Yearly Archives: 2016

The number of Palestinians in Israeli jails topped 6,000 people at the end of January 2016, with at least 10% of them in ‘administrative detention’. There are constant hunger strikes by prisoner fighting for better conditions or their freedom. These increasing arrests have to be seen in light of the […]

Another worker has suffered acute methanol poisoning at a Samsung factory in the last month. The young worker had to be hospitalised and later fell into a coma. This case is only the latest of a spate of serious injuries that workers have suffered at Samsung where reports indicate they […]

Australian unions are advocating for a new law that would automatically give workers a permanent contract after six months of casual employment with the same employer. The use of casualisation is one of the methods used by employers all over the world to undermine workers’ conditions and union organising. In […]

Almost 600 former workers of Hindustan Unilever who were employed at its thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, have finally won their fight to receive compensation for their injuries and illnesses. One of the main components of thermometers is mercury, a highly toxic substance for humans. Unilever for decades dumped […]

Syrians have seized on the partial cease-fire, particularly the bombing of civilian areas, and have come out in the streets in demonstrations and protest actions. Hundreds of such actions were recorded over a space of a few days. Almost all of these protests were by civilians who took up once […]

Over 4,000 workers are employed at the Honda car plant in Tapukera, Rajasthan. Most are employed as contract workers, receive low wages and face harsh working conditions. For this reason, workers have repeatedly tried to form their own union. In Their latest attempt was repressed by the police in February […]

Mahmoud Langroodi, Mohammad Reza Niknejad and Mehdi Bohlooli, all members of the Iranian Teachers' Trade Association were sentenced this week by the Islamic Revolutionary court in Tehran to five years in jail. One of them, Mahmoud Langroodi, was already in jail serving a nine year prison sentence, which was also […]

In a long running dispute that started in July 2012 when around 2,000 women garment workers went on strike over wage issues, hundreds are still fighting for justice. Of the 1,300 workers that were fired following that strike, almost 350 of the workers are still fighting for jobs and compensation. […]

The Cambodian government is in the final stages of drafting a new trade union law that will severely weaken workers’ ability to organise. In particular, the law excludes some workers from joining unions, limits the right to strike, limits the ability of unions to operate legally, and has minimal penalties […]

In the huge metropolis of Chongqing in south west China, workers have increasingly been taking action to protest against wage arrears, low pay and working conditions. A new factor in workers’ grievances has been the increasing widening gap between their pay and the salaries of their managers. In addition, the […]