| 31 Mar 10 | S Korea's Kumho Tire workers to go on strike -- SEOUL, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Union workers of Kumho Tire Co., tiremaker unit of South Korea's cash-strapped Kumho Asiana Group, said Tuesday they decided to go on strike from April 1 after announcing negotiation with the management on a planned layoff ended in failure. ( Laborstart ) |
| 31 Mar 10 | ILO calls on Mexico to settle dispute with miners' union -- ILO considers Mexican government violated freedom of association convention by interfering in Mexican Miners' Union's autonomy and calls on Mexican government to resolve its dispute with the union. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Mar 10 | Unite raising £700,000 war chest for BA strike -- Britain's largest union, Unite, is digging in for a battle of attrition with British Airways after announcing that it is raising a £700,000 war chest for the cabin crew strikers. Unite is raising the fund through an "unprecedented" 2% levy on its 3,000 branches. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Mar 10 | Strike extended at key Argentine grain ports -- Workers demand up to 100 percent pay hike * CBOT soy price jumps on strike (Recasts, updates throughout) ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Mar 10 | Support Striking Mineworkers and Their Families in Cananea, Mexico -- More than 1,000 members of Mexico's National Union of Mine, Metal, and Steelworkers have been on strike at the Cananea copper mine in Northern Mexico since July 30, 2007, protesting health and safety and other contract violations. ( http://www.solidaritycenter.org ) |
| 29 Mar 10 | Palestinian public school teachers to strike -- Ramallah – Ma'an – The Union of Palestinian Teachers announced Saturday that it will go on strike from Monday after the government refused to address their demands. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Mar 10 | PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTITIONERS SUSPEND THEIR STRIKE -- ALGIERS, March 28 (NNN-APS): Public health practitioners on Saturday have decided to suspend their strike, started few months ago, announced the leaders of the two striking unions, namely the National Union of Public Health Practitioners (SNPSSP) and the National Union of Public Health Specialists (SNPSP). ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Mar 10 | Five-month strike - now a pay rise -- Teachers in Benin's three state universities have suspended industrial action that lasted for five months. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Mar 10 | ILO Commission of Inquiry on Zimbabwe Confirms Allegations of Severe Trade Union Rights Violations -- Brussels, 26 March 2010: A special Commission of Inquiry of the International Labour Organisation has, in its findings being presented to the ILO Governing Body this week, confirmed that Zimbabwe’s government is responsible for serious violations of fundamental rights, in particular concerning freedom to organise trade unions and to collective bargaining, the right to strike, and protection of trade unionists from discrimination. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Mar 10 | Japanese metal unions secure gains in annual wage negotiations -- IMF-JC secures wage rises from major Japanese manufacturers at a critical moment in its 2010 Spring Offensive. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Mar 10 | Strike continues at key Argentine grains port -- * Workers continue demands for higher wages * Rumors that strike over had pressured Chicago soy prices ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Mar 10 | Global Support Reaffirmed for Steelworkers Strike Against Vale -- Sudbury, 23 March, 2010 – Working people in several countries will hold public demonstrations and events next month during a “Global Week of Action” to denounce Vale Inco’s aggressive, destructive attacks on workers and communities. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Mar 10 | Despite Winning Recognition, Mexico’s White-Collar Pemex Workers Still Repressed -- The 30,000 technical and professional employees of PEMEX, Mexico’s state-owned petroleum company, finally won the right to unionize on their third attempt. The new union, Unión Nacional de Técnicos y Profesionistas Petroleros (UNTyPP), received its registration on 16 December 2009, and its leadership was officially recognized for the period 18 March 2008 to 17 March 2012. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Mar 10 | Act Now to Help Workers in Guyana -- Late last year, 57 leaders of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers’ Union (GBGWU) were fired, without recourse, when miners at the Bauxite Company of Guyana (BCGI) exercised their right to strike after they declared the company bargained in bad faith. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Mar 10 | New ITUC Campaign on Organising Young People -- Brussels, 23 March 2010: The ITUC is today launching a new campaign to connect global trade union work to the recruitment and organising of young people. The new Youth Campaign uses a range of different tools, including video, social networking, posters and websites, as well as a special campaign guide. