In the afternoon of April 14, in an outlying area of Colombo, a huge section of a rubbish dump came crashing down on workers’ homes. With recovery efforts still ongoing, the final death toll is likely to top 50 people. Around 150 houses were either destroyed or seriously damaged. This […]
Monthly Archives: April 2017
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In an unprecedented event, 1,500 Palestinian prisoners began a co-ordinated open ended mass hunger strike earlier this week. The hunger strike is being dubbed the ‘Freedom and Dignity’ strike. The demands of the prisoners are around better access to family, medical treatment, as well as a whole series of improvements […]
Millions of workers either die or get sick every year due to unsafe workplaces. April 28 is the international commemoration day for workers who have been killed or injured because of work. Unions fight for safety at work. This day marks our demand for safe and healthy workplaces. Unions, labour […]
May Day has been celebrated internationally since 1886 as the day for workers to unite as a class. Capitalists and governments are killing us in our workplaces and in our communities. Workers need to stop the politics of austerity and war. March in solidarity with workers in struggle everywhere. Rallies […]
The April 24 is the fourth anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh that killed over 1,100 garment workers. The trial for the people responsible for this disaster is ongoing and expected to last years before a final judgement is arrived at. This massacre of […]
After a five year campaign, over 50,000 mainly women workers in the aged residential care, home support, and disability services this week won a multiyear pay rise. This increase is a recognition that workers were receiving poverty wages and were subjected to systemic exploitation. Unions now hope that this increase […]
Around 200 wood workers were locked out this week by their employer, Carter Holt Harvey, in Myrtleford, a regional town in south eastern Australia. This dispute is the result of a breakdown of negotiations for a new workplace agreement, with workers seeking reasonable wage increases and improved income protection insurance […]
Protests against a new USA military installation, the THAAD missile system, are continuing in South Korea with actions taking place on a weekly basis. The anti militarism movement has been able to use the momentum of the successful anti-Park actions to galvanise opposition to this new military system. The proposed […]
This week, workers employed at the Mayson Bakery factory in Yangoon's Hlaing Tharyar Township, won an important victory after a month long strike. In early March, the company summarily dismissed 184 workers, including its union activists. Through strong solidarity from local workers and support from the International Union of Food […]
A new climate of fear is developing in Malaysia with a spate of recent abductions and disappearances of social activists, like Raymond Koh and Peter Chong. While in the past, government critics had to face repressive laws like the Internal Security Act and the Sedition Act, political abductions are a […]