Yearly Archives: 2013

The factory fire at the Tazreen garment factory was one of two major disasters that affected garment workers last year. For the last few months, trade unions and family members have been campaigning to get compensation for the dead and injured. While the campaign for compensation is very important, only […]

Violence against women has been in the international spotlight for the last year amid greater publicity of cases of women being raped and murdered. Many events and rallies have been held calling for the end of violence against women. International Women’s Day (IWD) was the original day demanding equality for […]

Following on from the historic strike in India a few weeks ago where around 100 million workers participated, workers in many other countries are also fighting back against the continuing capitalist crisis. While workers in countries like Egypt and Tunisia have been at the forefront of uprisings in the last […]

A female leader of a community group in the Philippines was killed on 4th March. Cristina Morales Jose was shot and killed by an unidentified assassin on a motorcycle. She was a leader of the group Barug Katawhan, an organization of survivors of the typhoon Pablo disaster. She earlier exposed […]

As a job, journalists face many pressures with many being killed while doing their job. While some are killed in war situations, too many die because they are targeted by powerful forces in society. Just last week, three journalists were murdered in Pakistan. All had received death threats. Unfortunately a […]

Workers in Singapore are heavily constrained in terms of what actions they can take and the recent strike by bus drivers has brought a swift reaction from the government. Not only were many of the bus drivers deported back to China, but a court recently jailed four organisers for up […]

Workers have been fighting the issue of subcontracting at companies like Daewoo for many years. In a positive development, the South Korean Supreme court has judged that the company’s use of subcontracting in its automobile production lines was illegal. It will need to be seen if this translates into better […]

Amid heightened tensions in East Asia between China, South Korea and Japan over the possession of disputed islands, there are signs that organised opposition to this nationalism trend is also growing. Recently a right wing group in Japan held a rally demanding the Japanese government enforce territorial rights over the […]

You are invited to the AAWL Annual General Meeting: Moving Forward Wednesday 6 March at 6pm Evatt room Trades Hall Lygon Street Carlton Featured speakers on global industrial campaigns and solidarity with workers in Fiji and Kanaki All AAWL members and affiliates are welcome. You can join or renew your membership […]

Violence against women has been in the international spotlight for the last year amid greater publicity of cases of women being raped and murdered. Many events and rallies have been held calling for the end of violence against women. International Women’s Day (IWD) was the original day demanding equality for […]