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Mar 10 | Union suspends university strike for 10 days -- Bethlehem – Ma'an – The Union of University Employees in the West Bank announced Sunday that it will suspend its ongoing strike for 10 days beginning Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Mar 10 | Train, transport strikes planned for Tuesday in France -- PARIS — A strike Tuesday in France is expected to disrupt trains, transport, postal services and schools as unions aim a new blow at President Nicolas Sarkozy following his party’s drubbing in regional elections. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Mar 10 | Colombia too far behind on labor and human rights: US union -- A free trade agreement (FTA) between Colombia and the United States is continued to be held up because Colombia is not updating its labor laws and shows no improvement in its human and labor rights record, says America's largest union, AFL-CIO, one of the chief opponents to the FTA. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Mar 10 | Bangladesh too cheap for comfort for some brands -- AFP - The process of outsourcing production by Western companies is all about finding cheap labour to cut costs. But in Bangladesh, some retail groups are finding the wages too low for comfort. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Mar 10 | House Approves Historic Health Care Reform -- In an historic vote more than 60 years in the making, the House of Representatives late last night voted to approve (219-211) what AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls a ”momentous step toward comprehensive health care.” ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Mar 10 | British Airways and union claim advantage in strike -- British Airways and the union representing the airline's 12,000 cabin crew both claimed they held the upper hand on the second day of a three-day strike Sunday. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 18 Mar 10 | Court rules to reinstate ITUA union leader -- RUSSIA: Evgeny Ivanov, leader of the IMF-affiliated Interregional Trade Union of Autoworkers (ITUA) union at a GM Auto plant in Saint-Petersburg, was reinstated in his job. On March 15 the district court ruled illegal management's decision to fire him for his alleged no-show. The court also ordered the company to pay Ivanov three and a half months' wages in arrears and compensate moral harm. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Mar 10 | Olympic Workers Unpaid For Months -- MOSCOW — Hundreds of workers at an Olimpstroi-funded construction site in Sochi have not been paid in months, with some complaining that they are going hungry after giving up their passports as collateral to get food at grocery stores. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Mar 10 | British Airways strike: dispute goes international as Unite officials meet US union -- The Unite union has received backing from unions in America and Europe over its BA strike plans. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Mar 10 | Dismissed Employee Can Hold Position In Trade Union, Rules High Court -- KUALA LUMPUR , March 2 (Bernama) -- The High Court (Appellate and Special Powers) on Tuesday ruled that a dismissed employee can hold an officer's position in a union. ( http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=478990 ) |
| 17 Mar 10 | Workers strike over pay at Brazil John Deere plant -- SAO PAULO, March 15 (Reuters) - More than half of the 1,700 workers at a John Deere (DE.N) manufacturing plant in southern Brazil went on strike on Monday over pay demands, the firm's management said, adding deliveries were unaffected. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Mar 10 | Subway union's Néstor Segovia confirms march to Labour Ministry -- Employees from the five subway lines and the Premetro will march Wednesday from the Obelisk in the centre of Buenos Aires City to the Labour Ministry, demanding "delegate representation in negotiations and the formalization of pending union inscriptions," said Néstor Segovia, union representative. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Mar 10 | Trade Unions Ask Norwegian Pension Funds to Divest of Grupo Mexico Shares -- IMF, ICEM and four Norwegian trade unions ask Council on Ethics of the Government Pension Fund of Norway to divest its holdings in the Mexican mining conglomerate Grupo Mexico because of alleged labor and environmental violations. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Mar 10 | Thailand/Burma: Support migrant workers -- In 2004, the Royal Thai Government(RTG) and the Burmese military junta signed a Memorandum of Understanding providing for nationality verification of "illegal" Burmese migrants already working in Thailand so that they could become "legal." The process was never implemented. In late 2008, RTG announced that no migrants would remain "illegally" in Thailand after 28th February 2010. A final 30-day amnesty for unregistered migrants was allowed in July 2009 during which 1 million migrants registered. RTG then announced all registered Burmese migrants in Thailand must undertake nationality verification by means of a complex 13-stage process involving Thai employment offices, the Burmese Embassy in Thailand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Burma and Thailand, and National Verification and Processing Centres in three border crossings in both Burma and Thailand. According to the RTG, all registered Burmese migrants in Thailand have until Feb 28th 2010 to enter nationality verification or face deportation. