As reported last week, over 900 garment workers have been occupying their factory in a struggle to maintain their jobs and entitlements. The workers recently released a video explaining their struggle and the pressure they have been put under. There has also been increasing international actions in support of these […]
Monthly Archives: July 2015
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The appalling exploitation of garment workers in Bangladesh has been reported on extensively before (see here, here and here). Nevertheless, companies continue to want to increase their profits by cutting wages and conditions. Another tactic is to close a factory after a big order and not pay months of workers’ […]
As reported earlier this year, Cha Gwang-ho broke the record for the longest occupation protest of a chimney or similar aerial structure. Cha was fighting the Star company over his dismissal. Last week, Cha decided to end his protest after an incredible 408 days atop an industrial chimney stack. While […]
Around 140 women working for Sera Pool in Istanbul that produces panels for swimming pools and showers, have been on a picket for over three weeks after the sacking of a fellow worker. The original dispute was around low pay, speed of work, heavy lifting and hazardous dust levels in […]
As we recently reported, teachers in Iran have been facing increasing repression. Their leader Esmail Abdi was recently arrested by authorities as he was about to leave the country for a conference. Latest reports indicate that he is in good health and there may be hope that he will be […]
Since early June, over 900 workers employed by the Artigas garment factory in Guanlan Township, Shenzhen, have been on strike against the company’s attempts to shut the factory and not pay their entitlements. This is not the first time the workers have been on strike. The workers have been occupying […]
In a situation that is becoming increasingly common in our globalised world, the giant energy company Caltex, has been seeking to replace a unionised workforce with a non unionised one. The aim of the company is to undermine the wages and conditions that Australian maritime workers have won over years […]
A few years ago, the workers at Turkish Airlines (TA) waged a hard struggle against the company to get over 300 sacked union members reinstated. In response the Turkish government managed to organise a take over of the aviation union, Hava Is, as well as splitting the workforce among different […]
As previously reported, Cambodian workers are campaigning against a new government labour code that would seriously restrict the right to organise and form unions in Cambodia. The outcome of such a law would mean that garment workers producing clothes for Armani would find it almost impossible to take action to […]
As reported last week, a number of activists of a group calling itself the ‘New Democracy Movement’, were arrested by the Thai military junta. Amid continuing internal and external pressure, these activists have been released on bail but are still facing the possibility of many years in jail. Supporters from […]