Since early June, over 900 workers employed by the Artigas garment factory in Guanlan Township, Shenzhen, have been on strike against the company’s attempts to shut the factory and not pay their entitlements. This is not the first time the workers have been on strike. The workers have been occupying […]
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This year has seen a marked increase in the attempts by far right groups in Australia to capitalise on the current economic crisis. These groups are using the current government’s increasing nationalist agenda and ‘War on Terror’ rhetoric to direct people’s fears onto vulnerable groups in society. History shows that […]
In a situation that is becoming increasingly common in our globalised world, the giant energy company Caltex, has been seeking to replace a unionised workforce with a non unionised one. The aim of the company is to undermine the wages and conditions that Australian maritime workers have won over years […]
A few years ago, the workers at Turkish Airlines (TA) waged a hard struggle against the company to get over 300 sacked union members reinstated. In response the Turkish government managed to organise a take over of the aviation union, Hava Is, as well as splitting the workforce among different […]
As previously reported, Cambodian workers are campaigning against a new government labour code that would seriously restrict the right to organise and form unions in Cambodia. The outcome of such a law would mean that garment workers producing clothes for Armani would find it almost impossible to take action to […]
As reported last week, a number of activists of a group calling itself the ‘New Democracy Movement’, were arrested by the Thai military junta. Amid continuing internal and external pressure, these activists have been released on bail but are still facing the possibility of many years in jail. Supporters from […]
With the defeat of militant unions in the 60’s and 70’s, workers in Japan have seen their conditions progressively worsen with casualisation and precarious work becoming widespread. Workers from all sectors are increasingly fighting back, both industrially and legally. Earlier this month, teachers at the Ichishin Gakuin cram school won […]
The conditions that migrant workers have to endure in many countries in West Asia has been well documented, click here and here. A new report has highlighted how the rights of migrant workers in these countries are systematically abused. The laws that govern migrant workers routinely jeopardise workers legal status, […]
An accident in a warehouse in an industrial suburb of Phnom Penh that killed three workers has highlighted once again Cambodia’s deficient work safety legislation. The three workers were killed as they were attempting to unload a big piece of marble off a truck. They were not provided with any […]
As previously reported, teachers in Iran have been very active this year organising three nationwide days of protests over pay and conditions. Esmail Abdi, the General Secretary of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association, was arrested this week as he was about to leave the country to attend an international conference of the […]