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Mar 10 | International Labor Organization Urges Zimbabwe Gov't to Act on Worker Rights -- Lawmaker Collen Gwiyo of Parliament’s Committee on Public Service, Labor and Social Welfare said worker rights were not only being violated by the government but also by businesses ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Mar 10 | International Labor Organization Urges Zimbabwe Gov't to Act on Worker Rights -- Lawmaker Collen Gwiyo of Parliament’s Committee on Public Service, Labor and Social Welfare said worker rights were not only being violated by the government but also by businesses ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Mar 10 | Launch workers go on strike from midnight -- Dhaka, March 15 (bdnews24.com) - Launch workers went on strike from Monday midnight following the collapse of tripartite talks between the government, launch owners and employees to resolve ongoing worker demands for better working conditions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Mar 10 | Union reports on workers deaths and urgent needs -- CTF, the BWI affiliate has sent the latest report from the tragedy in Chile, including the sad loss of union members and the destruction of the homes of many more. Please see our earlier appeal on how you can show solidarity with the workers of Chile. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Mar 10 | Join Us and Make Wall Street Pay -- Starting today, the union movement and our allies are taking our fight for good jobs now to the biggest Wall Street banks whose reckless greed has gone a long way to wreck the U.S. economy and kill American jobs. ( http://blog.aflcio.org ) |
| 16 Mar 10 | Steel unions launch campaign for future of UK steel making -- Steel unions are stepping up their campaign for the future of UK steel making following a 14-day period during which, according to the unions, Corus has failed to demonstrate sufficient progress in finding a future for Teesside and has also issued compulsory redundancy notices. The National Trade Union Steel Co-ordinating Committee has issued the following statement: ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Mar 10 | Bavet casino workers claim unlawful firing -- NEARLY 300 former staff members of the Las Vegas Sun Casino and the Win Casino in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet town filed a complaint against the casino owners with provincial authorities on Thursday, saying that they were sacked without justification, a former worker said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Mar 10 | Gordon Brown intervenes in BA strike -- Gordon Brown has intervened personally in the British Airways industrial dispute in an attempt to avert a walkout by 12,000 cabin crew next weekend. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Mar 10 | GTI Mumbai Solidarity Campaign -- The ITF-affiliated Transport and Dock Workers Union (TDWU) has faced extraordinary repression and violence after the union successfully organised the majority of truck trailer drivers employed by contractors and subcontractors at Gateway Terminals India, a Maersk-owned company. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Mar 10 | KCTU Calls for Minimum Wage Rise -- A progressive union umbrella group called on the government Thursday to raise the minimum hourly wage, arguing that workers earning this were already fighting financial difficulties. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Mar 10 | Lockout at Bosch to hit vehicle makers -- Mumbai: A lockout at a factory of Bosch Ltd, India’s largest manufacturer of auto parts, may cripple the production of vehicles if the deadlock remains unresolved for a few more days, executives at some auto makers said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Mar 10 | Stevedoring strike’s ripple effects already seen in pay-packets of paper industry workers -- Mediation efforts in the harbour strike continued on Wednesday, but were called off already in the early evening as fruitless. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Mar 10 | Municipal workers set to strike over state funding for services -- Municipal services across the country will be absent today as workers plan to go on a one-day strike to protest government cuts to state and city service funding from the Finance Ministry. All municipal services are to be shut down today except schools and the municipal hotline. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Mar 10 | Greek strike to shut down services Thursday -- ATHENS, Greece — Greek unions say nationwide strikes will shut down all public services, closing schools, customs and tax offices, halting public transport and grounding flights for 24 hours. