With the election of a new conservative government in Australia, the situation for asylum seekers has become even worse than it was before. The Liberal/National coalition Government has stated that it will try and turn any incoming boats back to the high seas, any asylum seekers that will arrive by […]
Monthly Archives: September 2013
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The Korean Public Transport Union was expecting a hard summer in their attempts to stop the wholesale privatisation of the Railway system. Due to public pressure and obvious irregularities in the appointment of a CEO of the Korean Railroad Corporation, the government’s plans were delayed. The KPTU though is now […]
The Alcoa Company is a global giant – it’s the world’s leading producer of aluminum as well as the largest miner of bauxite, with a presence in over 30 countries. Workers in Alcoa have now started to organise internationally by forming the ‘Global Network of Unions at Alcoa’. For a […]
As reported previously, Thailand is a country where many industries exploit the presence of large numbers of undocumented workers from neighbouring countries. The fishing industry is one of these industries with recent media reports highlighting the issue of human trafficking, while the ILO has just published a report exposing the […]
The fight by workers at the Ssangyong Motor Company that was started in 2009 with the heroic occupation of their factory is still continuing despite many setbacks. Former workers of Ssangyong have now started a public hunger strike. They were encouraged by a visit by international trade union representatives. For […]
As previously reported, the fight by the Maruti Suzuki workers in the Gurgaon region of India, near Delhi, was a bitter and historic struggle by workers in their attempts to form an independent trade union. The efforts of the Maruti workers are now focused on getting their comrades out of […]
While Iraq is still in the grips of armed civil conflict, workers are reorganising and attempting to improve their wages and conditions. Following dismissals of hundreds of workers at a state owned leather factory, the Federation of Workers Councils & Unions of Iraq organised a number of actions to highlight […]
As we reported last week, garment workers’ conditions will only improve when workers are organised enough to win better pay and conditions. This week, news came that injured workers and families of dead workers from the Rana Plaza collapse, the Tazreen fire, and the fire at the Ali Enterprise fire […]
Notwithstanding the direct and continuing brutal repression by the Israeli state against Palestinians, workers in Palestine also face daily hardships. The economic restrictions placed by Israel, coupled with widespread corruption, places workers in Palestine under terrible hardships. This week, medical workers in Palestine went on strike to protest at continuing […]
With the internal conflict in Syria now in its third year and around 2 million refugees from the conflict, the situation for workers and their communities is being further endangered by the stated aim of the USA to bomb Syria. While this bombing is couched in the language of democracy […]