On Saturday, 13 workers from the Maruti Suzuki factory were sentenced to life imprisonment by the District Court of Gurugram, in Haryana state. This follows on from the previous ruling that had found an additional 18 workers guilty of a variety of charges following incidents in 2012. These sentences are […]
Daily Archives: March 19, 2017
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Hundreds of workers at the FAW-Volkswagen factory situated in the northeast city of Changchun have continued to take action over the last few weeks. Their demands are against the practice of agency labour hire which allows non-permanent workers to be paid as little as 50% as permanent workers for the […]
Hwang Yu-mi died on 5 March 2007 on the way to hospital from acute myelogenous leukaemia. She was the first publicly known victim of what later became known as the Samsung Electronics blood disorder cluster cases. Yu-mi was only 23 and had worked at Samsung for less than four years. Since […]
Over 1,300,000 central government workers throughout India staged a one day strike on the 16th of March, over the ongoing non-implementation of previous agreements, see photos of rallies and demonstrations. Specifically, workers are demanding that pay rises agreed by the 7th Pay Commission be implemented, that contracting of work be […]
International Women’s Day (IWD) was celebrated all around the world on 8 March. On the centenary of the Russian revolution of 1917 that was sparked by women workers taking action on IWD, many demonstrations highlighted how much more work is still needed to achieve gender equality whether in the workplace […]
The referendum to decide whether to grant the President of Turkey extra powers is still four weeks away, but the government is increasing the pressure on any opposition, including labour activists. The chairperson of Turkish Bureau Union, Fahrettin Yokuş, recently survived an assassination attempt from armed gunmen. A mob attacked the […]
This week, the Philippines Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) released new national policy guidelines on contracting and subcontracting. The new guidelines are supposed to limit the use by companies of contract and casual workers as a way to undermine workers’ solidarity and maintain lower rates of pay and lesser […]
On the back of the recent decision by the industrial tribunal to cut penalty rates for thousands of Australian workers, more reports are surfacing of the widespread nature of underpayment in Australia. Farms have been identified as using dodgy employment contracts to underpay workers, while a food chain like Domino Pizza […]