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Mar 10 | Nagaland University teachers on indefinite strike -- Kohima, Mar 9 (PTI) Classes in all the three campuses of the Nagaland University were today affected as the teachers went on an indefinite strike demanding immediate revocation of suspension of three senior teachers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Mar 10 | French workers reject Dunkirk refinery plan -- PARIS, Mar. 9 -- Another strike threatens France’s refining industry as workers at the 137,000-b/d Flanders Refinery at Dunkirk rejected a plan Total SA presented to a labor committee not to resume refining operations and to convert the site to other uses able to employ 370 with no layoffs. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Mar 10 | 4,000 workers go on strike in Rangoon -- Burma, 6 March 2010 - In the latest escalation of labour tensions in Burma, around 4,000 factory workers at an industrial estate on the outskirts of Rangoon staged a sit-in on Saturday to demand better pay, according to sources in the area. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Mar 10 | More strikes on the way -- Greek trade unions will reply with more strikes and rallies to the austerity measures passed by the government in response to the crisis, holding the next 24-hour general strike on March 11. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Mar 10 | International Women’s Day, March 8: Time to Recommit to Equal Rights -- Women make up more than half the American workforce and are approaching half of union members. On International Women’s Day, March 8, the AFL-CIO is recommitting itself to continue the struggle for equal rights, dignity and respect for all working women. ( http://blog.aflcio.org/2010/03/07/international-womens-day-march-8-time-to-recommit-to-equal-rights/ ) |
| 05 Mar 10 | Troubled Kumho Tires Faces Strike -- The troubled Kumho Tires faces a general strike by its workers following its management's announcement of a massive layoff plan. The company's labor union said Thursday the action will be launched on March 16 at the earliest unless the ongoing negotiations make notable progress. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Mar 10 | Warsaw taxi drivers on strike -- At 11.30 CET this morning several dozen taxi drivers set off from Bankowy Square to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister in the style of a funeral procession. The drivers were playing the funeral march and carrying a coffin with the inscription “The last licensed taxi driver”, as well as wreaths and banners saying: “Illegal transportation is the end to legal taxis”, “False cabs – a symbol of EURO 2012”, “Enough of taxi piracy”. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Mar 10 | Japanese firm Showa lockout 280 workers in Martorelles factory is now closed -- Barcelona - Japanese firm Showa lockout 280 workers in Martorelles, statement said the factory is now closed ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Mar 10 | Solidarity with Striking Mineworkers in Cananea, Mexico -- Since July 30, 2007, 1,200 members of the National Union of Mine and Metal Workers of the Mexican Republic (SNTMMSRM) have been on strike in Cananea, Mexico. The Mexican government and the employer, Grupo Mexico, have tried unsuccessfully to break the strike and destroy the union. Three times the Federal Labor Board declared the strike illegal, and each time the courts overturned this declaration. ( http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/ecouncil/ec03032010m.cfm ) |
| 04 Mar 10 | Union says IBM cut 2,544 workers in U.S. and Canada -- International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), Travis County's third largest employer, is reportedly cutting 2,544 workers from its global workforce. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Mar 10 | Tanta workers letter signed from the American Center for International Labor Solidarity -- Tanta workers letter signed from the American Center for International Labor Solidarity ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Mar 10 | Vale, Steelworkers to resume talks Wednesday -- While there's no word on how events are progressing, representatives from Vale Inco and Steelworkers are scheduled to meet again Wednesday and Thursday in their efforts to end the seven-month strike in Sudbury and Port Colborne. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Mar 10 | Mission Australia Employment Solutions Enterprise Agreement accepted -- Mission Australia Employment Solutions Enterprise Agreement negotiations have concluded in the successful vote counted Friday 26 February 2010. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Mar 10 | TODAY IMMIGRANTS ON STRIKE IN ITALY, FRANCE AND SPAIN -- ANSAmed) - ROME - Beginning this morning, Italy is seeing its first ''national strike'' of foreigners, called to bring ''visibility'' to the immigrants living and working in Italy and in order to fight against racism. The predominant colour is yellow, chosen by the organisers of the protest which began in France and is set to spread to other countries in addition to Italy. ( Laborstart ) |
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