| 31 Jan 13 | Working prisons the right approach -- The Public Service Association says the creation of more working prisons is the right approach which will bring social benefits. ( Laborstart ) |
| 31 Jan 13 | Peugeot Citroen job cuts plan suspended by French court -- The plans are controversial in France, as they involve 8,000 job cuts in the country and closure of a Paris factory. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jan 13 | ITUC Condemns Latest Attack on Greek Workers’ Rights -- 28 January 2013: The ITUC has condemned the Greek government’s use of wartime emergency powers to break a week-long strike by metro transit workers in the capital city of Athens. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jan 13 | Bangladesh: Seven Women Dead in a Preventable Factory Fire -- Seven young women, at least two of them teenagers, died over the weekend in a Bangladesh garment factory fire—the 28th fire incident to frighten, injure or kill Bangladeshi garment workers since a deadly blaze at the Tazreen Fashion factory killed at least 112 workers in late November, according to the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center staff in Bangladesh. At least 491 garment workers have been injured on the job since the Tazreen blaze, according to information compiled by the Solidarity Center. ( http://www.aflcio.org ) |
| 29 Jan 13 | GM postpones layoffs, avoid strike -- General Motors' Brazilian unit at the weekend avoiding a looming strike by delaying the layoff of up 750 workers until the end of the year and promising to spend about BRL500m (US$246m) at its Sao Jose dos Campos facility. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jan 13 | Unions rally behind transit workers as PM issues orders to return to work -- There will be no public transport in Athens on Friday as transit unions moved on Thursday to support striking colleagues on the city’s metro system after the government issued civil mobilization orders to force the workers to return to their jobs following an eight-day protest. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jan 13 | IndustriALL demands real action after fire in Bangladesh -- The fire emerged during lunch time on 26 January at a small garment factory Smart Fashions in Bangladesh capital Dhaka. The 7 reported victims have all been identified and are all female workers between 15 to 28 years old. The factory is said to employ 300 workers. ( http://www.industriall-union.org ) |
| 28 Jan 13 | Palestinian teachers to launch 3-day strike -- RAMALLAH: On Saturday, the Palestinian Teachers Union announced that it would strike for three days this week, Ma’an News Agency reports. Sunday through Tuesday there will be no classes in public schools, the secretary general of the union said, and teachers are demanding regular scheduled payments. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jan 13 | Greece police break up Athens underground workers' strike -- The workers had been on the ninth successive day of strike action that has crippled the underground system. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jan 13 | Korean union official on hunger strike needs your support -- Kim Jungnam, President of the Korean Government Employees’ Union, a PSI affiliate, launched a hunger strike on 15 January in the streets of Seoul outside the offices of the Presidential transition committee and has vowed to continue his hunger strike until the issues facing his union are resolved. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Jan 13 | Workers’ strike continues amid Morsi’s economic decisions - See more at: http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/02/26/workers-strike-continues-amid-morsis-economic-decisions/#sthash.9HU6KtI0.dpuf -- Workers have been demanding permanent working contracts, while protesting price hikes and fuel shortages at the same time, many companies and factories have suspended operations while others have shut down due to the ongoing labor strikes and the unprecedented losses ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Jan 13 | German court rejects airlines' suit for strike compensation -- A German court threw out Monday a lawsuit by two airlines and the operator of Frankfurt airport for compensation from a labour union to cover losses incurred by strike action by some of its members last year. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Jan 13 | Commerzbank plans 6,000 job cuts -- Germany's second-biggest lender Commerzbank is planning to cut as many as 6,000 jobs, or more than 10% of its workforce. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Jan 13 | Greek crisis: Striking transport workers 'face arrest' -- Greece has threatened transport workers whose eight-day strike has crippled the Athens underground system with arrest unless they go back to work. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Jan 13 | 1,000 Foxconn Workers Strike -- Workers at a factory owned by the electronics maker in Beijing protest ahead of the Spring Festival. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Jan 13 | Labour activist sues Walmart for wrongful dismissal and wins -- When Shenzhen Walmart employee Li Wan attended a collective bargaining training seminar in neighbouring Hong Kong in the summer of 2011, she hoped the experience would help in her fight to improve pay and working conditions at the store. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Jan 13 | President is on sit-down hunger strike -- President elect Park, Guenhye and presdential must resinstate 137 KGEU dismissed workers and normalise labour relations in government sector including recognition KGEU! ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Jan 13 | Fiji: Sugar Mills workers are still under pressure by the regime -- 22 August 2013: The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) strongly condemns the latest round of threats and intimidation by Fiji’s military regime. Sugar mill workers have been under pressure by the regime ever since they decided to vote on a possible strike. ( http://www.ituc-csi.org ) |
