More than 100 million workers in India stopped work for a 24 hour strike on 28 February. The strike demands included: Increase the minimum wage; Greater employment protection; An end to contracting out & outsourcing of jobs; Social security for unorganised & informal workers. You can read reports on the strike in the different […]
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Unionised Affco meat workers in New Zealand have gone on strike on strike today in support of 776 workers locked out by the company. Pickets started at the five lockout-affected North Island meat plants from 5am. The five plants are Affco’s national headquarters, Horotiu in the Waikato, Moerewa in Northland, […]
Workers united to protest against State land grabbing and in support of tea workers’ livelihoods on 25 February in Kandy. The protest and demands were special as was the solidarity across the sectors – Domestic workers, Garment workers, Co-operative workers, Rubber and Tea workers came in support of the tea […]
On 16 December at least 16 people were killed and hundreds more injured in Kazakhstan when the Nazarbayev regime ordered the use of troops and police against unarmed striking oil workers and their supporters who were protesting in a city square. Independent video footage shows police firing on protesters running from the […]
Wednesday 7 March 2012 – 6pm to 8pm You are invited to the AAWL Annual General Meeting Evatt room Trades Hall Lygon Street Carlton Activities report – Proposals for 2012 All AAWL members and affiliates are welcome You can join or renew your membership at the door Download the AGM leaflet […]
Wednesday 7 March 2012 – 6pm to 8pm You are invited to the AAWL Annual General Meeting Evatt room Trades Hall Lygon Street Carlton Activities report – Proposals for 2012 All AAWL members and affiliates are welcome You can join or renew your membership at the door Download the AGM leaflet […]
Victorian nurses started rolling strike action on 24 February 2012 against the Baillieu state government over nurses’ wages, patient ratios, staffing levels and the commitment to provide safe and expert care to patients. The Australian Nurses Federation (Victoria Branch) is Victoria’s peak nursing industrial and professional body representing more than […]
An historic decision by a court in Turin, Italy was handed down on 13 February criminalising the actions of asbestos company, Eternit. Eternit had four plants, the largest of which was in the town, Casale Monferrato. 1,800 of the town’s 35,000 people have died of asbestos-related diseases, including 800 that […]
On 7 September 2010 Indian workers staged the world’s biggest ever strike, with an estimated 100 million workers taking part in a 24 hour strike. This year, all major trade union federations* in India have called another general strike for 28 February. Indian workers are expected to come out in huge […]
International Women’s Day (IWD) originated in 1911, when women garment workers in New York held demonstrations protesting against their appalling and dangerous working conditions, after a fire engulfed their factory. On IWD in 1917, Russian women textile workers went on strike. They gained wide public support and initiated the revolution […]