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 […]
Daily Archives: April 17, 2017
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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 […]
Last Sunday, workers participating in a weekly protest were baton charged and violently dispersed by police. These workers have been holding this regular protest as part of a long running dispute. In 2012, over 1,000 women workers were summarily dismissed by the Victory Chingluh Indonesia and Panarub Industry companies. These […]
The deputy chairperson of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Kazakhstan (CITUK) Nurbek Kushakbayev, was recently sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. Nurbek's crime is calling a strike at the Oil Construction Company. Due to the importance of the oil sector to the economy of the central Asian country of Kazakhstan, […]
Earlier this month around 1,000 workers at Apollo, a major tyre producing company operating in the industrial belt of the southern city of Chennai, went on strike for the right to form a union and to improve their wages and conditions. The local government quickly intervened to declare the auto […]
The announcement this week by the Thai military junta warning the population not to follow three social commentators on social media is a sign of the increasing determination by the generals to hold on to power. All three commentators are critics of the military dictatorship. In a worrying development, killings […]
Sunday 16 April is when the people of Turkey will vote on a national referendum on the constitution to grant the President more power. This referendum is being held in a tense climate with a state of emergency still in place. This has placed enormous pressure on the campaigners for […]