| 22 Jan 13 | Coca-Cola workers in Germany stage strikes -- BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of Coca-Cola employees in Germany are staging short-term warning strikes this week in a dispute over wages. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Jan 13 | 1,000 workers hold managers hostage in Shanghai labour row -- More than 1,000 furious migrant workers besieged a factory in Shanghai and held 18 Japanese and Chinese managers against their will for more than a day, after the workers were required to abide by unequal regulations. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jan 13 | Foreign firms in Vietnam seeking to sack pregnant workers -- Le Thi Kim Thanh, 33, a factory worker in the southern province of Dong Nai, recently lodged a complaint with provincial labor inspectors in order to save her job. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jan 13 | Construction Workers from “Zakhyst Pratsi” Trade Union Launched a Hunger Strike at Kyiv City Hall, Ukraine -- Construction workers from primary branch ‘Hammer and Sickle’ of ‘Zakhyst Pratsi’ Trade Union have occupied the building of Kyiv City Administration this morning and launched an indefinite hunger strike demanding payment of their salaries for the last 4 months. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Jan 13 | China's Uneven Labor Revolution -- Three months ago, the 17-year-old had found work as a waitress at Salvador's, a Western café and restaurant in Kunming, China. Situated in a crowded alleyway known to most Kunming residents as "Foreigner's Street," Salvador's serves up an unlikely assortment of milkshakes, breakfast burritos, chickpea patties, and craft beers. And while its menu is tailored to the foreign palate (Mexican food, unsurprisingly, remains a rarity in China), Salvador's does manage to draw local patrons as well. ("A lot of foreigners here," writes one reviewer on Dianping.com, the Chinese version of Yelp, "but the ice cream is good.") ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Jan 13 | Romania Railway Workers Start Unplanned Strike: Mediafax -- Workers at Romania’s railway operator Compania Nationala de Cai Ferate, or CFR, started an unannounced strike today, causing train delays across the country, Mediafax reported. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Jan 13 | Spain: Strike actions paralyse orange campaign -- The Lower Guadalquivir Workers' Movement, which took industrial action in the orange sector, called the strike "a success," with 100% support in Palma del Rio and Posadas and well over 90% in Hornachuelos. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Jan 13 | Strike action suspended -- Although accepted “reluctantly but magnanimously” according to Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, the request by the PM for the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) to forego any further industrial action was acceded following a high level meeting at Government headquarters yesterday evening. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Jan 13 | Union representatives protest state worker bonus cuts -- Representatives from the trade unions of state-owned banks and government-owned enterprises under the Ministry of Finance yesterday delivered a petition to Minister of Finance Chang Sheng-ford (張盛和) to express their displeasure over year-end bonus cuts. ( http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2013/01/15/2003552556 ) |
| 16 Jan 13 | Air NZ in call centre move -- Air New Zealand plans to outsource some of its contact centre work in a bid to cut costs. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jan 13 | Workers strike at Foxconn supplier in China -- More than 1,000 workers reportedly went on strike at a Foxconn supplier in China demanding better pay. Riot police are said to have responded by suppressing the protest. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jan 13 | Mississippi Yearning: Some Nissan Workers Want a Union Vote -- DETROIT — The actor Danny Glover has enlisted on the side of Nissan workers in Canton, Miss., who asked him for help in getting what they call a fair vote on whether the roughly 3,000-worker plant there should unionize, he said at a news conference on Monday. The 10-year-old plant employs a mix of permanent and long-term temporary workers. Some employees have complained that lower-paid temporary workers jeopardize job security and depress overall wages. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Jan 13 | Hong Kong's foreign 'helpers' fight for equality -- Every Sunday in Hong Kong, thousands of women spread out blankets and flattened cardboard boxes on the city's sidewalks, underpasses, and public squares, they sit themselves down on the hard concrete, and then they relax. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Jan 13 | Opposition call to strike rapped -- A LABOUR union has slammed calls by anti-government groups for a strike tomorrow, accusing the opposition of politicising the workplace without voicing any clear demands. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Jan 13 | Massey to pay living wage -- Massey University will likely be next to follow The Warehouse by offering its workers a "living wage", making it the the first tertiary establishment in New Zealand to take up the challenge. