Yearly Archives: 2013

In a very disappointing outcome, Mr. Yi Yoon-seong lost an appeal in the Seoul administrative court for damages against Samsung Electronic. In 15 years of employment at Samsung, Yi used around 20 toxic chemicals in his duties to clean and maintain furnaces. Yi was never trained in how to use […]

In a fantastic show of solidarity and global organising, sugar workers in the Indian states of Karnataka and Maharashtra have held protest rallies against the plan by the Fiji Sugar Corporation to recruit sugar mill engineers to break a strike in Fiji by sugar workers. The strike in Fiji is […]

In the same week that a Hong Kong human rights organisation has publicly protested against Article 112 in Thailand, Ms. Paphachanan Ingchan was sentenced to 3 years in prison under this draconian law. In addition, another activist in exile, Junya Lek Yimpresert, has been charged under Article 112. Next week, […]

Come to AAWL’s next Public Meeting that will examine the role of the labour movement in the Middle East and North Africa’s significant uprisings.   Wednesday 4 September At 6pm Evatt Room, Trades Hall Lygon Street, Carlton   Download leaflet here   All welcome  

In a case that exemplifies the problems that short term migrant workers in Australia face, Mr. Jessie Cayanan is still battling deportation and the prospective loss of thousands of dollars. While a demonstration in his support was recently held, and his local union, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, is supporting […]

As previously reported, two tutors, Ms. Oh Soo-young and Ms. Yeo Min-hee, had been protesting their dismissal from Jaenung Education (JEI), a private education institute, since the end of 2007. This week, JEI agreed to reinstate all of the 11 workers fired back in December of 2007 as well as […]

This week massive protests were held all over the Philippines to protest against the wide scale corruption that exists in the Philippines political system. What triggered this outcry were the recent revelations about the US $232 million that businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles embezzled to pay bribes to politicians. With many […]

As reported previously, the government of Kuwait has deported thousands of workers this year in an unrelenting campaign against migrant workers under the guise of law and order. This has led to workers being victimised, being afraid to report crimes against them, as well as literally being deported off the […]

Ms. Mandana Ismail Abewickrema is the Associate Editor for The Sunday Leader and president of Sri Lanka’s first trade union for journalists. Mandana was confronted by four assailants in the middle of the night who told her that they had been hired because someone had put a contract on her. […]

Following on from the mass murder of workers at the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh earlier this year, there has been renewed focus on how companies search the world for the lowest labour costs. Companies race to have the lowest overheads like fire and other occupational safety in order to chase […]