A landmark report this week by the Australian Industrial Commission, FWA, has found that one of the major companies in the Australian poultry processing industry, the Baiada group, has set up its business model in order to increase profits by underpaying its workers. Baiada uses an operating model that transfers costs […]
Monthly Archives: June 2015
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The history of Australia is one of colonisation, dispossession and genocide. While there have been improvements, the reality is that Aboriginal people are still the poorest and most discriminated section of the Australian population. Aboriginal people are still fighting against Governments, institutions and companies for their right to culture, land […]
Afghanistan is a country that has been engulfed in war for the last 35 years and where workers face incredible dangers. Notwithstanding this history, since the start of June thousands of high school teachers have been on strike in a co-ordinated campaign across the country led by the Teachers National […]
As previously reported, many workers in China face precarious employment due to casualisation and contracting out. The death of a sanitation worker in Shenzen last month as he was sweeping, has galvanised fellow workers to fight for better working conditions and against outsourcing employment arrangements. This same week, a report […]
In the face of continuing mass protests by Palestinian prisoners, and their non co-operation even when on hunger strike, Israel authorities are resorting to ever more brutal tactics. The Israeli government now is proposing that Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike be force fed, a move that many Israeli doctors are […]
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 […]
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 […]