| 29 Feb 12 | IMF challenges FLA investigations at Foxconn -- GLOBAL/CHINA: On February 23, the occasion of Apple's 2012 annual shareholders' meeting, the IMF, GoodElectronics and makeITfair call on Apple shareholders to do the right thing in an open letter. Apple has recently joined the Fair Labour Association (FLA), but recent developments point to this being no more than a PR stunt. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Feb 12 | Employers to get €200m windfall from ‘free’ leap day -- Workers who receive an annual wage will work the extra day because there are 252 working days in a leap year as opposed to the 251 days they worked last year. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Feb 12 | All-India strike hits banking, transport services -- Millions of workers of all political hues have gone on strike across India on Tuesday to express their anger at soaring prices and to back demands for improved rights for employees, trade unions and political activists said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Feb 12 | Oil Services Giant Schlumberger Pressured over Egyptian Union Busting -- Schlumberger, the world’s largest oil services company, has been scrambling to defend actions of local management in Egypt who sacked the entire leadership of a nascent trade union. Pressure has been exerted by the ICEM and its affiliated Norwegian union, IndustriEnergi (IE), on senior management to intervene and remedy this unacceptable violation of rights in Egypt. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Feb 12 | Turkey: New ITUC Report Highlights Government’s Failure to Protect Workers -- Weak and poorly-enforced labour laws, coupled with courts which are strongly biased in favour of employers, leave the country’s workforce without protection from discrimination and largely unable to bargain collectively for decent wages and conditions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Feb 12 | Workers lose Bt755m to bogus job offers -- The victims are mostly based in Bangkok, Chaiyaphum, Nakhon Ratchasima, Lampang and Udon Thani, the department's director-general Prawit Khiangphol said. Between October 2010 to September 2011, 1,783 workers were duped of up to Bt120 million. ( The Nation ) |
| 22 Feb 12 | Respect workers' rights! -- The General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions (GFBTU) claimed some workers waiting to be reinstated were "afraid" of new conditions put forward in their contracts. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Feb 12 | Locked-out Alcan Workers Take Dispute to Canadian Business Doorstep -- Locked-out members of Syndicat des Métallos d’Alma Local 9490, the United Steelworkers (USW), took their fight against Rio Tinto Alcan to Québec’s largest city, last Friday, 17 February, where Alcan CEO Jacynth Côté was part of a spurious forum on youth in employment, sponsored by the Board of Trade Metropolitan Montréal. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Feb 12 | For Rangoon Strikers, No End in Sight -- RANGOON — Even though she works at least 50 hours a week, she can hardly make ends meet. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Feb 12 | Australians want workplace laws that provide secure jobs, not greater power for employers: survey -- Any further changes to workplace laws should improve job security, rights and protections for the millions of people in insecure work, not hand more power to employers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Feb 12 | Building workers warn of more to come -- TROUBLE IS brewing in the construction industry, after striking builders warned yesterday they would actively ensure all building sites were free of subcontractors today. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Feb 12 | Are you feeling insecure? -- s your job less secure than the one you had five or 10 years ago? Are you a casual worker, or on a fixed-term contract or getting temporary work through a labour hire company? But, at the same time, are you working harder and longer hours than you were? ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Feb 12 | Rio de Janeiro police end strike ahead of carnival -- Union officials in the Brazilian state said a vote on Monday had agreed to stop the demonstration over pay. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Feb 12 | Belgian rail unions cancel Wednesday strike -- The ACOD Spoor union said in a statement that it was suspending its call for action given that SNCB had agreed to talks over a reorganisation that ACOD says threatens the well-being of staff. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Feb 12 | Railway workers call wildcat strike -- Israel Railways workers committee and the Histadrut, General Federation of Labor have called a wildcat strike as part of their struggle against the company's management. All trains will stop running from late tonight until further notice. The last train before the strike begins will leave Modiin at 11.04 pm tonight. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Feb 12 | German and Finnish unions fight against cuts at Nokia Siemens -- GERMANY/FINLAND: On February 7 Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), the Finnish-German telecom equipment maker, said the company is going to cut 4,100 jobs in Germany and Finland. Earlier in November last year the company declared there would be 17,000 jobs slashed out of the 74,000 global workforce. