| 29 Mar 12 | Army on standby as petrol tanker drivers vote on strike action -- Preparations are being made to call in the military to deliver petrol if tanker drivers stage a national strike, in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the chaotic scenes that followed blockades by fuel protesters in 2000. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Mar 12 | Strikers shut down German airports -- The strike is part of public service union Verdi's ongoing campaign of warning strikes as it negotiates for better pay and conditions. The next round of negotiations of is scheduled for Wednesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Mar 12 | Teachers’ strike in Benin -- Since 20 March, Benin has seen two teachers arrested for violating the ban on meetings in the workplace and 14 others manhandled and arrested at their director’s request for taking part in a sit-down strike. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Mar 12 | Camusso, strike is inevitable, to be fostered -- AGI) Cernobbio - The general strike is inevitable and should be fostered, said Susanna Camusso, CGIL Secretary General. She said this at the margins of the Confcommercio Forum, with regards to the 16-hour strike package. "There is no element that makes us go back on this decision. On the contrary, it must be reinforced." Secretary General Camusso reminded that CGIL "called for a 16-hour strike package to take place when the law decree the labor market reforms is to be debated." . . ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Mar 12 | Spanish Unions Predict Large-Scale General Strike -- Madrid, Mar 23 (Prensa Latina) The two main Spanish unions, the General Union of Workers (UGT) and Workers Commissions (CCOO), predicted on Friday a massive response to Thursday''s general strike against government labor reform. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Mar 12 | 89 workers say good bye to HPL -- March 22 –89 expelled workers of HPL have received compensation and certificate of appreciation from the management during a farewell programme. A farewell programme has been organised jointly by union and management of KSPL and HPL. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Mar 12 | The STRIKE make us stronger. Updates on Workers’ Strike of PT. NBC Indonesia – Karawang (FSPK-KSN) -- Around 130 workers of PT. NBC Indonesia located in the Industrial Area of KIIC Karawang held a strike since March 19 2012. Joined in the strike were all union members, triggered by the negative response of the management to continue the wage negotiation that was started on January 4, 2012. Besides, the decision to hold on strike has been triggered by the arrogance of the Corporate Leader, Koshi Watanabe. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Mar 12 | Kuwait Airways workers suspend strike -- Members of the ITF-affiliated Workers’ Union of Kuwait Airways and Subsidiaries have halted strike action as they prepare to begin negotiations with management in an ongoing dispute over benefits. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Mar 12 | Seoul City's temporary workers to get regular status -- Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) announced Thursday that it will make 1,054 non-permanent contract workers regular employees from May 1. It currently has a total of 2,916 non-regular employees. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Mar 12 | Spain Braced for Mass 29 March Strike over Draconian Labour Legislation -- Spain’s two labour confederations, Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) and Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), have jointly called a 24-hour strike for 29 March in response to labour law reform which is already in force by decree-law of 10 February by the Council of Ministers and is pending of Parliamentarian validation. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Mar 12 | March 22: Portuguese workers to stage general strike – Portugal -- The leader of the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers (CGTP), the Portuguese largest trade union confederation, said Monday the organization intents to go ahead with the general 24-hour strike scheduled for Thursday, March 22. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Mar 12 | Negotiations Restart between USW, Rio Tinto Alcan in Canadian Lockout -- For the first time since the 30 December lockout by Rio Tinto Alcan of 780 union members of Syndicat des Métallos d’Alma in the Canadian province of Québec, bargaining got back on track this week. After a half-day delay caused by a different labour dispute at the Montréal airport on 19 March, provincial mediators Jean Poirer and Jean Nolan travelled to Alma where United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9490 leaders and six members of Alcan’s management met face to face that afternoon. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Mar 12 | K2 pressed to cancel layoff plan -- K2, the country’s largest maker of outdoor gear, is drawing protest from organized labor rights groups for its intention to dismiss all production workers here and move plants to Indonesia where labor costs are cheaper. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Mar 12 | Treasury staff to consider strike -- STAFF at the Treasury Department are meeting today to decide whether or not they will take industrial action this week, The Tribune has learned. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Mar 12 | Bus line 60 drivers plan to strike -- Drivers from the number 60 bus line are in a permanent union meeting due to the "arbitrary dismissal" of four employees as well as other labour demands, and could go on strike for the rest of the day. ( Laborstart ) |
