Workers from Ankur Udyog who were already in dispute for pay and conditions were shot by company security guards on 3 May when they returned to their factory after a May Day march in Delhi. However this violent action did not stop the workers, who intensified their campaign, and solidarity […]
Daily Archives: May 27, 2011
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On May 24 more than 2,500 police entered the Yoosung Enterprise factory which hundreds of unionized workers had been occupying for the past week. The plant manufactures parts for Hyundai and other major car makers in Korea. About 500 unionists were detained. Police obtained arrest warrants for two union leaders […]
The Turkish government has filed criminal charges against 111 union leaders, members and supporters which carry prison terms of up to 5 years in connection with a 2010 demonstration in Ankara. The Ankara action was in support of 12,000 workers made redundant overnight following the privatization of the state tobacco […]
3CR is Melbourne’s community radio station and was established in 1976 to provide a voice for those denied access to the mass media, particularly the working class, women and Indigenous people. AAWL’s weekly radio program, Asia Pacific Currents, first went to air in the mid 1980s. We broadcast stories and […]