Monthly Archives: May 2012

Qantas is the latest aviation company that is seeking to increase its profits by shifting its operations to countries that have weaker unions and cheaper wages. Outsourcing internationally allows companies to exploit the regions where workers are not as well organised. International trade union organising is the best way to […]

The IUF, the international union that represents food, farm and hotel workers, has launched a new phase in the campaign to get 53 workers reinstated at the Panjang Nestle factory in Indonesia. The 53 workers were members of the IUF-affiliated SBNIP, and were arbitrarily dismissed in October 2011 after the […]

A fact finding report on the Regency Ceramics Workers’ Struggle in Yanam has been released by the Trade Union Solidarity Committee in Mumbai India. On 28 January 2012, police charged a non-violent union demonstration of locked out Ceramic Workers in Yanam, Pondicherry, killing the Union Leader, M.S Murali Mohan and […]

Around 1,400 workers employed by the garment manufacturer PT SC Enterprises, located in Klaten, Central Java, have been in a bitter dispute in the last two months as they try to organise into a trade union. The Italian owned company has now sacked over 40 workers this month and has […]

In the last decade, some regions of India, like Gurgaon near New Delhi, have experienced a wave of massive industrialisation. This has created a whole new population of workers, many of whom have limited trade union experience. Following on from major industrial disputes, (which you can read about here and […]

Two years ago, Danh Vansothy and Khuth Channa, along with several other workers, were dismissed for taking a leading role in the organising of a trade union at the K-Cement factory in Kampot province, Cambodia. The workers at this factory have continued to press for the reinstatement of their comrades, […]

Every year the KMU Labor Centre in the Philippines organises an International Solidarity Affair, which is a solidarity visit with many activities, including a major march on May Day. Solidarity visits with workers in struggle is a major component of the International Solidarity Affair. This year the a coalition of […]

The Australian government has reached a new low in its already appalling record of neglect, abuse and illegal detention of refugees. A Sri Lankan refugee and her two children have been detained indefinitely, on secret "security" grounds. They had already been granted refugee status, but the Australian secret police agency […]

Over 4,000 coal miners in the Australian state of Queensland are in an ongoing industrial dispute with one of the biggest mining companies in the world over health and safety issues. BHP wants to remove critical health & safety roles from the workers and their union. This is a direct […]

Amid heightened tensions due to the ongoing protests by Palestinian political prisoners, mass protests were held in the West Bank and the Gaza to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the ‘catastrophe’. Nakba is the day to remember the hundreds of thousands of people who were displaced and forced to leave […]