As previously reported, workers at Turkish Airlines have been on strike since 15 May 2013 because the company has refused to bargain with the union in their next round of Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations. 305 workers that were previously sacked over industrial action are still fighting to be reinstated. The […]
Daily Archives: October 20, 2013
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The Korean government has demaded that the Korean teachers' Union (KTU) disaffiliate its unemployed members, or risk deregistration. The teachers have been given until October 23 to change their constitution or else the government will revoke the 60,000-member union’s official status, 14 years after it became an official union. The […]
We've brought you regular reports about the situation for migrant workers in Malaysia – see here, here and here. More recently, a Cambodian woman who has been working in the garment industry has been detained in Malaysia for nearly a month after she failed an annual health test and before […]
After bringing you a number of bad news stories in relation to Samsung Electronics in Korea (see here, here and here), we are finally able to bring you one small victory. On October 18, the Seoul administrative court ordered that KCOMWEL, the quasi-government entity responsible for workers compensation, pay industrial-accident […]
We've previously brought you a story about the conditions for migrant workers in Qatar in the lead up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup that is to be held there. Recently, two German broadcasters have been detained by Qatari police as they attempted to investigate the plight of migrant labourers […]
Workers at an Ansell rubber factory in Sri Lanka’s export processing zone have been on strike since 11 October to oppose union busting tactics by the company. Ansell is a multinational producer of latex rubber products such as gloves, condoms and related products. Parts of the company are incorporated in […]