As previously reported, the opening up of the Vietnamese economy to global companies has increased the pressure on Vietnamese unions to protect and advance their members’ rights. This week, up to 90,000 Adidas and Nike workers took to the streets of Ho Chi Minh City in the country’s south to […]
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On 4 April racist groups organised 16 anti-Muslim rallies across Australia. In Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and Hobart there were counter rallies. In all racist rallies (called Reclaim Australia) fascists were prominent organisers. Melbourne, centre of the Australian labour movement, was their main target: There organised Nazis joined […]
Australian unions won the right to be paid at overtime rates for working outside normal hours, on the week end and on public holidays. There is a concerted push by the Australian Government and capitalist groups to decrease penalty rates. The Australian union movement is campaigning hard to defend them. […]
In an ongoing dispute, Star Chemical Company in South Korea closed down in early 2013. Some workers rejected the termination package and kept on fighting. Cha Gwang-ho decided to climb one of the company’s chimney’s in May 2014. He is still there, see video, after 10 months, having just broken […]
In a judgement handed out this week, an Australian Judge ordered a restaurant who had employed an Indian cook, to pay almost AUS $200,000 in back pay. The cook, Dulo Ram, had been sponsored to Australia under its 457 skilled worker visa system. The judge found that Ram had been […]
At the end of March, Thailand’s military junta announced that it is in the process of lifting martial law, but will replace it with a new security order. This announcement has been met with widespread scepticism as the new regulations will hand the military even more powers to suppress dissent. […]
As reported previously, the rate of deaths and injuries in Vietnamese workplaces is nothing short of an ongoing massacre. This week, a large scaffold structure collapsed at a seaport construction site in the Vung Ang economic zone in the central Ha Tinh province. At least 16 workers were killed and […]
As recently reported earlier this month, the situation for migrant workers in Malaysia remains precarious with many working for low wages, long days and dangerous conditions. Malaysia’s booming construction industry is especially dangerous. Just earlier this week, another four workers were killed at a construction site when an elevator they […]
Yemen was one of the countries were the ‘Arab Spring’ found fertile ground as people rose up against inequality, poverty, corruption and repression. Workers and unions were central to many of these struggles but the forces of reaction were also very strong and many people were killed. After 4 years, […]
With the continuation of the economic crisis around the world, the social and economic burden of this crisis is being felt by more and more workers and their communities. Reactionary elements are trying to use this hardship to divide workers along racial, ethnic or religious lines. In Australia, a new […]