Workers at the Hanjin shipyard are not giving up their struggle against sub contracting and job security. They have received support from many other workers, both in Korea and internationally, and the solidarity shown by the Ssangyong Motor workers, who themselves had gone through a major dispute in 2009, was […]
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It is two years since the strike and occupation at Ssangyong Motor Company was defeated. Two of the workers leaders still remain in jail. The Korean Metal Workers Union is organising a campaign to pressure the Korean government to release both of these union leaders for the 15th of August. […]
Pilots at Qantas, an Australian airline, have begun industrial action to protect their wages and conditions. Qantas pilots want a new workplace agreement that guarantees that all pilots are paid at the same rate without sub-contracting or off-shoring arrangements. Qantas wants to increase its use of pilots from regional countries […]
Four Mexican workers in Manzanillo, Mexico are staging a hunger strike to protest against continued workplace abuse. On top of working 12 hour days, with no overtime pay, the four female workers have had to endure constant abuse and mistreatment from their bosses. Samsung is one of South Korea’s biggest […]
Saturday August 6 – Anniversary of Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombings In the union movement it has always been said that peace is union business and nowhere is more evident as we approach Hiroshima Day 2011. The risk of Japanese products being contaminated and being a risk to workers (sailors and […]
The cities of Homs and Hamah again saw general strikes on the 7th of July. Large demonstrations in other cities are also continuing. The popular movement is now organising neighbourhood defense committees to stop the repression from the military and pro-government militias. The Baath government headed by President Bashar al […]
The Malaysian government has tried many tacticts to prevent the Bersih rally for democratic rights organised for Saturday 9 July in Kuala Lumpur. There have been banning orders and many arrests, some for wearing yellow t-shirts advertising the rally. Some on very serious fabricated charges. Socialists have been disproportionally targeted. […]
A military court on 29 June handed down one year suspended sentences to five workers who had been sacked by the Egyptian oil company Petrojet. The sentencing marked the first enforcement of Law 34/2011, announced by the military in March, which criminalizes protests and strikes that hinder production in any […]
A three-year struggle by an ITF-affiliated union in India, backed by an ITF campaign, has secured a victory for trailer truck drivers at a port terminal in India; they all now have a collective bargaining agreement. The Transport and Dockworkers’ Union (TDWU) won collective bargaining agreements for workers in the […]
Dramatic developments take place in Korea at Hanjin Heavy Industries shipyard and Yuseong Piston Ring. Private security forces and riot police forced out protesters from the shipyard and the police issued arrest warrants for Yuseong Piston Ring union leaders who in sign of protest have started a hunger strike in […]