This year has seen continued industrial activity by teachers in Iran (see here and here) with many of the main activists arrested. This week news has come out that Mahmoud Langroodi, a board member of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (Tehran) was arrested at his home while another two unionists, […]
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When almost 200 employees of SF Leather decided to organise and join the union Deriteks, the company sacked 14 of the main labour activists in March of this year. The company also sought to crush the workers’ effort to organise. Unfortunately, such anti union tactics in Turkey are not isolated […]
The continuing global economic crisis is affecting the large shipbuilding sector in South Korea, with workers under pressure to pay for this crisis. The main companies affected are Hyundai, Daewoo and Samsung. This week, 25,000 workers at Hyundai and Daewoo shipyards staged a 4 hour strike against a continuing wage […]
On the 11th of September 2012, a fire started at the Ali Enterprises garment factory in Karachi, Pakistan. Even though the factory had just passed a safety inspection, over 250 workers were burned to death because the exit doors were locked, and there were non-existence fire safety procedures and equipment. […]
The anti worker and anti union activities of Samsung in South Korea over the years have been well documented, but just this week, the company once again blocked families’ attempts to claim compensation. Due to the relentless opposition by the company, some families of dead and injured workers have split […]
In a momentous event for all workers around the world, this week around 150 million workers in India staged a nationwide general strike. These actions have been by far the biggest coordinated industrial mobilisation by workers in the history of capitalism. Indian workers were protesting against proposed laws that would […]
The continuing flow of thousands of refugees from West Asia and North Africa, is leading to increasing political tensions in Europe. While how to deal with this influx is important for the welfare of the refugees, and has generated much solidarity, it overlooks the factors behind this influx. The causes […]
Philippines Airlines sacked almost 3,000 workers four years ago, in an attempt to contract out and casualise its workforce. These workers, organised by their union – PALEA, fought back against the company. The dispute lasted over two years and involved co-ordinated actions with airline workers around the world. In late […]
As in many other countries of the world, the public transport system of the southern Australian city of Melbourne is privatised. The company that runs the tram and train system, MTR Corporation, is a global company which also runs public transport systems in four other countries. Negotiations for a new […]
On the first day of September, tens of thousands of workers took to the streets of the Indonesian capital of Jakarta demanding better labour laws and a new minimum wage for 2016. This demonstration was jointly co-ordinated by the three main union Federations in Indonesia. With the ongoing scourge of […]