180 million Indian workers participated in a General Strike on Friday 2 September2016. Workers raised demands of increases to the minimum wage, an end to privatisation and an end to trade union repression. This marked the biggest industrial strike in the world, and is the most recent in a line […]
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The Victorian Trades Hall Council has called a Rally in support of the 55 sacked maintenance workers at Carlton and United Breweries (CUB). Unions knew that SABMiller & AB InBev, the parent company of CUB, was intending to attack workers wages and conditions globally. In June a conference of the […]
Labour activists in Guangdong are being detained without trial following major crackdowns in December 2015. One of these activists is Zeng Feiyang, director of the Panyu Workers Service Centre, who has been detained for about nine months now. The Panyu Centre has come under government scrutiny because its effectiveness in […]
Cambodia’s government is engaged in a serious anti-union offensive and earlier this year introduced the infamous New Labour Law. Negotiations have commenced for a national minimum wage in the garment sector, which in 2014 saw the arrest of 23 workers and the death of four people. This time around, the […]
Further investigations have brought to light the treachery of Australia’s biggest yellow union, the SDA. In these reports, new evidence shows that countless companies in the retail industry have been significantly underpaying their workers, adding to the revelations exposed in the Coles dispute. In another blow to the SDA, they […]
As President Duterte’s administration approaches its 4th month of office, the death toll of the war on drugs he has unleashed is literally increasing too fast to count. It is believed that by the end of August, 2000 people will have been killed by either police or death squads. Amid […]
A recent report on child labour has highlighted the social catastrophe that affects many Iraqis due to the ongoing effects of war. UNICEF reports that there are over half a million underage workers in Iraq, often working in precarious conditions in an environment that is badly regulated. The number of […]
The war in Bouganville that began in 1988 and lasted for 10 years, cost the lives of approximately 20,000 people. The dispute focused on the huge Panguna mine owned by Rio Tinto. While the Papua New Guinea government carried out the war against the local landowners, the Australian government was […]
A recent investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman found that a group of 26 fruit workers from Pacific Island nations were subjected to illegal practices. The workers were brought here by Seasonal Labour Solution, a labour hire company, and were not only underpaid but also subjected to extraordinary long hours […]
Over 300 workers employed at the Hyosung plant in Çerkezköy, a small city just west of Istanbul, Turkey, have been on strike since mid-August against the company’s anti-union stance. Five years ago the workers managed to form a union and get it formally recognised by the courts. The company challenged […]