Around 300 women workers employed at SLAM Clothing organised a successful strike. The factory is located in Mahindra City, Chennai which operates as a Special Economic Zone. The workers walked off the job to demand wage arrears from 2014, annual increments and their social security benefits. This victory is doubly […]
Monthly Archives: May 2017
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Tuesday 23 May was the Global Day of Action calling for the release of Baba Jan, a well-known human rights and community activist in Pakistan. Baba Jan was arrested in 2012 for the ‘crime’ of leading a demonstration against killings by the police. Baba Jan was charged under terrorism laws […]
In mid April, at Australia’s refugee detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea defence personnel attacked the centre and shot at the refugees, wounding one. Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton not only downplayed the incident but intimated that the refugees had assaulted a local child. Dutton’s version was not […]
More than ten thousand mine workers at the huge Freeport-McMoRan copper and gold mine in West Papua, have gone on strike. The dispute centres on job security amid ongoing concerns about job losses. In response to the strike, the company has sacked 178 workers with the announcement that another 120 […]
The hunger strike by at least 1,500 Palestinian prisoners is now entering its 5th week. Amid complete isolation and continued harassment by Israeli authorities, the prisoners are holding firm in their fight for their rights. Solidarity actions in support of the hunger strike have continued throughout the world and in […]
The military junta in Thailand is finding that opposition to its rule is continuing to spread as its autocratic measures increase. This week, news surfaced that seven more people have been charged with Lese Majeste for a wide variety of alleged crimes. Not content with applying the Computer Crimes Act […]
The third anniversary of the Soma mine disaster that killed 301 workers, was particularly sombre this year as it coincided with Mothers’ Day. The authorities banned a planned rally and commemoration by support organisations and deemed that only a commemoration at the cemetery was appropriate. While some compensation has been […]
The leader of the local trade union for the Coca Cola bottling company Amatil in Bawan, central Java, was recently dismissed in a blatant anti-union move. This followed the workers’ successful campaign, which began in late 2016, to unionise and register their own union. This case was very similar to […]
Unknown gunmen kidnapped seven anti-corruption activists, last week, in the middle of the night in central Baghdad. While kidnappings have now become common in Iraq, these were particularly targeted. All the men were involved in organising the anti-corruption demonstrations that have regularly taken place in Baghdad since mid-2015. Participants at […]
The election of Moon Jae-in as the new President of South Korea has brought new hope to Korean workers after the hard battles they fought in the last few years. In one of his pronouncements, Pres. Moon stated that he will make secure jobs one of his goals by ‘ushering in an […]