Workers and their families in Iraq have endured incredible hardships and suffering in the last decades as repression, wars and invasions have destroyed one of the most industrialised countries in the region. The rise of the Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq is a product of these years of […]
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In a dispute that has been simmering for most of this year, management at a Designer Jeans factory this week locked out its workforce of 1,900 workers. Earlier, management, in collusion with state forces and police, had sacked two workers and had charged 260 workers on a variety of vandalism […]
As previously reported, the self appointed, military government of Thailand is continuing to extend its reign of terror and silence all opposition. It has recently arrested the relatives of those who were killed by the Thailand military in the violent crackdown of 2010, as they have been fighting for justice […]
This coming week, Sydney University will host an international conference in Bangkok, Thailand entitled ‘Enhancing Human Rights and Security in the Asia Pacific’. Under pressure from the Sri Lankan military establishment, the conference organisers decided to stop two Sri Lankan human rights organisations from attending the conference. In addition, the […]
The bombing of the Gaza strip by Israel might have finished, but the repression of Palestinian people in the occupied territories continues. Israel has increased its settlement budget by 600% this year, money that is mostly spent on expanding illegal settlements inside the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Palestinian parlamentarian Khalida […]
Late last month, 200 sanitation workers at Guangzhou’s University Town took action to demand the right to collectively bargain with their employer and change their sham contracts. The workers also had to elect their own union representatives as there was no enterprise union. Earlier this month, the workers won their […]
There has been yet another delay in the ruling on a landmark court case, challenging the use of subcontracting by Korean auto company Hyundai. This court case, lodged in 2010 by 1,569 Hyundai subcontractors, is part of an 11-year struggle to force Hyundai to convert its subcontractors to full, permanent […]
5,000 workers at an ore mine in Iran's Bafgh region, went on strike to demand the release of two workers arrested by the State Security Forces because of a strike against privatisation in May this year. The security forces responded to this latest strike by arresting five more worker activists. […]
Australian unions rallied outside the headquarters of latex manufacturer Ansell, after the Australian government denied visas to visiting Sri Lankan comrades. The Sri Lankan unionists are in dispute with Ansell in Sri Lanka, after the company fired nearly 300 workers who went on strike in support of 11 sacked colleagues […]
The world’s sixth busiest port was blocked by striking truck drivers, demanding an increase in their wages and haulage rates. The strike was violently broken up by riot police. A very similar strike happened at the Shanghai port in 2011. Chinese workers often use social media to generate very large […]