The government of Cambodia is preparing to amend its labour law and indications are that the government plans to use it to restrict the ability of workers to unionise. The last couple of years we have witnessed great struggles by Cambodian workers (see here, here and here), and increasing unionisation […]
Daily Archives: June 14, 2015
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As reported previously, the fight by thousands of Filipino workers, employed by the national airline carrier PAL, against contracting out and casualisation has been long and hard (see click here, here and here). In November 2013, after more than two years on the picket line, the union representing the workers, […]
As reported last week, Korean workers that were employed by electronic company Hydis, took their action to Taiwan in order to pressure the company and fight for their jobs. The workers demonstrated outside both the company’s headquarters and the Taipei Parliament, as well as engaging in a hunger strike. Unfortunately, […]
Following on from last week’s story on a boat carrying asylum seekers turned back to Indonesia, new reports allege that the Australian government bribed the people in charge of the boat. It is alleged that custom officials paid AUS $5,000 to six people so that they would turn back. Deportations of refugees to the […]
The collapse of the Rana Plaza building over two years ago marks a low point for workers everywhere in the world. This mass killing of workers has spurred many international actions in support of garment workers in Bangladesh and elsewhere. The Rana Plaza Compensation Fund was established to collect money […]
The military regime in Thailand has now entered its second year and it is showing no signs of giving up power. In an announcement earlier this month, the Labour Ministry said that it will abandon the country’s minimum wage next year. The ministry stated that the current wage of 300 […]
In the aftermath of the devastation of the Second World War, there has been a very strong anti war movement in Japan. Since the election of the current Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, there has been a marked increase in military spending by the Japanese government. This has led to an […]
3CR is an activist radio station. For 39 years, 3CR Community Radio in Melbourne, Australia has brought you union, worker, indigenous, women’s, ethnic, environmental, music and other community programs that are not heard elsewhere. Every week AAWL presents its Asia Pacific Currents program on 3CR Radio. 3CR’s programs are podcast […]