Yearly Archives: 2015

In an ongoing dispute, Star Chemical Company in South Korea closed down in early 2013. Some workers rejected the termination package and kept on fighting. Cha Gwang-ho decided to climb one of the company’s chimney’s in May 2014. He is still there, see video, after 10 months, having just broken […]

In a judgement handed out this week, an Australian Judge ordered a restaurant who had employed an Indian cook, to pay almost AUS $200,000 in back pay. The cook, Dulo Ram, had been sponsored to Australia under its 457 skilled worker visa system. The judge found that Ram had been […]

At the end of March, Thailand’s military junta announced that it is in the process of lifting martial law, but will replace it with a new security order. This announcement has been met with widespread scepticism as the new regulations will hand the military even more powers to suppress dissent. […]

As reported previously, the rate of deaths and injuries in Vietnamese workplaces is nothing short of an ongoing massacre. This week, a large scaffold structure collapsed at a seaport construction site in the Vung Ang economic zone in the central Ha Tinh province. At least 16 workers were killed and […]

As recently reported earlier this month, the situation for migrant workers in Malaysia remains precarious with many working for low wages, long days and dangerous conditions. Malaysia’s booming construction industry is especially dangerous. Just earlier this week, another four workers were killed at a construction site when an elevator they […]

Yemen was one of the countries were the ‘Arab Spring’ found fertile ground as people rose up against inequality, poverty, corruption and repression. Workers and unions were central to many of these struggles but the forces of reaction were also very strong and many people were killed. After 4 years, […]

With the continuation of the economic crisis around the world, the social and economic burden of this crisis is being felt by more and more workers and their communities. Reactionary elements are trying to use this hardship to divide workers along racial, ethnic or religious lines. In Australia, a new […]

In what appears to be a determined attempt to intimidate workers’ mobilisations, the local Delhi government has once again set its police forces onto demonstrating workers. This week, around 1,000 workers from different sectors and unions went to the offices of the Labour Minister to demand an end to contract […]

The arrests and intimidation of the last few months against critics of the Thai military dictatorship shows no sign of slowing down. In recent news, at least 20 students and their families have been harassed by the military, detainees who say the military has tortured them were denied legal access, […]

The economic crisis is being felt more and more in Japan with workers facing increasing attacks on their job security and intensification of their work. In the middle of this month, there was a nationwide strike by postal workers to fight against cuts to services, overwork and better pay for […]