Nepalese migrant workers are dying at a rate of almost one worker per day as a result of slavery conditions and severe abuses in Qatar. Exploitation of migrant workers is unrelenting in many parts of the world – see our previous reports here, here and here. In light of the […]
Daily Archives: September 29, 2013
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Protesters marched in Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday 28 September, calling for justice for Indigenous Australians on the 30th anniversary of the death in custody of Aboriginal teenager John Pat. John Pat's death prompted the Royal Commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, which, despite over 300 recommendations that have not […]
This week, 200,000 Bangladeshi garment workers protested for three days straight outside factories in the country’s capital, Dhaka, demanding decent wages and rejecting the appalling low offer made to them by garment industry bosses. As previously reported wages and conditions in Bangladesh’s garment industry are abysmal and resulted in the […]
We previously reported on the collapse of a mining tunnel at Freeport McMoran in May this year, which claimed the lives of 28 workers. Earlier this month, the mining sector of the global union federation IndustriALL, and the CFMEU in Australia led a delegation to Indonesia to extend international support […]
Len Cooper, AAWL Chairperson and Secretary of the Communications Workers Union, T&S Victoria, attended a series of international conferences in June in the Philippines dealing with working people’s rights, including Resisting Repression, Reclaiming Rights – An international workshop on Freedom of Association. Join the discussion about how we can support […]