This coming week, Sydney University will host an international conference in Bangkok, Thailand entitled ‘Enhancing Human Rights and Security in the Asia Pacific’. Under pressure from the Sri Lankan military establishment, the conference organisers decided to stop two Sri Lankan human rights organisations from attending the conference. In addition, the […]
Monthly Archives: September 2014
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The bombing of the Gaza strip by Israel might have finished, but the repression of Palestinian people in the occupied territories continues. Israel has increased its settlement budget by 600% this year, money that is mostly spent on expanding illegal settlements inside the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Palestinian parlamentarian Khalida […]
Late last month, 200 sanitation workers at Guangzhou’s University Town took action to demand the right to collectively bargain with their employer and change their sham contracts. The workers also had to elect their own union representatives as there was no enterprise union. Earlier this month, the workers won their […]
There has been yet another delay in the ruling on a landmark court case, challenging the use of subcontracting by Korean auto company Hyundai. This court case, lodged in 2010 by 1,569 Hyundai subcontractors, is part of an 11-year struggle to force Hyundai to convert its subcontractors to full, permanent […]
5,000 workers at an ore mine in Iran's Bafgh region, went on strike to demand the release of two workers arrested by the State Security Forces because of a strike against privatisation in May this year. The security forces responded to this latest strike by arresting five more worker activists. […]
Australian unions rallied outside the headquarters of latex manufacturer Ansell, after the Australian government denied visas to visiting Sri Lankan comrades. The Sri Lankan unionists are in dispute with Ansell in Sri Lanka, after the company fired nearly 300 workers who went on strike in support of 11 sacked colleagues […]
The world’s sixth busiest port was blocked by striking truck drivers, demanding an increase in their wages and haulage rates. The strike was violently broken up by riot police. A very similar strike happened at the Shanghai port in 2011. Chinese workers often use social media to generate very large […]