Australia Asia Worker Links (AAWL) has for the last 30 years helped to facilitate links and organising among trade unions and worker organisations in the Asia Pacific region. With the continuing globalisation of capitalism, the need for worker organisations to also organise and take action internationally is becoming ever more […]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
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After more than two months of aerial protests atop an electricity pylon, Mr Jae-ju Kim, President of the Jeonbuk Local taxi branch, came down last week after the employers agreed to recognise the workers union and allow it office space. In another development, after years of hard campaigning, cleaners from […]
On the 28th of March, Mr. Akachai Hongkangwan was sentenced to over three years in jail for selling CDs of a recorded Australian current affairs program which looked at the Thai royal family and the use of the Lese Majeste law. This is the latest case in a wave of […]
Ms. Perveen Rahman was a social and economic campaigner with the Orangi Pilot Project, who worked in the poor working class communities of Karachi. One of the most recent projects that Ms Rahman had been involved in was to document land dispossession and repression by religious extremists. On the 13 […]
The situation for workers in Iran is very hard with constant government repression against independent organising, and inflation eroding the purchasing power of workers. Recently 30,000 workers signed a petition against the national increase to the minimum wage because it is totally inadequate and will keep millions of Iranian workers […]
Following on from recent struggles by migrant workers in Malaysia, the Malaysian government announced an increase in the minimum wage. Unfortunately for migrant workers, the government has now exempted small and medium enterprises from passing on this increase until the start of next year. Migrant workers and local workers must […]
Two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the fall out for workers in the region continues. This disaster has become a catalyst for the growth of new layers of progressive organisations being able to mobilise tens of thousands of people across the archipelago of Japan. In addition, amid increasing tensions […]
On the 14 March, seven workers were killed and 13 were injured when a polyethylene chemical plant exploded in a residential area in Yeosu, South Jeolla Province. The workers, all short term contract workers, had been engaged in welding when the tank storing the plastic polyethylene exploded. This is not […]
The Maritime unions in Australia have campaigned hard over the last five years to establish a national code of practice in Australia to safeguard OHS on Australia’s ships and ports. Just when it seemed that progress was being made, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) and the stevedoring […]
As previously reported, oil workers in the southern Basra region of Iraq have protested against the government on a range of issues, from non payment of benefits to corruption. The head of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, Mr Hassan Juma’a Awad, has now been charged by the authorities accused […]