It is almost two years ago that the single greatest industrial massacre in the world occurred in Dhaka, Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza building collapsed. The building housed a number of textile factories and over 1,100 garment workers were killed in the collapse. Hundreds more were injured. Compensation payments to […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
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With the approaching first anniversary of the Soma mine disaster where 301 miners were killed, the Occupational Health and Safety situation remains as bad as ever. Earlier this year a report detailed that in 2014, 1,886 workers in Turkey were killed at their workplaces. This year’s toll is heading to […]
The inhumane conditions that workers in the ship breaking industry in South Asia face, have been reported on before. Ships from the European Union make up a majority of these ships. The European Union is proposing new legislation that is intended to clean up this industry. Unfortunately, the current version […]
The effects and repression of the continued occupation and colonisation of Palestine by the Israeli settler state has been reported many times, click here, here, and here. A new report by human rights watch details how Israeli farms based in the occupied West Bank are able to exploit the misery […]
On Monday the 13th of April Melinda “Mei” Magsino was walking home when a single assailant came up behind her and shot her in the head at point blank range. Mei had stopped working formally as a journalist a few years ago but in her time as a journalist she […]
As reported previously, while trade unions are strictly controlled in China, activism and independent organising in is increasing as more and more workers protest against low pay, unsafe work conditions and long working hours. Recently there have been high profile strikes at the Cuiheng bag factory in Zhongshan and at […]
The dire situation of Palestinians living in the Yarmouk camp in the outskirts of Damascus has previously been reported. While only around 18,000 people remain in the bombed-out camp, the situation in the last couple of weeks has deteriorated further with the entry of Islamic State fighters into the camp. […]
The Korean based, global company of Samsung has a deservedly bad reputation as an anti-worker company that puts profits well ahead of workers’ safety. After many years of fighting Samsung, labour activists were starting to hope that the situation would improve. The latest developments in the battle for compensation for […]
It is almost two years ago that the single greatest industrial massacre in the world occurred in Dhaka, Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza building collapsed. The building housed a number of textile factories and over 1,100 garment workers were killed in the collapse. Hundreds more were injured. Compensation payments to […]
As reported previously, the fight for Aboriginal rights and culture in Australia has gained greater urgency with the proposed closure of hundreds of remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. This is part of the attempted genocide of Aboriginal cultures that has been perpetrated since the British first colonised Australia in […]