Over one hundred organisations, including trade unions, adopted a manifesto to end the sandblasting of jeans at the ‘Clean Clothes’ international forum in November. Jeans sandblasting causes silicosis, and 46 former sandblasting workers in Turkey alone have contracted an acute form of silicosis, prompting the Turkish government to ban the […]
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Over one hundred organisations, including trade unions, adopted a manifesto to end the sandblasting of jeans at the ‘Clean Clothes’ international forum in November. Jeans sandblasting causes silicosis, and 46 former sandblasting workers in Turkey alone have contracted an acute form of silicosis, prompting the Turkish government to ban the […]
Asia Pacific Currents 6/11/10 Asia Pacific news, current affairs and labour rights from the region. Interview with AK Padmanavan, President of regional chapter of the Centre of India Trade Unions on the latest industrial disputes in Tamil Nadu – India. File Download (28:25 min / 26 MB) Asia Pacific Currents […]
Asia Pacific Currents 6/11/10 Asia Pacific news, current affairs and labour rights from the region. Interview with AK Padmanavan, President of regional chapter of the Centre of India Trade Unions on the latest industrial disputes in Tamil Nadu – India. File Download (28:25 min / 26 MB) Asia Pacific Currents […]
The Northern Territory intervention is being met with increasing resistance. Enacted by the previous Conservative Federal Government and maintained by the current Labor Government, the intervention was supposedly enacted to "resolve" Indigenous Australians’ social issues. The reality is that these policies are further dispossessing indigenous communities through the use of […]
The Northern Territory intervention is being met with increasing resistance. Enacted by the previous Conservative Federal Government and maintained by the current Labor Government, the intervention was supposedly enacted to "resolve" Indigenous Australians’ social issues. The reality is that these policies are further dispossessing indigenous communities through the use of […]
Worker resistance and struggle has been mounting in Foxconn factories in India, China and Australia, with more workers speaking out and taking strike action. Some of the biggest IT brands, like Apple, Nokia and Hewlett Packard outsource production of their goods to Foxconn, which allows them to increase profits by […]
Worker resistance and struggle has been mounting in Foxconn factories in India, China and Australia, with more workers speaking out and taking strike action. Some of the biggest IT brands, like Apple, Nokia and Hewlett Packard outsource production of their goods to Foxconn, which allows them to increase profits by […]
After a strike that had lasted over five years, 10 sacked women workers, all members of the Korean Metal Workers Union, finally won their fight to become permanent workers. The workers were originally sacked by Kiryung Electronics as the company claimed they were not direct employees but sub contractors. The […]
After a strike that had lasted over five years, 10 sacked women workers, all members of the Korean Metal Workers Union, finally won their fight to become permanent workers. The workers were originally sacked by Kiryung Electronics as the company claimed they were not direct employees but sub contractors. The […]