After an 18-month campaign, Ark Tribe has been found not guilty of charges filed against him by the anti-union building industry watchdog, the ABCC. Ark faced a possible prison sentence for allegedly failing to comply with the commission, who used their extraordinary powers to ask him to a secret interrogation. […]
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While attending a health skills training seminar on 6th February 2010, 43 health workers in the Philippines were abducted by 300 fully armed members of the Philippine army and police department. Nine months later, and with no formal charges against them, they are still imprisoned. The health workers are now […]
International Human Rights Day Rally Melbourne Friday 10 December at 4:30 pm State Library, Swanston Street Melbourne Winning our Rights Union & Community Summer School 2010 Melbourne Friday 10 & Saturday 11 December Trades Hall, Lygon Street Carlton Click here to download program and registration leaflet Registration: $25 / $15 […]
After 15 years of struggle, Somboon Sikhamdokkae and 37 fellow workers were awarded compensation for the respiratory disease byssinosis they contracted through inhaling cotton dust while working at the Bangkok Weaving Factory. Somboon is Coordinator of the Work and Environment Related Patient’s Network of Thailand (WEPT), which has continued […]
The Engineering, Printing & Manufacturing Union (EPMU) has said it will assemble its own team of legal and technical experts to investigate the Pike river mine tragedy, which killed 29 miners on November 24, and is calling on the NZ Government to establish an independent Inquiry. The union has […]
Palestinian workers in Sol Or’s Gas factory are on strike in an attempt to enforce their legal OH&S rights and to receive the legal minimum wage. Three workers have died from cancer after working at the factory for 10 years and another 3 have died from gas explosions. Although it […]
A new Australian asbestos website bringing together health experts, journalists and historians was launched last week for Asbestos awareness week. The website tells the history of asbestos mining and manufacture in Australia and provides asbestos safety information. Results from a survey of Victorian Trades Hall Council (VTHC) OHS Reps conference […]
Over one hundred organisations, including trade unions, adopted a manifesto to end the sandblasting of jeans at the ‘Clean Clothes’ international forum in November. Jeans sandblasting causes silicosis, and 46 former sandblasting workers in Turkey alone have contracted an acute form of silicosis, prompting the Turkish government to ban the […]
Asia Pacific Currents 6/11/10 Asia Pacific news, current affairs and labour rights from the region. Interview with AK Padmanavan, President of regional chapter of the Centre of India Trade Unions on the latest industrial disputes in Tamil Nadu – India. File Download (28:25 min / 26 MB) Asia Pacific Currents […]
The Northern Territory intervention is being met with increasing resistance. Enacted by the previous Conservative Federal Government and maintained by the current Labor Government, the intervention was supposedly enacted to "resolve" Indigenous Australians’ social issues. The reality is that these policies are further dispossessing indigenous communities through the use of […]