With the population of Israeli settlers in the West Bank over half a million strong, the pressures on Palestinians are ever increasing. In the month of July, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (check out the English and Arabic websites) has been targeted by the occupying Israeli forces. Dr. Moayad […]
Yearly Archives: 2012
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While much of the mainstream media and governments portray migrant workers as a problem to be managed, the reality is very different. Migrant workers in most countries of the world live in fear of deportation, have less bargaining and organising rights than other workers, and subsequently have to endure lower […]
In the last two years, textile workers in and around the Indian city of Ludhiana, in Punjab state, have kept up a series of disputes in order to win better wages and conditions. This week, their newly formed union, the Textile Mazdoor Union (TMU), held its founding conference. Around 200 […]
With the recently formed ‘Network of Family members and People affected by the Article 112’ (the Lese Majeste law), activists are continuing to campaign for the release of arrested people. Last month, charges were dropped against Chotisak Onsoong and his friend who were arrested for not standing up for the […]
In 2009 thousands of workers at the Ssangyong Motor Company production factory took action to stop mass lay offs. The workers occupied part of the factory and held out for over 2 months against repeated assaults by the police and military. Many workers were jailed afterwards. Mr Han Sang Kyun, […]
Late last month in the Philippines all 16 affiliates of the global union IndustriALL met for a national conference to develop a strategy to fight against contract and precarious employment. One of the issues for outsourced workers is their inability to be part of collective agreements. In Indonesia, the KASBI trade […]
On 25 July, about 2,000 workers at the Burgylai company, a contractor to the KazMunaiGaz oil company, went on a 2 hour strike, and held a rally at the company to demand the release of their jailed comrades. Thirteen oil workers and supporters have been sentenced to between three and […]
With the anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the coming week, People in Japan have continued to oppose the restarting of nuclear plants following the Fukushima disaster of a few months ago. On the back of an anti nuclear rally that attracted almost 200,000 people, a petition […]
At two recent protests by workers at the Asan factory of car parts maker SJM, as well as the Pyeongtaek, Munmak, and Iksan factories of Mando Corporation, workers have faced increased repression. Not only did management institute a lockout of union members, they then hired private thugs to harass and […]
The Pakistan Labour Federation (PLF) has condemned a planned restructure in the Pakistan Telecommunication Company where 16,000 jobs are to be slashed. This comes on top of the shedding of tens of thousands of other positions in 2008 when the company was privatised. The PLF sees this new manoeuvre as […]