This week, after a hard fought six month campaign that spanned the globe, 55 maintenance workers in Melbourne, Australia, won their dispute against the CUB brewery, part of the global empire of the AB InBev company. The company had tried to destroy the union by sacking these workers and wanting […]
Daily Archives: December 14, 2016
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Last Sunday, hundreds of Tehran bus drivers evaded police check points to rally in front of Tehran City Hall to demand better social services. Police and security forces attacked this protest severely injuring a number of workers and arresting a number of others. Heroically, the workers kept up their protests […]
Following the death of King Bhumibol, his son Maha Vajiralongkorn has become the new King of Thailand. Amid an atmosphere of social repression and military dictatorship, the new era has not seen any change. Jatuphat Boonpattaraksa was arrested and accused of Lese Majeste the day after the coronation for a […]
The Australian Federal Court this week awarded AUD $220,000 in damages to the Aboriginal community of Palm Island in Queensland, Australia, for being subjected to racial discrimination. The judgement was against both the Government of Queensland and its police force in relation to the police actions in 2004 on Palm […]
A new report detailing how Burma’s political and economic integration with the global capitalist system is leading to a huge expansion in its garment sector. There are at least 350 garment factories in Burma and like the other major garment centres of the world such as Cambodia and Bangladesh, conditions […]
At the end of November, the Australian Senate passed a new amended version of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC). The ABCC is an anti union law that is directly aimed at one of the most powerful unions in Australia, the CFMEU and its officials. The ABCC restricts the […]
Faremo International was a garment factory in the Philippines Cavite Export Processing Zone near Manila. It announced that it was closing and relocating to lower wage countries though orders were still coming in. The decision by the company was part of an ongoing offensive against its nearly 1,000 strong workforce […]
The economy of the central Asia republic of Uzbekistan relies heavily on cotton with hundreds of thousands of workers coerced into the annual harvest. While international campaigns have led to a decrease in the number of children being gang pressed for the harvest, the numbers have been taken up by […]