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Jan 13 | Workers at Paris airports set to strike -- PARIS (Reuters) — French air-transport unions plan to strike from Tuesday to Thursday and airlines should reduce flights to the major airports, France's civil aviation authority (DGAC) said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Jan 13 | French taxi drivers' strike clogs roadways -- PARIS (AP) — Taxi drivers across France clogged traffic, slowed access to airports and forced would-be passengers to find alternate transport as they held a strike Thursday over government deregulation proposals they fear will cut into their business. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Jan 13 | Greek public sector workers strike against austerity -- Greek workers walked off the job on Wednesday to protest against wage cuts and tax hikes. The new austerity measures are demanded by Greece's international lenders in order to qualify for bailout loans. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Jan 13 | Antwerp port strike ends following agreement over dockers’ work -- A strike in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium which began after union delegates were refused entry to a warehouse during a routine inspection, has come to an end. ITF- and ETF-affiliated unions ACV Transcom, ABVV-BTB, ACLVB were all involved in the action which ran for six days from 26 June. The unions stopped all cargo at Katoen Natie terminal after delegates were barred from entering a warehouse where they suspected non-dockworker agency staff from Poland were doing dockers’ work. It is thought this was being facilitated through transshipment and goods storage company, Logisport. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Jan 13 | Auto Workers Protest 'Maquila' Conditions in U.S. -- A group of auto workers and supporters will demonstrate at the International Auto Show in Detroit next Sunday and Monday, to call attention to the “maquiladora model” they say the auto companies are applying in their U.S. plants. ( http://labornotes.org ) |
| 09 Jan 13 | Mozambique doctors go on strike over low pay -- Health ministry says no law allows essential public-service workers to halt work, over pay and working conditions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Jan 13 | Indian transport unions launch sensitisation programmes in wake of brutal bus attack -- ITF-affiliated unions in India have reacted quickly to launch sensitisation programmes for their members following the rape and torture of a 23 year-old woman on a private bus in Delhi. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Jan 13 | Foxconn plans union elections in China -- Foxconn, the electronics manufacturing giant, is preparing to conduct elections for a representative labour union in its Chinese factories. The move follows severe criticism from trade unions and human rights groups for workers’ suicides, poor working conditions and employment relations at the company. ( http://www.industriall-union.org ) |
| 07 Jan 13 | IndustriALL, UNI and ITUC visit Bangladesh -- The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh is our strong response to the recent horrific catastrophes in the Bangladeshi garment industry. Negotiated between IndustriALL Global Union, UNI Global Union, and over 40 of the most progressive global fashion brands, the Accord is not just another voluntary initiative. It is a binding agreement with a complaints mechanisms and real consequences for non-compliance. ( http://www.industriall-union.org ) |
| 07 Jan 13 | Collective bargaining negotiations in Metal Industry -- In their training programmes carried out in the framework of the Hard and Dangerous Works Code metal workers are told: “To mould metal is the greatest skill of human beings. The more a country is able to tame and mould metal the more powerful it is.” So Turkey is a powerful country as metal workers keep all the time working hard to mould metal with a great skill and swelling the profits of bosses. But they take only a little part of the wealth they created as their class brothers/sisters in other industries do. Why? ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Jan 13 | Shipping workers to strike if wages not hiked -- Bangladesh Shipping Workers’ Federation on Saturday said if the government did not meet its 21-point charter of demands it would enforce a countrywide indefinite strike in the shipping sector from January 9. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Jan 13 | Greek civil aviation workers call strike against layoffs -- (Reuters) - Greek civil aviation workers plan to disrupt flights for three days next week in protest at government plans to fire 300 airport staff, their union said on Friday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Jan 13 | HOW ADIDAS IS VIOLATING WORKERS' RIGHTS -- The Badidas Campaign What put the "bad" in Badidas? Adidas is the second largest sports apparel provider in the world, bringing in $8.21 billion in gross profit in 2011. But despite profiting more than ever, Adidas refuses to address serial human rights violations within its supply chain. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Jan 13 | Public Workers’ Union on Strike Today -- ADEDY, the Greek umbrella union representing state workers, on Wednesday announced protest action against layoffs in the public sector that is expected to affect services and traffic circulation in downtown Athens. ( Laborstart ) |
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