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Feb 12 | High Court delivers a win for collective bargaining in Rio Tinto’s Pilbara operation -- The High Court has today upheld a ruling allowing employees of Rio Tinto’s iron ore operation to engage in genuine collective bargaining, said the CFMEU miners’ union. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Feb 12 | Jordan teachers strike over demand for salaries to double -- Amman (dpa) – Thousands of Jordanian teachers went on strike Wednesday for the third consecutive day to demand a sharp increase in their salaries, forcing a closure of classrooms across the kingdom. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Feb 12 | Strike costs Air France up to 10m euros a day -- PARIS — A strike by pilots is costing Air France around 8-10 million euros ($10.6-$13.3 million) per day in operating income, a spokeswoman said yesterday as the industrial action entered its fourth and final day. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Feb 12 | General strike in Israel to continue after last-ditch negotiations fail -- A general strike in Israel's public sector will continue on Friday, after negotiations between the Histradrut Labor Federation and the Finance failed to resolve the gap between the two sides late Thursday. Despite the failure to reach an agreement, the two sides made significant strides forward on Thursday in talks. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Feb 12 | Nokia cuts 4,000 jobs as assembly moves to Asia -- Nokia is to cut another 4,000 jobs as it announced plans to end smartphone assembly in Europe and shift production to Asia. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Feb 12 | Summary Box: French strike grounds hundreds of flights, labor fights proposed law over strikes -- BUMPY RIDE: Hundreds of Air France flights were canceled Tuesday, and the disruption is expected to get worse during a strike over labor rights. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Feb 12 | General strike in Belgium as EU leaders meet -- In its first general strike since 1993, the Belgian union movement is protesting against austerity measures as EU leaders meet for a summit in Brussels. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Feb 12 | Israeli union employees strike on behalf of subcontracted workers -- (CNN) -- Workers at Israeli airports, hospitals, banks and government ministries began a nationwide strike Wednesday after union and government negotiators were unable to bridge differences over the employment of subcontracted workers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Feb 12 | Brazil: Standoff Between Police, Soldiers -- (SAO PAULO) — Soldiers clashed with supporters of striking police in Brazil's third-largest city on Monday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the feet of people trying to join officers occupying the Bahia state legislature building. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Feb 12 | Workers Strike over Chinese New Year Wage Dispute -- More than a thousand workers at a Chinese-owned shoe factory in Rangoon went on strike on Monday after they discovered that they would not be paid for an enforced five-day break to mark the Chinese New Year. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Feb 12 | Migrant Worker Sit-In Makes Waves in Singapore -- Strikes and sit-ins are almost unheard-of in Singapore. So it’s no wonder a sit-in involving foreign construction workers Monday morning is making headlines. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Feb 12 | Bankrupt American Airlines to slash staff, costs -- American Airlines said Wednesday it needed to cut costs by 20 percent to stay afloat, as it met with union representatives to detail a plan for layoffs that reports said would total 13,000 workers. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 02 Feb 12 | Rail strike called off after thousands stranded for hours -- A wild-cat strike by a section of railway workers that left thousands of people stranded today evening was called off after an assurance from the Trnasport Minister Kumar Welgama to discuss their issue of salary anomalies. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Feb 12 | Iberia Pilots Announce 5 More Days of Strike -- Madrid, Feb 1 (Prensa Latina) Spanish Iberia airline pilots, who have staged seven days of strike in just over a month, announced on Tuesday another five days of strike against the creation of a low-cost carrier. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Feb 12 | Employers stuck in past and must catch up to values on equal pay for women -- Employers must move on from old-fashioned ideas about women’s work and make a genuine commitment to overcome the 18% gap between men and women’s pay. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Feb 12 | Belgian workers hold general strike to protest austerity measures on day of EU summit -- BRUSSELS — Belgian trade unions organizing a nationwide strike Monday called on leaders attending the European Union summit in Brussels to move away from austerity measures and start boosting growth and employment. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Feb 12 | State of emergency ends in Kazakh strike town -- President Nursultan Nazarbayev said on Friday that the state of emergency would not be extended because the "situation had taken a normal course". ( Laborstart ) |
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