Worker resistance and struggle has been mounting in Foxconn factories in India, China and Australia, with more workers speaking out and taking strike action. Some of the biggest IT brands, like Apple, Nokia and Hewlett Packard outsource production of their goods to Foxconn, which allows them to increase profits by […]
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After a strike that had lasted over five years, 10 sacked women workers, all members of the Korean Metal Workers Union, finally won their fight to become permanent workers. The workers were originally sacked by Kiryung Electronics as the company claimed they were not direct employees but sub contractors. The […]
Canada British Colombia Construction unions are putting pressure on the Quebec government to permanently close Jeffrey Asbestos Mine. “The Jeffrey Mine is solely based on exporting deadly asbestos to vulnerable developing countries that have not yet banned asbestos.” said Wayne Peppard, the executive director of the B.C./Yukon Territory Building Trades […]
Ship-breaking workers in the Gadani ship-breaking yard are demanding better working conditions, health and safety standards, proper equipment and better wages. In June 2010, approximately 15,000 ship-breakers went on strike in the town of Gadani, Balochistan province, and since then have taken various forms of industrial action. Gadani ship-breakers work […]
A recent decision by the Filipino Labour Secretary, Ms Rosalinda Dimapilis-Baldoz, will allow Philippine Airlines (PAL) to outsource its airport services, in-flight catering and call centre reservations. It will also mean the laying off of more than half of its workforce, possibly up to 3,000 workers. PAL is owned by […]
Asia Pacific Currents 30.10.10 Asia Pacific news, current affairs and labour rights from the region. Interview with Diana Beaumont on the state of labour rights in China. File Download (29:01 min / 27 MB) Asia Pacific Currents 23.10.10 Asia Pacific news, current affairs and labour rights stories from India, Bangladesh, […]
The class conflict in Tamil Nadu, India, has sharpened recently with the mass dismissals of workers at the Foxconn factory in October, now followed by an even greater number of workers dismissed from BYD Electronics, a Nokia supplier. On the first of November, BYD Electonics terminated the services of 2,500 […]
Rally and March 2pm, Sunday, 7 November 2010 State Library, corner Swanston and Latrobe Streets, Melbourne The Refugee Advocacy Network, the coalition that organised the World Refugee Day march in Melbourne on 20 June, has called another mass rally and march for Sunday, 7 November. The focus of the rally […]
Two hundred workers at the KEC electronics factory in Gumi have resorted to occupying the factory in order to force the company to negotiate with them. The industrial dispute started over four months ago in June. In the last week, management agreed to meet the workers, but used the meeting […]
It has taken more than three years for the Philippines military’s frame up of Vincent ‘Ka Bebot’ Borja, KMU National Council member representing Eastern Visayas, to finally collapse. Ka Bebot was arrested on the 7th of May, 2007, and charged with murder by the military. On the 13th of October […]