Companies, in their quest for ever greater profits, expand their operations internationally by integrating their production, distribution and commercial divisions at a global level. To be effective in confronting this new reality, workers also need to organise and take actions that are integrated and co-ordinated at an international level. In […]
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In recent times, Japanese post office workers have taken industrial action against the increasingly harsh management policies that are trying to increase work intensity. This pressure by management includes publicly humiliating workers in front of their colleagues and continually increasing sales targets. Many workers have killed themselves due to this […]
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 […]
Australia Asia Worker Links (AAWL) has facilitated links and organising among trade unions and labour groups in the Asia Pacific region for over 30 years. In this time, it has become clear that with the continuing globalisation of capitalism, workers also need to organise internationally. Companies, in their quest for […]
Recent comments by the Bangladesh Finance Minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, and by Atiqul Islam, the President of the employers’ garment association, BGMEA, show their disregard for workers’ lives and wellbeing. They both commented that the Accord on Fire and Building Safety was an unnecessary cost on the garment industry […]
A landmark report this week by the Australian Industrial Commission, FWA, has found that one of the major companies in the Australian poultry processing industry, the Baiada group, has set up its business model in order to increase profits by underpaying its workers. Baiada uses an operating model that transfers costs […]
The history of Australia is one of colonisation, dispossession and genocide. While there have been improvements, the reality is that Aboriginal people are still the poorest and most discriminated section of the Australian population. Aboriginal people are still fighting against Governments, institutions and companies for their right to culture, land […]
Afghanistan is a country that has been engulfed in war for the last 35 years and where workers face incredible dangers. Notwithstanding this history, since the start of June thousands of high school teachers have been on strike in a co-ordinated campaign across the country led by the Teachers National […]
As previously reported, many workers in China face precarious employment due to casualisation and contracting out. The death of a sanitation worker in Shenzen last month as he was sweeping, has galvanised fellow workers to fight for better working conditions and against outsourcing employment arrangements. This same week, a report […]
In the face of continuing mass protests by Palestinian prisoners, and their non co-operation even when on hunger strike, Israel authorities are resorting to ever more brutal tactics. The Israeli government now is proposing that Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike be force fed, a move that many Israeli doctors are […]