Yearly Archives: 2012

The Tumtis union in Turkey continues to fight for the reinstatement of 20 workers at multinational freight and courier company DHL. The workers were sacked for attempting to organise a union in one of the company's warehouses. They continue to face harassment from DHL management over their union membership. The […]

The Burmese government will allow Mr. Maung Maung, the General Secretary of the Federation of Trade Unions Burma to return to Burma after years in exile. Mr. Maung has been in exile in Thailand and has been advocating for the rights of Burmese workers and trade unions inside Burma and […]

Over the last 6 weeks, workers at the Maruti Suzuki factory in Gurgaon, India have faced ongoing repression. While many workers have been jailed on trumped up charges, other trade unions are now offering their support. Progressive student groups have also shown solidarity and support with these workers, with an […]

Earlier this week, Fiji's Trade Union Congress (FTUC) national secretary Felix Anthony quit the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) declaring that they did not represent workers anymore. Mr. Anthony called on the party to be more democratic and racially inclusive. His resignation follows on from the resignation of Wages Council chairman, […]

While there are hundreds of thousands of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, their working conditions remain very hard. Recent cases have not only highlighted the physical and sexual abuse that many workers endure, but the substandard conditions that they work and live in. This situation is made worse by […]

Outsourcing is happening everywhere in the airline industry. Companies outsource in order to increase profits. A big part of outsourcing is the attempt to break our unions. It is via unions that we win better wages and conditions.   Workers resist outsourcing by fighting against it at their workplaces. But […]

Outsourcing is happening everywhere in the airline industry. Companies outsource in order to increase profits. A big part of outsourcing is the attempt to break our unions. It is via unions that we win better wages and conditions.   Workers resist outsourcing by fighting against it at their workplaces. But […]

Workers at Hyundai motors in South Korea are in an industrial dispute with management. Both regular workers and irregular subcontractors have been taking industrial action. The regular workers union is demanding an end to the overnight “graveyard” shift and for a larger percentage of company profits to be allocated to […]

The Sri Lankan government has closed 13 of the country’s 15 universities indefinitely, because academics have been on strike for almost two months. The striking academics reject government plans to partially privatise the tertiary education system, which is currently state-funded and free. The Federation of University Teachers Associations (FUTA) is […]

On August 12th, Japanese trade unions, including the All Japan Dockworkers' Union, National Railway Workers' Union, Japan Construction and Transport Industry Workers Solidarity Union, National Union of General Workers and Tokyo Sanitation Workers' Union held a protest forum against the restarting of nuclear power plants in Japan. This is a […]