Monthly Archives: September 2016

Around 1,200 workers at the private Saad Specialist Hospital in the eastern city of Khobar have walked off the job in an indefinite strike over unpaid wages. Not only is strike action extremely rare in Saudi Arabia, a country that bans any trade union activity, but this action is extremely […]

Five dismissed Honda workers have been on a hunger strike for that last week in New Delhi to protest against their treatment and for the reinstatement of dismissed workers. They have now been joined by hundreds more workers who are staging demonstrations in support of these hunger strikers in the […]

Around 140 workers in the central Queensland coal mine at German Creek, near the town of Middlemount, have been on strike over a new collective agreement. The mine is owned by the giant Anglo American group which has now taken steps to try to employ strike breakers through a labour […]

The Turkish government is using the opportunity of the July 2016 failed military coup to target the still powerful Turkish working class. The figures speak for themselves. The number of teachers dismissed in this time has reached almost 30,000, with another 10,000 still under investigation. An additional 20,000 civil servants […]

Since the start of 2015, there has been a determined push by a number of far right groups in Australia to increase their influence by exploiting the current economic and political climate to their advantage. While Labour and human rights groups have organised counter mobilisations to oppose them, at the […]

The long running case against labour right activist Andy Hall concluded this week when a Thai court found him guilty of criminal defamation and violating the Computer Crime Act. Andy’s research focused on the mistreatment of workers, mostly migrant workers from Burma, employed at the Natural Fruit Company, in Prachuap […]

A new investigative report into the working conditions for workers employed by the global fashion company H&M has highlighted a number of labour rights violations. All the workers were not employed by H&M directly but were working for sub-contracting firms. In addition to low wages that often forced workers to […]

Over one hundred security workers in East Timor are battling Gardamor over their entitlements after being summarily dismissed. Gardamor is a security company run by an ex guerrilla fighter. Workers in East Timor have had lots of difficulty securing good working conditions and rights in the workplace, since independence. The […]

Death Squads in the Philippines have predictably started assassinating worker organisers. Orlando Abangan “Ka Lando” was shot dead on his way home in Talisay, Cebu in the Philippines on 17 September. Ka Lando was a well-known labour and human rights activist. Recently he had been a staunch critic of the […]

Aboriginal people in Australia continue to survive colonisation and the impact of the invasion is brutal and long lasting. In Melbourne last week, in an historic occasion, the first ever monument commemorating the death of Aboriginal freedom fighters was unveiled (see video of unveiling). In the meantime, in the northern […]