Yearly Archives: 2016

A new investigative report into the working conditions for workers employed by the global fashion company H&M has highlighted a number of labour rights violations. All the workers were not employed by H&M directly but were working for sub-contracting firms. In addition to low wages that often forced workers to […]

Over one hundred security workers in East Timor are battling Gardamor over their entitlements after being summarily dismissed. Gardamor is a security company run by an ex guerrilla fighter. Workers in East Timor have had lots of difficulty securing good working conditions and rights in the workplace, since independence. The […]

Death Squads in the Philippines have predictably started assassinating worker organisers. Orlando Abangan “Ka Lando” was shot dead on his way home in Talisay, Cebu in the Philippines on 17 September. Ka Lando was a well-known labour and human rights activist. Recently he had been a staunch critic of the […]

Aboriginal people in Australia continue to survive colonisation and the impact of the invasion is brutal and long lasting. In Melbourne last week, in an historic occasion, the first ever monument commemorating the death of Aboriginal freedom fighters was unveiled (see video of unveiling). In the meantime, in the northern […]

Somyot Prueksakasemsuk is one of Thailand’s best known political prisoners. Somyot is a journalist and a labour activist who has been in jail for over 5 years now, convicted under the draconian and repressive Lese Majeste law. Somyot’s birthday is 20 September. He will turn 55. The international campaign group […]

Workers in Korea are continuing to resist the economic and political offensive of the government. Following a major demonstration in July, subway and rail unions will commence an unlimited strike against the government’s policies and its repression of unions and its leaders on 27 September. Major lead up rallies indicate […]

While the historic general strike earlier this month was a massive show of force by Indian workers, there are also ongoing actions by workers. This week, workers from the Honda Motorcycle plant in Tapukara, Rajasthan began an indefinite hunger strike to protest against the company’s mass dismissals of workers. They […]

In an historic compensation deal, the survivors and the families of the 260 workers who were killed in a fire at the Ali Enterprise on 11 September 2012, are to receive compensation. The deal comes after four long years of campaigning by a number of labour organisations, both within Pakistan […]

In the months of August and September there have been a number of strikes by sanitation workers in China calling for wage increases and better working conditions. In a related issue, the long awaited trials of detained labour activists from the Panyu Workers Service Centre, a labour NGO in Guangdong […]

An explosion at a packaging factory at Tongi, in Gazipur, Bangladesh, caused an uncontrolled fire that destroyed a 5 storey building. At the time of writing, at least 24 workers have been killed while more than 50 have been injured. This number may increase as the exact number of workers […]