This week, the Korea Workers Compensation and Welfare Service (KCOMWEL) handed down an historic decision when it accepted that two workers had died from a pulmonary condition due occupational exposure. The KCOMWEL agreed that payments should be provided to the families of Lee Gyeong-hui and Song Yu-gyeong, for their death […]
Monthly Archives: September 2016
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Just over two months ago, around 650 workers at Frito Lay, a company owned by PepsiCo in Lahore, were able to win recognition of their union as their representative for collective bargaining negotiations. This was a fantastic victory in light of Pepsi-Co’s fight against workers unionising in their plants in […]
For the annual tradition of pardoning some prisoners on the birthday of the King of Thailand, Pornthip Munkong, and Daranee Charncherngsilpakul, aka ‘Da Torpedo’, were both released from prison this August. The significance of this release is that both had been imprisoned for the ‘crime’ of Lese Majeste. While these […]
180 million Indian workers participated in a General Strike on Friday 2 September2016. Workers raised demands of increases to the minimum wage, an end to privatisation and an end to trade union repression. This marked the biggest industrial strike in the world, and is the most recent in a line […]
The Victorian Trades Hall Council has called a Rally in support of the 55 sacked maintenance workers at Carlton and United Breweries (CUB). Unions knew that SABMiller & AB InBev, the parent company of CUB, was intending to attack workers wages and conditions globally. In June a conference of the […]
Labour activists in Guangdong are being detained without trial following major crackdowns in December 2015. One of these activists is Zeng Feiyang, director of the Panyu Workers Service Centre, who has been detained for about nine months now. The Panyu Centre has come under government scrutiny because its effectiveness in […]
Cambodia’s government is engaged in a serious anti-union offensive and earlier this year introduced the infamous New Labour Law. Negotiations have commenced for a national minimum wage in the garment sector, which in 2014 saw the arrest of 23 workers and the death of four people. This time around, the […]
Further investigations have brought to light the treachery of Australia’s biggest yellow union, the SDA. In these reports, new evidence shows that countless companies in the retail industry have been significantly underpaying their workers, adding to the revelations exposed in the Coles dispute. In another blow to the SDA, they […]