As reported last week, the crackdown against migrant workers in Saudi Arabia is continuing. Three workers have been killed, around 100 injured and more than 20,000 workers having been arrested so far. Almost one-third of Saudi Arabia's 28 million population is foreign workers, the majority employed as labourers and domestic […]
Monthly Archives: November 2013
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While low wages and weak labour laws have encouraged many garment companies to set up in Cambodia, workers have organised many protests over the years to better their wages and conditions. Unfortunately they have often been met with violence from government forces and hired thugs. In a demonstration of workers […]
As reported last week, the suicide of Mr. Choi Jong-beom, struck a chord with many other workers in relation to the precarious nature and intensity of their workplaces. This week, the reason behind Choi’s death was one of the themes of the annual workers march to commemorate the anniversary of […]
The low wages and dangerous conditions that workers in the palm oil industry in Indonesia have to endure have been an issue for many years. This week, hundreds of workers and their supporters held a demonstration at the annual meeting of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Actions such […]
After decades of repression under Saddam Hussein’s government, followed by the decade of invasion and occupation by US forces, Iraqi unions are still defiant in their attempts to organise. Many activists are routinely targeted for harassment with some killed for their attempt to uphold their rights. Their struggle has now […]
As previously reported, the human right situation for labour and human rights activists in Sri Lanka continues to be very bleak (see here, here and here). For the current Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo, the government has increased the presence of its security forces in and around […]
Following on from last week's successful general strike, workers have vowed not to be intimidated by attacks by right wing thugs which resulted in workers being hospitalised. This strike was a political and organisational test for many of the new independent trade unions that have been formed in the last […]
As reported many times before, the fight for workers rights at Samsung in South Korea has been a long and bitter one. This week, Mr. Choi Jong-beom, a 32 year old contractor killed himself accusing the company of driving him to this desperate measure because of overwork and intimidation. This […]
An Ethiopian migrant worker was killed by Saudi Arabian police amid a sweeping round up of ‘illegal’ migrant workers in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia had welcomed millions of migrant workers from all around the world in previous years to work mainly as domestics, labourers or in the construction industry for […]
In a long running dispute, hundreds of workers employed by the global snack food company Mondelez Cadbury, situated in Balochistan province, have been stepping up their actions in their fight for permanent jobs. Casualisation and contracting out is a favoured tactic by companies to undermine workers conditions and ability to […]