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In the latest negotiation with SPSI, the management increased its first-year wage offer to 35% from 30%, while offering 11% in 2012. It also requested the union to clear the blockades that have been set up. The union refused. The union is demanding a pay raise up to US$4 per […]

The situation in Syria continues to deteriorate with ongoing arrests and killings of protesters. Many industrial cities like Homs and Daara, and selected working class areas of cities like Damascus, are in virtual permanent state of siege. In response, opposition groups designated the 1st of December as day for a […]

At any one time, at the Gadani ship breaking yards, just west of the Pakistani city of Karachi, up to 15,000 workers are employed to dismantle ships from all over the world. These workers are mostly employed as casuals, do not have access to any prescribed safety measures, regular transport, […]

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) are welcoming the release today from prison of Ebrahim Madadi, a board member of the Tehran bus drivers’ union, the Vahed Syndicate. Ebrahim had been unjustly held on false charges of endangering national security since being arrested […]

Up to a thousand garment workers went on strike in at the start of this week in Phnom Penh, Cambodia calling for the re-instatement of three suspended union representatives. The company, Cambo Handsome Ltd, suspended the three on charges of stealing two t-shirts. The union representing the workers, the Workers […]

62 workers at a Turkish subsidiary of German-owned GEA have been locked out since July. An international delegation of some 60 representatives from 20 countries visited the plant and called on the company to reinstate the workers immediately. At the center of the struggle is GEA’s open hostility and aggressive […]

Trade unions and church groups in the Philippines have joined together in calling a boycott of Philippine Airlines and Air Philippines in solidarity with the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA).  Philippine Airlines is putting into place a plan to outsource its ground crew, which would result in deep pay cuts […]

Following on from the actions of the Qantas management in locking out its entire workforce, workers are still fighting the company’s to outsource its work. Last week there protests in many countries. Union representatives from around the world rallied outside the Australian High Commission in London to support Qantas workers. […]

Members of the New Zealand Meat Workers Union at CMP ANZCO have been targeted by a particularly vicious form of union busting. They have been locked out since 19 October to try to make them accept cuts in wages and working conditions and shift pattern changes.  CMP ANZCO has proposed […]

ها هي الدول الإمبريالية إلى جانب غيرها من حكومات المنطقة -في قلب ذلك الصراع المحتدم حالياً في سوريا-  تسعى لاحتلال موقعٍ ما لها في "سوريا مرحلة ما بعد الأسد"، و نظراً لأهمية سوريا البالغة استراتيجياً فإنّ تلك الأنظمة الإمبريالية و حليفاتها تهتم كثيراً بأخذ ما أمكن لها من نفوذٍ أو […]