Monthly Archives: April 2017

Last Sunday, workers participating in a weekly protest were baton charged and violently dispersed by police. These workers have been holding this regular protest as part of a long running dispute. In 2012, over 1,000 women workers were summarily dismissed by the Victory Chingluh Indonesia and Panarub Industry companies. These […]

The deputy chairperson of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Kazakhstan (CITUK) Nurbek Kushakbayev, was recently sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. Nurbek's crime is calling a strike at the Oil Construction Company. Due to the importance of the oil sector to the economy of the central Asian country of Kazakhstan, […]

Earlier this month around 1,000 workers at Apollo, a major tyre producing company operating in the industrial belt of the southern city of Chennai, went on strike for the right to form a union and to improve their wages and conditions. The local government quickly intervened to declare the auto […]

The announcement this week by the Thai military junta warning the population not to follow three social commentators on social media is a sign of the increasing determination by the generals to hold on to power. All three commentators are critics of the military dictatorship. In a worrying development, killings […]

Sunday 16 April is when the people of Turkey will vote on a national referendum on the constitution to grant the President more power. This referendum is being held in a tense climate with a state of emergency still in place. This has placed enormous pressure on the campaigners for […]

This week, the new USA administration of President Trump bombed a major Syrian airbase in retaliation to the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons against opposition areas. Given the past scale of atrocities over the last six years, President Trump moral justification for the bombing is only an excuse for […]

McCormick Corporation is a food flavouring company that has facilities in 26 countries and employs over 10,000 workers. In the last few weeks, its workforce at the Bentleigh plant in Melbourne, Australia has been taking industrial action in support of a new workplace agreement. The company wants to cut workers’ […]

Following last months’ jailing of 13 Maruti Suzuki workers for life sentences, workers in India and internationally have continued their campaign to free them and to assert the right to organise and form independent unions. April 4 & 5 were designated as days of action in support for the imprisoned […]

The situation for the majority of Palestinians continues to deteriorate as another anniversary of Land Day saw more arrests. To coincide with this day, the Israeli government approved new settlements in the Occupied West Bank and set aside funds to construct new ones. The Israeli government continues to use mass […]

The ongoing restructuring of work in Australia towards more contract, casual or short term jobs is generating a catastrophe for millions of workers. At the recent Formula One event in Melbourne, workers were sought for the ‘opportunity’ to work for no pay at all, while workers at Sydney airport have […]