Next week is Asbestos Awareness Week. Asbestos is, and continues to be, a huge concern for Australian workers and the public. As a result of many years of concerted union campaigning, the use of all forms of asbestos in Australia has been banned since 2003, including its import and export. […]
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Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, who has been charged with lèse-majesté, goes on trial in Bangkok on 21 November 2011. The Campaign website for Somyot says: "We’re going to be bringing you live coverage of Somyot’s trial hearing on Monday 21st November. You can follow this from the freesomyot blog site or directly […]
Members of the New Zealand Meat Workers Union at CMP ANZCO have been targeted by a particularly vicious form of union busting which is being practiced more and more in IUF sectors across the globe. It works like this: an employer proposes radical changes to terms and conditions in CBA […]
The Malaysian Government has started operations against undocumented foreign workers, arresting 193 workers and five employers in three states across the country since 20 October. The Malaysian Home Minister said the operations in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Johor will be followed by larger crackdowns led by the country’s immigration department. […]
Workers at the Mumbai shipbreaking yard in India faced yet another fire accident on November 14 in which three workers suffered 40 percent burn injury. The incident took place at about 4.00 PM Monday as three workers, Ram Saroj 35, Sunil Rai 33 and Bijay Jena 28 were engaged in […]
At about 11PM last Friday night police attacked the peaceful picket line at the Baiada Poultry processing plant in Laverton, Melbourne Australia. One picketer was severely injured. Baiada workers are low-paid, predominantly Asian and African migrants to Australia. Baiada management has repeatedly rejected their modest claims, and refuses to recognise […]
Workers at the huge copper and gold mine in West Papua have announced that the strike will be extended till 15 December. Negotiations are still ongoing The union has lowered its bargaining position for the workers’ pay raise to US$ 4 per hour in the first year and US$ 7.50 per hour […]
The ongoing floods in Thailand have not only affected many parts of the country but have led to many factories closing their doors. This has had a very big impact on workers with over 500,000 losing their jobs. Of special concern is the situation of Burmese migrant workers who are […]
As stated last week, 53 workers at the Nestlé factory in Pajang were fired because of their attempts to achieve their collective bargaining demands. The workers have fought for over 5 years to achieve the right to collectively bargain. On the 31st of October, the union representing the workers, the SBNIP, […]
Notwithstanding the end of the second strike by workers at the Maruti-Suzuki plant in Gurgaon India last month, new developments are starting to occur. In the last week, workers at the Maruti factory decided that their own union was still their core demand by filing an application for registration of […]