While this week, the US president has declared an end to the USA’s ‘combat mission’ in Iraq, the situation is far from resolved for Iraqi workers. While under Saddam Hussein, trade unions were strictly controlled by the regime, his removal did not signal an end to repression. Workers in Iraq […]
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Asia Pacific Currents 28.08.2010 Labour news from Turkey, India, Cambodia and Indonesia. Interview with Gwynnyth Evans from Meatworkers Union on women workers meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia. File Download (29:06 min / 13 MB) Asia Pacific Currents 21.08.2010 Labour news from Iran, Bangladesh, China, sth Korea, and asbestos in Asia. Interview […]
The last two years have been a time of crisis for capitalism. This has had a devastating impact on workers with millions made unemployed. Social services have been reduced and wages have been cut. Workers should not pay for their crisis. The World Federation of Trade Unions has called for […]
Workers at the Viva Global factory in Gurgaon, Haryana state, suppliers to Mark & Spencer, have been campaigning for months for an improvement to their working conditions. On the 25th of August many of them were severely beaten by hired thugs. One of their leaders, Mr Ansari, was kidnapped. He […]
Australia’s inhumane treatment of asylum seekers has come into the spotlight again with fires, demonstrations and a break out at the Darwin detention centre. While in the beginning of its term, the new Labour Government had relaxed some of its ‘border protection’ laws, it progressively made them harsher. The latest […]
After workers at STALCO Company formed a union, the company terminated 12 Office Bearers of the union and locked workers out of the factory. On the 18th of August, the All Pakistan Trade Union Federation held a protest demonstrating against the office bearers’ terminations, and for the rights of workers […]
An unprecedented industrial campaign by workers in the garment industry that saw the monthly minimum wage increased from US$25 to US$43 is continuing. Millions of workers are still on strike demanding the minimum wage be increased to US$73 a month, as well as improvements in a series of other conditions. […]
Following a court appeal, Mr. Han Sang-kyun, the former Chairman of the Ssangyong Motor Company Union (KMWU), has had his prison sentence reduced from 4 years to 3 years. In the same court case, 21 other trade unionists were freed but with severe restrictions on future union activities. Mr Kwon […]
This week, 29 construction workers, all union members or organisers, were dismissed by the KC Gecin Company. The workers have been fired for either attending a trade union training or for forming a union and requesting a meeting to negotiate issues. There is an international solidarity campaign for their re-instatement […]
Months after the May bloody crackdown on protesters, the Thai government is still using emergency laws to stifle dissent and round up protesters. The use of the Lese Majeste law has prevented discussion on the role of the Monarchy in the crackdown. Many Red Shirt activists have been detained using […]