| 19 Mar 12 | Public university employees suspend strike action -- JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- The union for public university and college employees announced Saturday that they have suspended their strike action for one week. ( Laborstart ) |
| 19 Mar 12 | Security guards threaten to strike over Bills -- NAIROBI, Kenya Mar 18 – Private security guards are threatening to down their tools in the next three weeks unless the government and Parliament fast-track a bill seeking to regulate their operations. ( Laborstart ) |
| 19 Mar 12 | Spanish Unions Ratified Call to General Strike -- Madrid, Mar 16 (Prensa Latina) The two main unions in Spain, Workers' Commissions (CCOO) and the General Union of Workers (UGT) ratified on Friday their call to the general strike next day 29 against the government's labor reforms. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Mar 12 | Estonian strike wins government concessions -- A series of strikes by Estonian unions in protest over attacks on trade union rights has led to a number of concessions from the government. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Mar 12 | Unions call for a $26 wage rise to help our lowest paid catch up to average earnings -- Unions will seek a $26 a week pay rise for Australia’s lowest paid workers in 2012, whose wages have fallen well behind average income earners over the past decade and are not keeping pace with the cost of living. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Mar 12 | Kenya: Nurses Want Sack Letters Withdrawn -- NURSES' representatives yesterday said they will resume talks with the government only if letters sacking striking nurses are revoked. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Mar 12 | Kazakh Oil Workers' Lawyer Released On Probation -- ASTANA -- The jailed lawyer of striking oil workers in western Kazakhstan has been unexpectedly released on probation. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Mar 12 | SCAF takes strike-breaking into its own hands -- While the independent trade union movement has flourished over the past year, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has taken a harsh line toward organized labor, criminalizing strikes and work stoppages, and arresting protesting workers and labor activists. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Mar 12 | Unions threaten strike against Skanska -- Up to 2,000 employees at Swedish construction company Skanska could be affected by an industry union strike that might begin last week, a spokeswoman for the company said on 2 March, it was reported. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Mar 12 | Narva Power Plants workers hold a support strike -- Yesterday, the Viru County Court forbid the trade union of Narva Elektrijaamad to have a strike that would reduce the ordinary production capacity of the power plants. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Mar 12 | Labor Leaders Plan to Apply New Clout in Effort for Obama -- As the A.F.L.-C.I.O. prepares to endorse President Obama on Tuesday, labor leaders say they will mount their biggest campaign effort, with far more union members than ever before — at least 400,000, they say — knocking on voters’ doors to counter the well-endowed “super PACs” backing Republicans. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Mar 12 | iSlaves: Forced Labor Key to Apple Profits -- More horrors out now from the Chinese serf-labor system involved in creating Apple products like iPads, iPhones and Kindles. It turns out many of the workers churning out millions of the devices in unendurable conditions at Foxconn and other factories are also forced laborers as young as 16. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Mar 12 | Myanmar law allowing labor unions and strikes comes into effect -- An announcement Saturday in the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper said the law took effect Friday and the Labor Department’s director general will oversee its implementation. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Mar 12 | National union says airport strikers disrespected -- A representative of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) says that striking workers at Fredericton International Airport, who have been without a contract for three years, suffer workplace bullying. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Mar 12 | Saudi Arabia: King Must End Slavery of Domestic Workers -- Sharan Burrow, General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation, said domestic workers are excluded from labour legislation in the Saudi Kingdom and open to serious exploitation and abuse. Most workers are migrant woman from Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Philippines and India. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Mar 12 | BA province teachers conclude second day of strike -- Teachers in the Buenos Aires province finished their 48-hour strike on Wednesday, a protest that on both days was joined by a high percentage of teachers. They are now waiting for a better offer from the Government which they believe “will end the conflict.” ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Mar 12 | International Women’s Day: insecure work is the hidden driver of the gender pay gap -- Better pay, paid parental leave and equal opportunity laws are important advancements but cannot alone reverse the deep-rooted inequity that women continue to face at work. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Mar 12 | Auto Workers Tap Network for Obama -- As Mitt Romney prepared to deliver an economic address here on Friday declaring Mr. Obama’s three years in office a “failed presidency,” hundreds of union members gathered on the top level of a parking deck as a freezing drizzle fell. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Mar 12 | Local Governor Accused in Shooting of Cambodian Footwear Strikers -- The 20 February shooting at strikers – mainly women – of the KaoWay Sports Ltd. footwear factory in Bavet, Svey Rieng province, Cambodia, appears to have been committed by the governor of Bavet region, Chhouk Bandith. Three women were shot and seriously wounded after a man dressed in police-style khakis got out of a vehicle and began firing at people. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Mar 12 | APPLE MUST END THE USE OF STUDENT WORKERS IMMEDIATELY! -- Today, SACOM issued a public letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, with the endorsement of 200 university teachers and students from 96 universities in 19 countries. This endorsement demands Apple to end the use of student workers and rectify blatant labour rights abuses in its supply chain. When confronted with escalating criticism of Apple’s unethical labour practices, Tim Cook responded, “We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. Any accident is deeply troubling, and any issue with working conditions is cause for concern.” However, promises without action are merely empty rhetoric. Furthermore, Apple attempts to whitewash its unethical labour practice through purchasing membership from the Fair Labour Association to “probe” the problems at its suppliers. Apple has known about the labour rights abuses in its supply chain for years, however it has not addressed these abuses. Given this, Apple should act without hesitation to remedy labour rights violations. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Mar 12 | Construction firm workers go on flash strike in Oman -- Muscat: Some 2,000 workers of NCC (Nagarjuna Construction Company) International went on a flash strike at different work sites of the Indian company in Oman. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Mar 12 | Ground workers strike at Berlin's Tegel airport -- Ground workers at Berlin's Tegel airport walked off the job on Friday morning, in a strike over pay. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Mar 12 | Adidas, Nike, Puma workers abused in Bangladesh: Report -- LONDON: Bangladeshi workers producing sportswear for Puma, Nike and Adidas are being physically abused, a British newspaper claimed today. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Mar 12 | ITF welcomes judge’s bid to rescue Mexican airline -- Following 18 months of bankruptcy, the federal judge of bankruptcy protection measures Felipe Consuelo Soto has certified that Med Atlantic group will invest 300 million US dollars to aid Mexicana airline’s recovery. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Mar 12 | MBC fires head of reporters’ union -- MBC, one of the country’s major terrestrial broadcasters, has dismissed the head of its reporters’ union for leading an ongoing month-long walkout. The broadcaster’s latest move in the unprecedented labor-management standoff has invited strong protests from reporters who have in return vowed to take more radical action to oust company President Kim Jae-chul and other senior managers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Mar 12 | Egypt: ITUC Call to Drop All Charges Against Kamal Abbas -- According to the information received by the ITUC, a Misdemeanor court in the city of Helwan sentenced Kamal Abbas, in absentia, to six months imprisonment for “insulting a public officer” during the 2011 International Labour Conference in Geneva. The sentence refers to Thursday 9 June 2011, when Kamal Abbas interrupted Ismael Fahmy while he was delivering a speech to the Conference. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Mar 12 | Classes Suspended at the University of Manouba as “Niqab Dilemma” Continues -- Classes at the Faculté des Lettres of Manouba have been, once again, suspended until further notice, in the midst of the ongoing controversy surrounding the right to wear the niqab, the full-face veil, in university classrooms. Professors at the university have decided to go on strike until a resolution is reached. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Mar 12 | Ports Authority workers strike against military presence -- More than 200 workers and employees at the Headquarters of General Authority of Red Sea Ports (GARSP) in Suez started a strike Wednesday demanding the removal of naval officers, who were assigned by the government-run authority in December 2011 to "secure" Suez port. The strike, employees confirm, followed a three-day sit-in. ( Laborstart ) |
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