Activists in India have raised outrage over the number of deaths in New Delhi’s sewer system. The Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act 2013 prohibits manual scavenging, yet in the last 100 days, 39 workers have died while cleaning sewers, and this is not a rare […]
Monthly Archives: July 2017
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Australia Asia Worker Links hosted the first International Committee Meeting of the Global Picketline. The meeting agreed to start supporting struggling workers in the car industry across the world. And there are many industrial struggles in the car industry. Workers at Kia motors and Hyundai, in South Korea, this week […]
In a very worrying development, the Philippines’ Congress on Saturday approved President’s Duterte request to extend martial law over the whole island of Mindanao till the end of 2017. Given the gross human rights violations already committed during President Duterte’s term so far, the extension of martial law will only lead to further militarisation […]
Around 70 organisations globally have lent their name to the campaign calling on all charges against three journalists, Thein Zaw, Aye Nai and Pyae Phone Aung, to be dropped. In addition, there are calls to free the three people who were with them at the time of their assignment in Shan state. […]
Thousands of sugar cane workers, and their families, employed at the big Haft Tapeh sugar cane plantation and mill complex in the southern city of Shush, Iran, are fighting the company and government in an effort to keep their entitlements. Workers are owed months of wages, pension benefits have been […]
About 208 workers from the Chung Fai Knitwear factory in Cambodia are still fighting for justice one year on from the sudden closure of their factory. On 1 July 2016, these workers, mostly women, were terminated without notice, without severance pay and without receiving their final salaries for the previous […]
The presidency of Rodrigo Duterte has been characterised by the murderous campaign against working class communities on the pretext of a ‘War on Drugs’, as well as the recent declaration of Martial Law in the southern island of Mindanao. A protest camp, Kam Pobrero, has been set up in the […]
AAWL is planning to launch a Global Picketline campaign to support the jailed Maruti Suzuki workers in India and KCTU President Han Sang-gyun who is in prison in Korea. The proposal includes the establishment of an International Committee to launch and coordinate Global Picketline campaigns in different industries. AAWL developed […]
This week saw massive mobilisations in Turkey, highlighting how the social situation is continuing to alternate between repression and resistance. The protest march led by opposition Parliamentary leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu culminated in a huge rally in Istanbul attended by an estimated one million people demanding justice and an end to […]
A group of Pricol workers in southern India have won a court case against their employer who was attempting to take away more than one week’s pay. The victory comes after a 16-day hunger strike that has now ended. The issue was around the Pricol workers’ one-day strike earlier in […]