Many of the oil rich countries on the Arabian Peninsula depend on migrant labour to build their cities and run their economies. These workers are not allowed to organise and usually work in unsafe conditions for low pay. Ten workers from Bangladesh died late last month when their labour camp […]
Daily Archives: June 17, 2012
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As reported earlier this year, migrant workers, mainly from Burma, employed in Thai fish factories are fighting for better wages and conditions. Last month another case of major exploitation at a fish factory was uncovered. The situation is so widespread, that one of the first stops of the recently released […]
The situation for workers in Turkey is deteriorating with increasing pressure being applied against workers organising. Earlier this year we saw workers being fired at Trextra, an Apple supplier, for trying to organise a union. In the last few weeks airline workers have been attacked by both company and government, […]
11 workers were killed and several sustained serious burn injuries in a major explosion at RINL Visakhapatnam steel plant, Andhra Pradesh, India. Safety at the steel plant came under serious scrutiny in recent times following an accident on May 1, 2012, when two contract workers were burnt to death in […]
20 June marks World Refugee Day. War and oppression creates refugees. Capitalism creates war and oppression. Refugees are workers who are running from bombs and running from starvation. They go to countries like Greece, the United States, Egypt, Malaysia and Korea where they are constantly being threatened with deportation. They […]
Li Wangyang, a Chinese trade union activist, died earlier this month in suspicious circumstances at a hospital in Hunan. Li Wangyang spent 22 years in prison for his part in organising workers during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. Mr Li had been released from jail last May due to […]
POSCO is a Korean owned multinational who in the early years of this century struck a deal with the Indian government to build a $12 Billion project in Orissa consisting of mines, a steel plant and a port. Local communities have consistently fought against this project on the grounds that […]