Solidarity with Indigenous people with their fight for justice, equality and land rights. Aboriginal Struggles are Union Business. And look here. Celebrate 222 years of resistance at the Survival Day concert January 26, 2pm to 8pm, Treasury Gardens, Melbourne. On Tuesday 26 January at 11am join Gilla McGuinness live on […]
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On December 20, 2009 Toyota Motor Philipines Corporation Workers Association held an end year activity for the families and members of TMPCWA. It is the ninth year celebration of Christmas specially for the illegally dismissed members and their families. In the program is the one year activity report of TMPCWA: […]
A longstanding and bitter struggle at the Turkish port of Mersin paid off after unionists won a ground-breaking agreement, giving members bargaining rights for the first time. Port drivers, represented by the ITF-affiliated transport union Türkiye Motorlu Tasit Isçileri Sendikasi (TUMTIS), signed an agreement on 21 December 2009, following a […]
A groundbreaking union report has found that Malaysian law severely restrict workers in their ability to organise at the workplace, and to bargain collectively. The report by the ITUC on core labour standards in Malaysia, published to coincide with the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of their trade policies, has […]
The militant Korean Confederation of Trade Unions has began the New Year by stating why they oppose, and will campaign against, the new Revised Law relating to Union Pluralism and the Status of Full-time Union Officials. Read the full statement here.
Gurgaon in Haryana is presented as the shining India, but behind the facade, behind the factory walls and in the side streets of the industrial areas thousands of workers keep the rat-race going, producing cars and scooters for the middle-classes. And the rat-race will not stop; on the outskirts of […]
Thai railway workers are still fighting for re-instatement after OH&S dispute last year led to six union delegates being sacked: The International Transport Workers’ Federation this week called on the Thai government to reinstate the six railway workers. The ITF has welcomed the findings of an industrial relations body in […]
Amid continuing attacks on their rights, Iranian workers at the Isfahan Steel Company have formed a ‘Council of the Isfahan Steel Workers’ to better unify the workers’ ranks and defend their rights: "The Isfahan Steel Company (ISC) has been one of the largest industrial enterprises in all Iran. Nevertheless, despite […]
More than 2,000 employees of a Taiwan enterprise in the Eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu went out into the streets last Friday to protest against poor working conditions and low pay. The riot police intervened in the dispute. The dispute arose because workers have long been dissatisfied with the management, […]
Nearly one thousand tea workers and their families continue to suffer collective punishment at the hands of India’s Tata Group. Workers at the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India went without pay, food and rations from September 14 until December 12 last year following a protest in August […]