Welcome to the first edition for 2010 of AAWL’s labour news, an e-newsletter that brings you updates and events about the labour movement in the Asia Pacific region. Comments and feedback are welcome. Workers change the world.
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March 8 is International Women’s Day (IWD). IWD originated in the USA in 1908, when women garment workers held demonstrations protesting against their appalling and dangerous working conditions. Women’s struggles is union business. AAWL, in solidarity with workers internationally, will celebrate IWD on the 8th of March in Melbourne, Australia. […]
May 1st is international labour day. AAWL will join workers all around the world on the 1st of May to celebrate May Day in Melbourne, Australia. AAWL would like to write a joint May Day message together with comrades around the world, suitable for reading at workers’ rallies and meetings […]
Ending 345 days of hard negotiations over the Yongsan fire that claimed six lives, 5 demonstrators and one police, during an eviction from a redevelopment site, the developer and victims reached an agreement in late December 2009. It is estimated that 3.5 billion won ($3 million) was offered to the […]
Jafar Ebrahimi, the teacher trade unionist that was held in jail simply for trying to organise a union meeting, was freed on bail in December. However, Education International remains concerned about the continued detention of Farzad Kamangar, Rasoul Bodaghi and Hashem Khastar. EI addressed a letter to the Supreme Leader […]
Members of the Maritime Workers Union who have been shifting asbestos from Barrow Island for the Gorgon gas project are refusing to return to work until their safety is guaranteed. Workers were exposed to asbestos fibres from pellets dug up and transported from Barrow Island. Asbestos was used in pipes […]
In a major win in the closing weeks of 2009, unions representing more than 1,200 workers at Nestlé India’s factories in Moga, Ponda and Bicholim signed collective bargaining agreements on wages and benefits for the first time – marking a major achievement in their year-long struggle for the right to […]
Some 10,000 workers of the former state-run tobacco monopoly, their family members and supporters are currently demonstrating in Ankara in protest against a snap government decision to close their workplaces at the end of January 2010. They demand fair treatment in accordance with the law, which means the transfer to […]
Clerical workers at The Age have taken protected industrial action outside the new headquarters in Collins St, Melbourne, after newspaper management allowed negotiations to break down. Workers are taking action after the newspaper’s management refused to budge on a 2.25% wage offer, and insisted on a flexibility clause that would […]
The National Garment Workers Federation organized a rally of garment workers named "Garment Workers Human Rights Protection Rally" in the capital city Dhaka. Several hundred garment workers participated in this with red flags. It was led by the president and general secretary of the NGWF, Amirul Haque Amin and Miss […]