It has been six months since the collapse of the Rana Plaza building killed well over a 1,000 workers. While there have been many meetings and documents produced since that day, the daily reality for most garment workers in Bangladesh has not changed. In addition, most families of the dead […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
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As reported last week, the Korean Teachers union was under intense political attack from the government over its defense of union activists. This week, the Korean government has stepped up the fight by effectively declaring the union illegal and stripping teachers of their legal right to organise. This action is […]
While it has been two and a half years since the Tsunami severely damaged the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan, radiation continues to leak out of the plant. Unfortunately, the most severely affected by this are the workers who are trying to contain this disaster and stop it from becoming […]
While many countries have either banned asbestos altogether, or are implementing programs to curb its use, the reality is that in some countries the use of asbestos is still increasing. This continued use will lead to the unnecessary death of thousands of workers and their families. Join in the fight […]
The popular and worker led uprising in Bahrain that started over two years has been suppressed by the government by continual attacks involving thousands of arrests, beatings and heavy use of tear gas. A recently leaked report documenting an order for a huge amount of tear gas and stun grenades […]
As previously reported, workers at Turkish Airlines have been on strike since 15 May 2013 because the company has refused to bargain with the union in their next round of Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations. 305 workers that were previously sacked over industrial action are still fighting to be reinstated. The […]
The Korean government has demaded that the Korean teachers' Union (KTU) disaffiliate its unemployed members, or risk deregistration. The teachers have been given until October 23 to change their constitution or else the government will revoke the 60,000-member union’s official status, 14 years after it became an official union. The […]
We've brought you regular reports about the situation for migrant workers in Malaysia – see here, here and here. More recently, a Cambodian woman who has been working in the garment industry has been detained in Malaysia for nearly a month after she failed an annual health test and before […]
After bringing you a number of bad news stories in relation to Samsung Electronics in Korea (see here, here and here), we are finally able to bring you one small victory. On October 18, the Seoul administrative court ordered that KCOMWEL, the quasi-government entity responsible for workers compensation, pay industrial-accident […]
We've previously brought you a story about the conditions for migrant workers in Qatar in the lead up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup that is to be held there. Recently, two German broadcasters have been detained by Qatari police as they attempted to investigate the plight of migrant labourers […]