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AAWL Public Meeting Wednesday 1 September 2010 6:30 – 8:00 Trades Hall, Lygon Street, Carlton Building International Solidarity Speakers from: Latin American Forum Conference (9/10 Oct) Lasnet Latin American Asia Pacific Conference (15/18 Oct) Socialist Alliance Climate Change Social Change (5/7 Nov) AAWL: Building the Global Labour Movement Charter

An international campaign by Education International has been initiated to defend 183 sacked teachers in sth Korea. The 183 members of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers Union were dismissed for allegedly breaching the law that states that public servants must be politically neutral. The teachers had privately donated to […]

Four maintenance workers have died in Colombia’s  largest coal mine this month. They were members of the ICEM affiliated trade union which represent 3,500 workers.    Previous ICEM organising efforts have encountered harrassment and persecutuion by contractors, yet this latest  fatality of 4 workers highlights the need for free trade unions in order […]

Workers at Bonro company, a supplier to Mercedes vehicles, have been on strike since the 14th of August demanding payment of back wages. Meanwhile, a court has imposed another year of jail to imprisoned trade unionist Mansour Osanloo. Noted author, Mehdi Aslani will give a talk on the 28th of […]

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Workers at PT Jaya Readymix, a subsidiary of Australian company Boral, located in the greater region of Jakarta, have taken industrial action following the company’s refusal to implement labor rights in accordance with the prevailing laws and regulations. In particular, workers are unhappy that the minimum wage is not being […]

Click here for your latest Asian Workers Organising newsletter – July 2010 Spotlight on the Philippines and on the South Korean workers’ movement Read the report on the 2010 KMU International Solidarity Affair here

Asia Pacific Currents 03.07.2010 Labour updates from Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India and South Korea. Interview with Marisol Salinas on the major indigenous, and non indigenous, conference in Alice Springs around worker and indigenous rights. File Download (30:41 min / 14 MB) Asia Pacific Currents 10.07.2010 Labour news from French Polynesia, […]

After more than a year of actions, workers at a Coca Cola bottling plant in Multan have won. All dismissed workers have been reinstated, union members will not be victimised and the workers union will be recognised by the company as the workers’ representative. Meanwhile, the power loom workers in […]

A strike by over a thousand workers at RD Tuna Fishing Ltd in Madang province is continuining amid harassment of workers by management. The original industrial dispute was over the non payment of the minimum wage, K2.29/h or AUS$1.20/h, but now management has dismissed over 250 workers. For more information, […]