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 […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
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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 […]
With the defeat of militant unions in the 60’s and 70’s, workers in Japan have seen their conditions progressively worsen with casualisation and precarious work becoming widespread. Workers from all sectors are increasingly fighting back, both industrially and legally. Earlier this month, teachers at the Ichishin Gakuin cram school won […]
The conditions that migrant workers have to endure in many countries in West Asia has been well documented, click here and here. A new report has highlighted how the rights of migrant workers in these countries are systematically abused. The laws that govern migrant workers routinely jeopardise workers legal status, […]
An accident in a warehouse in an industrial suburb of Phnom Penh that killed three workers has highlighted once again Cambodia’s deficient work safety legislation. The three workers were killed as they were attempting to unload a big piece of marble off a truck. They were not provided with any […]
As previously reported, teachers in Iran have been very active this year organising three nationwide days of protests over pay and conditions. Esmail Abdi, the General Secretary of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association, was arrested this week as he was about to leave the country to attend an international conference of the […]
As reported recently, international solidarity activists had organised another naval flotilla to bring much needed supplies to Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip. As in previous times, in an act of piracy on the high seas, these ships were intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military and forcibly taken […]
The economic crisis that has been engulfing Greece over the last four years has reached another turning point this Sunday the 5th of July with a referendum over whether to accept more austerity measures. Workers and their communities have been progressively impoverished in the last four years via cuts to […]
As reported previously, (see here, here and here), the military junta is consolidating its hold in Thailand suppressing all criticism of the coup (click for video). In the latest developments, a newly formed organisation called the ‘New Democracy Movement’ staged a series of protests in May to oppose the military […]