Following from the recent decision to cut penalty rates for some of Australia’s lowest paid workers, a number of unions have called for a major rally in Melbourne for this coming Thursday. Unions in the construction industry are spearheading this fightback as they have been specifically targeted by anti union […]
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The new year began with a slowdown in the rate of murders from Philippines President Duterte’s vicious War on Drugs. This pause seems to have ended with President Duterte recalling his police force into the front line of the War on Drugs. The number of people killed has now reached […]
The economic and political crisis that saw repeated general strikes and demonstrations of over a million people against President Park from late 2015 onwards has continued into this year. The last two weekends have seen more huge mobilisations of up to a million people against the President and her supporters, […]
Sri Lankan tea plantation workers receive some of the lowest wages of any workers in the world, for hard labour in hazardous conditions. Last week workers at the Hairpark Estate in Hunnasgiriya began a protest against their estate being deliberately run down by the government owned Sri Lanka State Plantation […]
The garment sector in Bangladesh is characterised by low wages and terrible working conditions where labour activism is routinely suppressed. In the first couple of months of this year, a new wave of repression saw over 30 garment labour activists either arrested or detained and over a 1,000 workers dismissed. […]
The industrial actions and strikes that began last year in the telecommunication sector in Sri Lanka are continuing despite grave attempts by government forces to intimidate and undermine the workers will. The issues are ones that are familiar to workers all around the world, namely the use of contract labour, […]
In an incident that has recently been publicised, in early January, thousands of construction workers building a large Samsung's production factory in Vietnam's northern Thai Nguyen province clashed with security guards and police. These clashes resulted in 13 people been injured, with four critically. The clash was sparked by a […]
The lockout of 65 workers in the regional Victorian town of Echuca by the global dairy company Parmalat is now in its 7th week. The dispute is around a new contract and the company’s intentions to cut wages and conditions. Attacks like this on workers in Australia are becoming more […]
In commemoration of 100 years since the Russian Revolution that was sparked by International Women’s Day, for this year’s IWD Rally in Melbourne Australia, we’re raising the demand Peace, Bread and Land! Additionally, Victoria Trades Hall is organising its annual Women’s Rights At Work Festival. For details of WRAW Fest, […]
Once again Iranian labour activists are facing the repressive actions of the Iranian government as it tries to contain workers’ anger. This month, an appeal for a retrial of Esmail Abdi, a prominent teacher activist, was dismissed by the Supreme Court. Esmail is serving a 6 year sentence for organising […]