AAWL sends solidarity and our full support to the Hong Kong Dock Workers on strike over health and safety issues, pay and working conditions, and against sub-contracting. Comrades, your struggles resonates with workers all around the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
With Workers Memorial Day coming up on 28 April, your actions demonstrate why it is workers themselves who are the best defenders of safe working conditions. We know it is workers' action that makes our workplaces safer, not employers or politicians. May Day is also approaching and your struggle demonstrates how workers are fighting internationally for the same conditions, and often against the same companies.
Maritime transport and logistics is a good example of a global industry dominated by global companies. Working conditions at one port affect workers at other ports, with shipping rates and container turn around times benchmarked internationally. To win, we need to connect our disputes in coordinated industrial actions and solidarity actions against the global companies.
Solidarity actions are now needed against the main Hong Kong Port companies of HIT, Hutchinson and Cosco in the different countries where they operate. We also need solidarity actions at regional ports like Shenzen, Singapore and Shanghai, where Hong Kong cargo is being redirected. A win in Hong Kong is a win for all workers.
AAWL sends solidarity and our full support to the Hong Kong Dock Workers on strike over health and safety issues, pay and working conditions, and against sub-contracting. Comrades, your struggles resonates with workers all around the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
With Workers Memorial Day coming up on 28 April, your actions demonstrate why it is workers themselves who are the best defenders of safe working conditions. We know it is workers' action that makes our workplaces safer, not employers or politicians. May Day is also approaching and your struggle demonstrates how workers are fighting internationally for the same conditions, and often against the same companies.
Maritime transport and logistics is a good example of a global industry dominated by global companies. Working conditions at one port affect workers at other ports, with shipping rates and container turn around times benchmarked internationally. To win, we need to connect our disputes in coordinated industrial actions and solidarity actions against the global companies.
Solidarity actions are now needed against the main Hong Kong Port companies of HIT, Hutchinson and Cosco in the different countries where they operate. We also need solidarity actions at regional ports like Shenzen, Singapore and Shanghai, where Hong Kong cargo is being redirected. A win in Hong Kong is a win for all workers.
