Joe’s Fashion, a garment factory in the Korangi Industrial Area of Karachi, earlier this year locked out its workforce of about a thousand employees. The owner then transferred all the machinery to a sister company located in an export processing zone guarded by private security. The same owner had recently […]
Monthly Archives: February 2013
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As reported in previous news, South Korean workers are taking ever more desperate measures to counter the pressures they are under. Unfortunately, four trade unionists killed themselves late last year out of hopelessness. One of these, Mr. Choe Gang-seo, the organising director of the KMWU Hanjin local union, took his […]
With the coming of the Chinese New Year this year on the 10th of February, industrial disputes increase as workers fight to receive their end of year bonuses. Last week, around a thousand workers employed by the Tokai Rubber Industries staged a protest to complain that their end of year […]
Bangkok, Thailand. On 23 January Somyot Prueksakasemsuk was sentenced to 11 years in jail under Article 112. Article 112 is a law that provides for long prison sentences for "defaming the Thai royal family". In actual fact Article 112 is simply used to repress political opposition in Thailand. Article 112 […]
Union activist Bob Carnegie faces court in Brisbane, Australia, on February 11. Bob faces charges from a strike and picket last year at the Queensland Children's Hospital construction site. Workers struck for nine weeks against low wages being paid to some subcontracted plastering workers. The workers won, but now the […]
Over the last several years, hundreds of Korean Government Employees’ Union (KGEU) and the Korean Federation of Public Services and Transportation Workers’ Unions (KPTU) members have been unfairly dismissed from their jobs in retaliation for legitimate union activities. Over 300 of these workers have yet to be reinstated. The President of […]
Australia Day on January 26 marks the day Europeans began their occupation of Aboriginal land. The process of occupation and colonisation has been a devastating one for the Indigenous people of Australia. Marches, remembrance events and music festivals were held throughout Australia by Aboriginal people and their supporters to commemorate […]
In December 2012, the first ever co-ordinated leafleting campaign was executed, with simultaneous actions at Philippines Airlines check-in counters at airports in Hong Kong, Manila, Melbourne, Sydney, San Francisco and Toronto. Philippines Airlines Employees Association workers are still fighting for reinstatement after their dismissal in September 2011. On 16 […]
Just two months after the disastrous fire at the Tazreen factory where 112 garment workers died when their factory caught fire, another 7 workers were killed when the Smart factory caught fire on Saturday the 26 of January. Early investigations into this tragedy have revealed a total lack of fire […]
The giant conglomerate of Samsung has a terrible safety record at its South Korean plants with many workers becoming sick and dying. On the 28th of January, Mr. Park became the latest worker to be killed at Samsung, with four others hospitalised due to an escape of hydrofluoric acid gas. […]