The mining industry in Pakistan is poorly regulated, union organising is repressed, and enforcement of labour laws is weak. This results in workplaces that are incredibly dangerous to workers. In late July, the death of three more coalminers was reported from the Shahrigh coalmine, situated in the Balochistan province, Pakistan. […]
Daily Archives: August 6, 2016
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Israel, over the last decades, has developed one of the world’s biggest arms industries in the world. Since the September 11 attacks in the USA, the military establishment in Israel has done even better business by exploiting the ‘global terrorism issue’. One of the selling points for these merchants of […]
The Cavite Export Processing Zone in the Philippines hosts a number of large factories where unions are actively suppressed. NT Philippines Inc, a Japanese owned, electronics factory is the latest company that is trying to destroy a newly formed union among its 1,000 strong workforce. Union members are being isolated […]
Many thousands of Indian migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have been left in desperate conditions as the economic crisis deepens in that country. These Indian workers have been left with no money due to unpaid wages and no passports. They were literally starving until the Indian government shipped tens of […]
Bilal Kayed is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Recently Bilal had completed his jail sentence of over 14 years. Once completed, the Israeli government handed him another 6 months administrative detention. Bilal has now been on hunger strike for almost two months. Bilal’s situation […]
A recent report by two international human rights organisations has once again highlighted the barbaric treatment that refugees in Australia’s offshore detention camps are subjected to. While the Australian government response was to deny everything, refugee advocates in Australia are continuing to fight against these repressive policies. Even in death, […]
In late July, in a landmark meeting, garment unions from seven countries met in Phnom Penh to discuss how to collaborate better to achieve living wages and safe workplaces for all garment workers. The garment industry around the world is characterised by a brutal Race to the Bottom where workers […]
On 6 August 1945, the US government devastated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs. Both bombs killed tens of thousands of people directly, injured tens of thousands, and has caused ongoing lethal consequences for millions of people more. The union movement has a long anti- war history. […]