12,000 Turkish textile workers have gone on strike since 15 August 2013 over wages. The strike covers around 30 major textile and clothing producers including Altinyildiz, Bahariye Mensucat, and Levi-Strauss. Textile workers in Turkey live below the poverty line and much of the dispute has centred on maintaining special wage […]
Monthly Archives: August 2013
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There has been another two fatalities in the global ship breaking industry, one of the world’s deadliest industries. We’ve reported extensively on the dangers of this industry – see here, here and here. “The Love Boat” made famous by the 70s US sitcom, was shipped into Turkey’s ship breaking region […]
Sugar workers in Fiji have voted to take strike action in support of wage demands, amidst massive bullying by Fiji’s Sugar Corporation. The strike could cripple Fiji’s already failing sugar industry, but the General Workers Union (FSGWU) said that seven years of the FSC’s refusal to bargain, of violating labour […]
Reports have now surfaced that two weeks ago Kagi Lucman, president of the Notre Dame Village Operators and Drivers Association – part of the ITF-affiliated National Confederation of Transport workers’ Unions – was shot dead by a gunman. His death follows the murder on 2 July of Antonio ‘Dodong’ Petalcorin, […]
This week, after a heroic and determined ten months atop an electricity pylon, Hoe Byeong-seung and fellow protestor Cheon Ui-bong brought their protest to an end. While their touchdown was greeted with enthusiasm by hundreds of supporters, the issue of contract work at Hyundai is still not resolved. The use […]
The industrial accident at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal is still an unresolved crime site after almost 30 years. Around 25,000 people have died as a direct result of the accidents, but no one has been tried for murder and thousands are still without compensation. Recent reports of new […]
Two years after the tsunami that crippled the Fukushima nuclear plant in northern Japan, the company TEPCO has had to admit that it is still not able to contain the damage. Latest reports indicate that over 270,000 litres of radioactive water are pouring into the ocean every day. While the […]
The global Samsung Corporation is renowned for its anti union activities and bad occupational health and safety record, with the latest workers being killed just last week. A new investigation has now shown how Samsung uses sub contractors to outsource its responsibilities. High risk jobs, tight schedules and high volume […]
In acts of ongoing defiance against the repression from the Israeli state, Palestinians in Israeli jails have mounted a series of hunger strikes in the last couple of years. In the last few weeks the numbers of prisoners joining the hunger strike has increased to coincide with the peace talks […]
In the closing stages of the bloody Iraq-Iran war of 1980 to 1988, the Iranian government in the summer of 1988 executed many thousands of left wing political prisoners. Many of the prisoners were at the end of their sentences. It is thought the Iranian government was afraid of releasing […]