Last week, around 5,000 workers at the Renault car factory in Bursa went out on strike demanding better pay. They were soon joined in solidarity protests by thousands of Fiat car workers who also went out seeking better pay and conditions. These strikes are now affecting the whole industrial region […]
Daily Archives: May 24, 2015
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As reported last week, thousand of desperate workers from Burma and Bangladesh are stuck on the high seas as they try to flee repression, exploitation and poverty. Their situation has been made worse by increasing aggressive and repressive policies by governments around the region as they seek to control and […]
The 22 of May was the first anniversary of the military coup in Thailand. After one year, the military is still in power and showing no sign of going back to the barracks, with no justice forthcoming for victims. With the first year anniversary of the coup, the military was […]
As reported before, conditions and exploitation in the fashion industry are among the worst in the world (see here, here and here). While workers toil under incredible pressures and dangerous conditions, the fashion houses of the world make huge profits by selling clothes at highly inflated prices. A new documentary […]
The far right anti Islamic group Reclaim Australia that held nationwide protests in early April, has split in the process of trying to organise another round of racist rallies in mid July. The new organisation, called United Patriots Front (UFP), is organising a new rally for the 31st of May […]
As reported a number of times previously, Japanese workers continue to face increasing pressures at work such as long work hours and precarious work contracts. In a recent action, thousands of people rallied in Tokyo to protest against the government’s proposed new labour laws. Labour activists say these new laws […]
The garment and textile industry has expanded greatly in Cambodia in the last decade basing itself on cheap wages and low overheads. Over the last couple of years, garment workers have fought back strongly, organising mass demonstrations and strikes against repression and starvation wages. A recent report by Human Rights […]