The giant Coles supermarket chain continues to pay many of its workers below the legal minimum wage. Coles workers are exploited under a terrible EBA, signed thanks to the efforts of the largest yellow union in Australia, the SDA. But the EBA is being contested, so possibly, thousands of workers will […]
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This week, Tiga Bayles, a long time advocate and activist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander industrial and civil rights died after a long illness. Tiga was central to the long running fight by Aboriginal workers in the state of Queensland to recover their stolen wages. The Queensland Council of […]
This month, hundreds of workers employed at the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) to read household meters went on strike demanding that they be made permanent employees, see video. The issue of precarious employment has been fought against by these workers for a number of years. This week, after a strike […]
There are over 7,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, many either locked up in ‘administrative detention’ without trial, or convicted for protesting against the Israeli occupation. The 17th of April is known as the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners. Solidarity actions were held throughout the world as […]
Early next month, labour activists internationally are going to co-ordinate an advocacy campaign against the global company Pepsi-Co over its indifference to labour right violations in oil palm plantations. Pepsi-Co is a massive buyer of palm oil for its snack food products and beverages. The exploitation of workers in the […]
While much of the focus in Iraq is on the civil war, workers and their communities in areas not affected directly by the war continue to suffer under a corrupt and dysfunctional political system. The mass protests that started last year have continued into 2016, causing the country’s political system […]
On 24 April 2013 the eight-story Rana Plaza building in Dhaka Bangladesh collapsed. The owners of a number of garment factories in the building had ignored the most basic safety regulations, and forced workers to keep working when it was clear the walls were cracking. The confirmed death toll was […]
Syrian people who survived years of brutal civil war, finally escaping into Turkey, who then crossed the sea to Greece in rubber dinghies, are now stuck in freezing unhealthy camps on the border between Greece and Macedonia. The EU has just resolved to begin deporting them back to Turkey. Macedonia […]
Five miners were killed and eight were injured in an explosion at a Sheraz Coal Company mine on 2 April, in the north western province of Khyber Paktunkhwa, Pakistan. In 2016 already 17 miners had been killed in mines in this region. Coal mines had been closed, but mine owners […]
Against a brutal occupations, and in defiance fo the Israeli apartheid laws, Palestinians again marked Land Day, in many commemorations events that were sometimes repressed. Unfortunately the issue that began Land Day, land confiscation, has not decreased in importance, as the current Israeli government illegally confiscates land, farms and houses […]