This week, thousands of members of the Korean Metal Workers Union took to the streets against proposed amendments to the Labour Act and for secure jobs. They also staged a solidarity rally in support of two of their comrades, Jeon Yeong-soo and Lee Seong-ho, who are now into their second […]
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Jenny Marcos was a leading activist for the Peninsula Employees Union, the union representing workers at the luxury Manila Peninsula Hotel, when in January of this year she was sacked and two of her colleagues suspended. Their ‘crime’ was to negotiate for better working conditions, like the use of a […]
Last Monday 15 May, Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Lands commemorated the 69th anniversary of Al Nakba – the ‘catastrophe’. This day marks the founding of Israel through the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their lands. As with many other years, Palestinians marking this event were fired upon by […]
It took almost a week for rescue workers to pull out all the bodies of the miners that were killed by an explosion at the coal mine in Golestan Province in early May. The final death toll now stands at 43, with many others injured. The President of Iran, Hassan […]
In the first ten days of May, two workers were killed in separate incidents in the huge shipbreaking beaches of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Ishaq was killed when a steel wire smashed into his face while the second worker, Shahinoor, was killed after falling off the ship he was working on. As […]
Around 90 manufacturing workers at Fletcher Insulation, in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, have been on strike since the 17 February. After 96 days, the workers won their fight and returned to work. The issues were around a proposed new enterprise agreement where the company wanted to increase hours […]
Around 300 women workers employed at SLAM Clothing organised a successful strike. The factory is located in Mahindra City, Chennai which operates as a Special Economic Zone. The workers walked off the job to demand wage arrears from 2014, annual increments and their social security benefits. This victory is doubly […]
Tuesday 23 May was the Global Day of Action calling for the release of Baba Jan, a well-known human rights and community activist in Pakistan. Baba Jan was arrested in 2012 for the ‘crime’ of leading a demonstration against killings by the police. Baba Jan was charged under terrorism laws […]
In mid April, at Australia’s refugee detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea defence personnel attacked the centre and shot at the refugees, wounding one. Australia’s Immigration Minister Peter Dutton not only downplayed the incident but intimated that the refugees had assaulted a local child. Dutton’s version was not […]
More than ten thousand mine workers at the huge Freeport-McMoRan copper and gold mine in West Papua, have gone on strike. The dispute centres on job security amid ongoing concerns about job losses. In response to the strike, the company has sacked 178 workers with the announcement that another 120 […]