With the 1st year anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse just a couple of weeks away, the issue of justice for workers is very stark. While the death of over a thousands workers made international headlines, the companies involved in this massacre have been negligent in paying compensation to the […]
Daily Archives: April 20, 2014
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Thirty three workers in Western Australia may lose their cars, homes or other property, after a court ordered bailiffs to seize the workers’ property for refusing to pay fines for striking. The workers were fined up to $10,000 each for an eight-day strike on a Woodside liquefied natural gas (LNG) […]
In late March, more than 500 migrant workers from Myanmar went on strike at their garment factory in Mae Sot, North Thailand. They were paid less than minimum wage, fined for taking sick leave and receive no assistance or compensation for occupational injuries or disease. After a week on strike […]
“Another Promise” tells the story of Hwang Yu-mi, who died of leukemia after working in a Samsung semiconductor factory in Korea. Approximately 200 workers have alleged that they contracted occupational diseases from working in Samsung. More than 50 have died – almost all of them young women. Supporters for the […]
Global Union IndustriAll has released a report highlighting 41 deaths at Rio-Tinto operations around the world in 2013 – including 33 in a tunnel collapse in Indonesia in May 2013. IndustriAll also highlighted two uranium spills at Rio Tinto mines last year, and Rio Tinto’s role in dispossessing people of […]
Some sixty thousand workers went on strike at seven factories of the multinational Taiwanese shoe manufacturer Yue Yuen, in the Southern Chinese city of Dongguan on 14 April. Workers demanded their full social security entitlements and housing fund contributions. Workers from Yue Yuen first took strike action on 5 April, […]
After years of struggle, union activists have won 11 of the 12 seats in the union election at Maruti Suzuki factory in the Gurgaon industrial zone, near New Delhi. This win is enormously significant, given the constant attacks against this union since it began organising workers in 2002. 147 members […]