Blog entry

In conjunction with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) annual general meeting in Dublin, Ireland, held at the start of June, airport workers in many countries (see here and here) staged protests in a co-ordinated Global Day of Action, (see here for pictures). In a globalised industry like aviation, workers […]

Workers at Bitzer have now been on strike for nine weeks. They are fighting for a contract that will not cut their wages and conditions. They want to stop the attempt to introduce different rates of pay for workers doing the same job. The workers are maintaining a 24-hour picket […]

Earlier this week, in an example of the health and safety issues that garment workers in Cambodia face, over 100 workers were badly affected by chemicals in their factory. The company, Orient International Enterprise factory, situated in the Kampong Speu’s Samrong Tong area, admitted that it had sprayed pesticides throughout […]

The powerful CFMEU Queensland union is using the Federal election period to start a political campaign called Steady Jobs. The aim of the campaign is to call on governments to legislate for better job security and against the increasing use of short term/casual employment contracts. This issue is something that […]

Hundreds of workers employed at a warehouse sub-contracted to PepsiCo in the Indian state of West Bengal are facing more pressure from management. The dispute started three years ago when workers took action to form their own union and for greater job security. Other groups of PepsiCo workers have also […]

This week, thousands of workers at the Gadani shipyards, near Karachi in Pakistan, took action to demand the reinstatement of hundreds of sacked workers. Workers had been demanding safer working conditions. Unfortunately the Gadani shipbreaking yards have a long history of unsafe practices, leading to many deaths (see here and […]

Last week, the Supreme Court of India helped to expose the ongoing disaster that is affecting quarry workers in the north western state of Gujarat. The court directed the Gujarat state government to finally pay compensation to over 200 families who had lost a family member due to the lung […]

The issue of insecure work affects workers all over the world, and in the Philippines it has come to prominence during the recent presidential elections. It is in this context that the members of PALEA are calling on the new Filipino President to pressure Philippines Airlines to honour the agreement […]

Australian coal workers had thought that pneumoconiosis, or as it is commonly called, ‘black lung disease’, was a disease that had been relegated to history after workers won better working conditions. But the capitalists have been systematically pushing back and making our workplaces unsafe in service of higher profits. Due […]

Australia marked National Sorry Day on 26 May, a day to remember and commemorate the attempted genocide of the country's Aboriginal people. While many events were held, the reality is that the oppression and dispossession of Australia’s Indigenous peoples continues (see here, here, here and here). Aboriginal workers had their […]