The last few weeks have been murderous for workers employed at the shipbreaking yards in the region of Chittagong, Bangladesh. According to reports, in a series of incidents, five workers were killed while five others were seriously injured. What these latest tragedies show is that safe workplaces remain a distant […]
Daily Archives: July 3, 2016
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In the last week of June, three women unionists, as well as a number of other activists, were arrested for anti-government activities. The Textile Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation of Thailand has called for all the charges to be dropped. Under Thai’s military dictatorship, people arrested under the various ‘Law […]
Han Sang gun, the president of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) has received worldwide support for defending workers’ rights in South Korea. The South Korean government is trying to crush the workers’ movement by jailing Han, and a number of other labour activists, for many years. This is […]
This coming week, the sacked workers at the Carlton & United Brewery (CUB) in Melbourne, are stepping up their fight against out-sourcing. They have been on a community protest since the company tried to restructure their jobs from permanent to temporary, with a massive pay cut. This coming Monday 4 […]
Another indiscriminate bombing in Istanbul has claimed many lives, this time at Ataturk airport. On 28 June, 41 people were killed and over 200 injured. Many of these were workers at the airport. Over the last 12 months, almost 300 people have been killed in bomb attacks in Turkey. Unions […]
The first week of July in Australia is National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance week (NAIDOC). Its origins stem from the 1920′s when Aboriginal groups started to campaign to increase awareness in the wider community of the status and treatment of Indigenous Australians. NAIDOC week is an opportunity to continue […]
Workers all around the world organise to increase their wages, fight for secure employment contracts, and achieve safe and healthy workplaces. They are opposed by companies who want workers to work harder, for longer, and for less so profits can be higher. Governments help companies by passing laws that criminalise […]
Earlier in June, Japanese union members held a demonstration outside the Central Minimum Wage Council to demand a substantial minimum wage rise. Workers are demanding that the minimum wage be increased by at least 25%. In an unrelated dispute, Filipino workers at a Toshiba plant in Tokyo’s Fuchu City who […]