent 22 years in prison for his part in organising workers during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Mr Li had been released from jail last May due to […]
POSCO is a Korean owned multinational who in the early years of this century struck a deal with the Indian government to build a $12 Billion project in Orissa consisting of mines, a steel plant and a port. Local communities have consistently fought against this project on the grounds that […]
The uprising in Yemen over the last couple of years has often been reported as a fight against the dictatorship by disaffected regional and religious groups. What has not been reported as much is that workers have also been heavily involved in this struggle, organising many general strikes, as well […]
Last month we reported that over 10,000 paper workers in West Java, Indonesia had won major wage increases. Unfortunately, the management of PT. Pindo Deli, has refused to honour the agreement that was reached following the short 2 day strike in May. The Paper Workers Union has now called for […]
Last week we reported on the ongoing mobilisations by Turkish aviation workers against proposed new laws that would practically ban the right to strike. Turkish Airlines reacted to this by summarily dismissing 300 workers who participated in these rallies. For more information and solidarity, click here.
The South Korean government’s repression against the Migrants Trade Union (MTU) and its officers continues. The MTU has been at the forefront of many struggles in the last few years to defend the rights of migrant workers in South Korea for better pay, conditions and the right of residency. Most […]
The USA invasion of Iraq did not signal the end of repression for workers, and instead gave rise to even more brutal attacks. The oil industry is the backbone of the Iraqi economy so its workforce has always come under pressure from various governments. While direct assassinations of trade union […]