In a struggle that spanned 13 years, hundreds of workers won back their collective agreement and restored collective bargaining rights. The dispute began in 2004 when the owner, Shangri-La Hotels, closed its Rasa Sayang Resort in Penang for renovations for almost two years. Once the new hotel opened, the employers […]
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Four railway workers in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi have been detained under that country’s harsh anti terrorism laws for taking part in a strike on July 23. The drivers have been accused of trying to organise other workers in a locomotive shed to take part in the strike. Unfortunately […]
In the last year alone, over 500 garment workers, mainly women, from just four factories were hospitalised due to faintings and collapses at work. While individual reasons vary, the underlying causes are the brutal and punishing working conditions these workers face. On top of unsafe working conditions, most are employed […]
At the end of July, tens of thousands of workers of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation went on an indefinite strike over plans to privatise part of their sector. The Sri Lankan government responded by mobilising the army to take over operations and prevent workers from organising and demonstrating. With the […]
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The Thai military junta’s reign of oppression has now spread into neighbouring Laos with the apparent forced abduction of Wutthipong ‘Ko Tee’ Kochathmmakun. Ko Tee was abducted by a group of armed Thai speaking people. Ko Tee had been a fierce critic of the Thai Monarchy and the military for […]
Thousands of Anganwadi workers, mainly women employed as sexual health, nutrition and child development workers, marched through the streets of New Delhi last Friday in a continuation of their ongoing strike. The workers have been demanding better pay, conditions and an end to insecure working conditions. The strike has now […]
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The occupational health and safety labour activists of SHARPS had another win in court recently when a judge upheld an earlier decision confirming that a Samsung Electronics worker’s disease was caused by her work. The case centred on Kim Mi-seon, a former worker who assembled LCDs and who developed Multiple […]
Tens of thousands of nurses at private hospitals across the southern Indian state of Kerala ended their two month strike after the government agreed to more than double their wages from less than Rs 10,000 to Rs 20,000 (USA $310) per month. This is a great achievement by these workers […]