Earlier this week, to mark the one year anniversary of the jailing of 147 of their fellow workers, the Maruti Suzuki workers union had planned a demonstration and an indefinite hunger strike. The local authorities tried to stop the march by imposing a ban on all demonstrations. The workers defied […]
Daily Archives: July 21, 2013
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The Hyundai motor company has used casual and sub contracting employment practices to drive down wages and conditions of its workforce. Workers have campaigned hard against these practices, with two workers now into their 9th month of a heroic aerial sit-in protest. To support these workers and highlight the campaign […]
Samsung is not only a huge corporation that operates all over the world, but also has a notorious record of anti union activities, click here and here. Not surprisingly, it also has a terrible health and safety record. It's therefore quite significant that 400 sub-contractors of Samsung are forming a […]
Workers at Turkish Airlines have been on strike since May 15 against the company’s fierce anti union and union busting tactics. Hava Is, the union representing workers in the airlines industry in Turkey requested that management enter into negotiations over the next Collective Bargaining Agreement. The union is demanding wage […]
Dynamic Precision Ltd. is a Taiwanese company that produced golf clubs for Adidas at its factory in Guangzhou. Due to the terrible health and safety conditions, over 100 workers have acquired injuries or illnesses like pneumoconiosis, deafness, and benzolism. Faced with claims by the workers for compensation, the company suddenly […]
Almost 3 years ago, 29 miners were killed at the Pike River coal mine following a large methane explosion. A Royal Commission investigating the disaster found that the deaths were caused by substandard health and safety conditions at the mine. Earlier this month, a court ordered the company to pay […]