The bitter Philippine Airlines dispute against outsourcing continues. AAWL organised a very successful international solidarity visit to Melbourne with PALEA Vice President Alnem Pretencio. Alnem met with Australian airline unions members and officials, and received very significant support. Yet again we see in practice that workers recognise their common interests […]
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The popular uprising in Syria continues to spread amid ongoing repression that has left thousands dead. Mass demonstration and strikes have occurred throughout this year. A renewed call for rolling general strikes to target different sectors of the economy had been called to start on Saturday the 11th of December. […]
Mr. Mansour Osanloo, a bus driver, was in jail for almost four years. He was released from an Iranian jail in June of this year. Mansour’s health is now severely compromised due to an untreated heart condition while in prison. Mr. Kim Hyuk also got out of jail earlier this […]
As reported previously, the campaign to free the six labour activists from Faisalabad, who were jailed under the Pakistan Terrorist Act has generated a lot of solidarity within Pakistan. These actions are continuing with an international solidarity campaign started calling for their immediate release.
AAWL has received a message from Junya Lek Yimprasert of Action for People’s Democracy in Thailand which says: This is a call for solidarity for the people of Thailand. PLEASE HELP us abolish Thailand’s cruel, archaic laws of lèse majesté and release the unknown hundreds of lèse majesté and other political prisoners. […]
On November 24, the IUF-affiliated Hong Kong catering and hotel workers’ union CHIEGU and the HKCTU, the national centre of which it is a member, held a protest action in front of the Fiji Consulate to highlight escalating attacks on human rights and growing repression of the trade union movement […]
Korean unionist Kim Jin-suk has touched ground for the first time since January to end her protest against Hanjin Heavy Industries. She occupied a 35 metre tall crane in the southern port city of Busan for 309 days. The protest began when Hanjin Heavy Industries announced it was cutting 400 jobs […]
LOBBY of the Philippine Consulate 1 Queens Road, Melbourne (cnr Kings Way & Queens Road) Wednesday 14 December, 12 noon sharp Click here to read the protest letter More than 2000 workers at Philippine Airlines have been locked out and then sacked, in a major, Qantas-style labour dispute about […]
The Freeport-McMoRan strike continues. The workers’ union at the Grasberg mine, PUK-SP-KEP-SPSI, together with KASBI and AAWL have issued a joint statement. Your endorsement is requested. The statement ends with the following demands: We demand that the government immediately stop militarising the dispute and withdraw police and military officers from […]
Occupy Mendiola rally – 7 December. Workers and students were protesting on Mendiola bridge against the demolitions of poor people’s houses, low wages, the non distribution of Luisita lands, and the cuts in budget for social services like health and education. Mendiola bridge is a traditional area for protest rallies. But the […]