Hwang Yu-mi died on 5 March 2007 on the way to hospital from acute myelogenous leukaemia. She was the first publicly known victim of what later became known as the Samsung Electronics blood disorder cluster cases. Yu-mi was only 23 and had worked at Samsung for less than four years. Since […]
Monthly Archives: March 2017
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Over 1,300,000 central government workers throughout India staged a one day strike on the 16th of March, over the ongoing non-implementation of previous agreements, see photos of rallies and demonstrations. Specifically, workers are demanding that pay rises agreed by the 7th Pay Commission be implemented, that contracting of work be […]
International Women’s Day (IWD) was celebrated all around the world on 8 March. On the centenary of the Russian revolution of 1917 that was sparked by women workers taking action on IWD, many demonstrations highlighted how much more work is still needed to achieve gender equality whether in the workplace […]
The referendum to decide whether to grant the President of Turkey extra powers is still four weeks away, but the government is increasing the pressure on any opposition, including labour activists. The chairperson of Turkish Bureau Union, Fahrettin Yokuş, recently survived an assassination attempt from armed gunmen. A mob attacked the […]
This week, the Philippines Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) released new national policy guidelines on contracting and subcontracting. The new guidelines are supposed to limit the use by companies of contract and casual workers as a way to undermine workers’ solidarity and maintain lower rates of pay and lesser […]
On the back of the recent decision by the industrial tribunal to cut penalty rates for thousands of Australian workers, more reports are surfacing of the widespread nature of underpayment in Australia. Farms have been identified as using dodgy employment contracts to underpay workers, while a food chain like Domino Pizza […]
This week, a court in the Indian state of Haryana, acquitted over a hundred workers of any involvement in the death of a factory manager. Many of these workers had spent over 3 years in jail. The court found 13 workers guilty of murder. The conduct of this trail and […]
Last Friday, in a historical verdict, the Constitutional Court of South Korea unanimously upheld the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye. This verdict was a reflection on the huge mobilisations that have brought millions of working class Koreans to the streets week after week. The Korean union movement was deeply involved […]
Trevor Grant was one of Australia’s most respected sports journalists with a career spanning 40 years. From his work covering cricket in Sri Lanka, Trevor became a passionate supporter of the Tamils right to self determination, a fierce critic of successive Sri Lankan governments wars, and defender of the rights […]
Almost two years ago, 4,000 workers at the PT Jaba Garmindo were left unemployed when their factory closed down suddenly. These workers are still waiting for four months’ worth of unpaid wages as well as termination payments. In total workers are owed almost US$11 million in payments. There is an […]