Meatworkers and truck drivers in the state of Victoria are taking on the Coles supermarket chain, which is part of one of Australia’s biggest companies, over a new proposed agreement that would slash wages and destroy hard won conditions. Coles, in co-operation with the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees' Association […]
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The coal mining industry in China has one of the worst health and safety records in the world with thousands of workers dying each year , as a result of industrial accidents. The ongoing global economic crisis has seen a recent downturn in the total production of coal. This has […]
The situation for workers in Thailand has continued to deteriorate over the last few months with further clamping down on civil liberties under the Lese Majeste law (see here and here). In addition, the military is intimidating opposition politicians by ordering them to attend military barracks where they will be educated […]
Public Meeting Wednesday 4 February, 6pm Evatt Room, Trades Hall, Lygon Street Carlton With: Lex Wotton, on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Barbara Shaw, on the Northern Territory Intervention A speaker from the ETU about their Indigenous Apprenticeship project and the NTEU National Indigenous Organiser (to be confirmed) All welcome Download […]
This is the last regular mini news for 2014. The full mini news will restart in the first week of February 2015. The Asia Pacific Currents radio program is also taking a break. The first APC program for 2015 will be on Saturday the 7th of February. The first public […]
It has been well over a year since the massacre of over 1,100 garment workers at Rana Plaza and still the fight for proper compensation continues. Benetton is one of the major brands that has not contributed anything yet. In an unrelated development, owners of two of the garment factories […]
As reported previously, it is workers and their communities who are the greatest losers in the ongoing wars in West Asia. Despite repeated attempts to organise, widespread discrimination and precarious working conditions continue to weaken our brothers and sisters’ attempts to organise in Iraq. In neighbouring Syria, the heroic resistance […]
Around 150 workers in the southern city of Melbourne have been on strike for two months against the giant Otis company, the world’s largest manufacturer of elevators, escalators and moving walkways. Otis employs over 60,000 workers world-wide. The workers are fighting for better wages and conditions with the company trying […]
The last few years have seen growing confidence among workers in Indonesia with the staging of major strikes and actions to win better wages and conditions. Nevertheless, many workers continue to face harsh working conditions, unsafe workplaces and repression by the state. Thus, labour organisations continue to push for their […]
The killing of Ziad Abu Ein, a minister in the Palestinian Authority, by the Israeli army once again has brought into focus the lethal consequences of the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Ziad Abu Ein was killed when he, and a number of other villagers, were attempting to plant […]