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The industrial dispute at Seung Yeun Technology (SYTIC) escalated on Friday when locked out workers barged into the factory and occupied their workplace.  SYTIC is located in the Cavite Export Processing Zone in the Philippines, the county’s largest EPZ. The workers are fighting against the contractualisation and union busting tactics […]

This week, Rezaul Karim Siddique, an English professor, and Julhas Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar, two gay rights activists, were murdered in Dhaka in targeted political killings. These three murders are just the latest of a series of attacks on secular and human rights activists in the last few years, (see […]

Earlier this month, over ten thousands garment workers in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, paralysed large sections of the city by holding a snap demonstration in some of the city’s busiest roads. The workers were angry about a planned change to their Employee Provident Fund. While this threat to […]

Earlier this week in Mayong, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, a crane collapsed on a building site killing 18 workers and injuring over 50 others. While a gust of wind was implicated as the immediate cause for the crane’s collapse, the reality is that in many Chinese workplaces, […]

It has been over three years since the fire at the Ali Enterprises garment factory fire in Baldia town, Karachi that killed over 250 of its workers. The fire was a direct result of the owners’ total disregard for the health and safety of its workers. This week, rallies were […]

In June 2007, the federal government staged a massive intervention in the Northern Territory with the lie of protecting Aboriginal children from sexual abuse. On every single possible measure, such as violence against women, alcohol and drug use, incarceration rates, suicides and levels of education, the Northern Territory Intervention has […]

The meat processor Talleys/AFFCO group of companies in New Zealand have an appalling health and safety record with workers continually suffering injuries at work. In addition, the companies actively minimise and hide many of these incidents. Labour activists and unions throughout the Asia/Pacific have taken action to show solidarity and […]

Two imprisoned labour activists in Iran, Jafar Azimzadeh and Esmail Abdi, have announced that they will start a hunger strike at the end of April to coincide with May Day as an expression of solidarity with workers worldwide. Jafar and Esmail, both of whom have been arrested for labour activities, […]

This upcoming 30 April will mark the 5th anniversary of Somyot Priksakasemsuk’s imprisonment in Thailand under that country’s draconian Lese Majeste laws. Somyot is a journalist and a labour activist. Thai activists are calling for supporters around the world to send letters to Somyot as a show of solidarity with […]

Scores of Filipino workers employed at Seung Yeun Technology Industries Corp. (SYTIC), at the Cavite Export Processing Zone in Rosario, went on an indefinite strike this week. The company produces semi-conductors electronic products for major international companies. The workers are demanding the reinstatement of 20 workers fired for union activities, […]