| 31 May 11 | Factory employee charged with arson -- A man was charged with arson yesterday after police said he had confessed to attempting to burn down the same factory in Phnom Penh on three separate occasions because he was unhappy with his wages. ( Laborstart ) |
| 31 May 11 | Union Wants Labour Laws Amended -- Antigua St John's - The National Labour Board is proposing another amendment to the Labour Code, and trade unionist Dave Joseph wants the Minister of Labour, and, by extension, the Cabinet of Antigua & Barbuda, to adopt the "unanimous recommendation" of the National Labour Board with regard to amending section C: 44. ( Laborstart ) |
| 31 May 11 | Swazi workers step up challenge to royal elite -- SWAZI TRADE UNIONS CALL FOR GLOBAL SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE DURING THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE IN GENEVA ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 May 11 | Minimum wage adds up on calculator -- A calculator is now available to help employers and employees accurately compute the minimum hourly wage in the SAR. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 May 11 | GM trying to scare workers with job cut threat at Oshawa, union says -- General Motors of Canada is threatening job cuts at its Oshawa complex again to soften up workers for more concessions in bargaining next year, their union charges. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 May 11 | Embassy Protest Against Bahrain’s Anti-Union Repression -- 26 May 2011: A protest delivered to the Bahrain Embassy in Brussels today by international, European and Belgian trade union organisations calls on the authorities in the Gulf state to stop their violent campaign against the country’s trade union movement, to reinstate over 1,000 workers sacked and to drop false charges against union leaders, journalists and human rights defenders. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 May 11 | Iraqi Minister fines oil workers for striking -- AK News reported that Mr Abdulkarim Luaibi oil minister of Iraq has imposed USD 60,000 fines on 16 employees from the Masafi refinery in Basra for participating in a strike last year. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 May 11 | Algeria health unions end strike -- Algiers - Algeria's two main health care unions ended a week-long strike on Monday after government assurances on salaries and work conditions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 May 11 | Iran’s Simmering Labor Struggle -- CHICAGO—What was heartbreaking last year for Iran’s workers, he says, is even more terrible today. “It is ten times worse,” he says. “There is wage theft. There are factory closings and the taking away of rights.” ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 May 11 | [Statement] Explosion at Foxconn is not Accidental -- A blast broke out at Foxconn’s plant in Chengdu on 20 May evening killed 3 workers and injured 15. The plant is situated in the Processing Zone of Pi County, Chengdu and is a major production site for iPad. Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) expresses our condolences to the deceased workers and strongly condemns Foxconn for its negligence in maintaining work safety in the factory. The explosion is not accidental. SACOM pinpointed the problem of the aluminum dust in the polishing department in our report in early May. Regrettably, Foxconn turns a deaf ear to SACOM’s findings. After the spate of suicides, the blast also affirms Foxconn puts productivity of iPad before workers’ lives. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 May 11 | Carmaker Hyundai warns of serious supply disruption -- A strike at parts supplier Yoosung Enterprise has affected production, and it could get worse on Tuesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 May 11 | Honda workers forced to take 14 summer days off -- That month's earthquake and tsunami have created a parts shortage which has in turn hit vehicle production. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 May 11 | Chengdu authorities seal off Foxconn factory after explosion kills three -- Police in Chengdu have sealed off the hi-tech industrial park in Chengdu that was rocked by an explosion at the Hongfujin Precision Electronics plant, owned by Foxconn, on 20 May. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 May 11 | Government 'fires' striking doctors -- Government has purported to fire all striking essential services workers, among them doctors, nurses, and pharmacy technicians, after they refused to heed its ultimatum to resume duties. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 May 11 | Turkey criminalizes union action with mass indictments of union leaders - Act Now! to defend trade union rights -- The Turkish government has filed criminal charges against 111 union leaders, members and supporters which carry prison terms of up to 5 years in connection with a 2010 demonstration in Ankara. The Ankara action was in support of 12,000 workers made redundant overnight following the privatization of the state tobacco monopoly TEKEL. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 May 11 | Wildcat strikes spread in Iraq as BP lifts first oil cargo -- The threat of wildcat strikes engulfing Iraq's oil industry spread to BP's Rumaila field on Tuesday – on the day that the British energy major got its first payment for boosting production at the site. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 May 11 | Doctors announce strikes affecting 25 city hospitals -- Doctors, nurses, resident doctors and other medical staff pertaining to the ATE union announced two hospital strikes in the coming weeks, one on May 27 and the other on June 8. The strikes will affect 25 city hospitals, and aim to claim higher wages for staff. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 May 11 | Global economic crisis opens up new space for discrimination at work, ILO says -- GENEVA (ILO News) – In the new Global Report on Equality at Work 2011, the International Labour Office (ILO) notes that in spite of continuous positive advances in anti-discrimination legislation, the global economic and social crisis has led to a higher risk of discrimination against certain groups such as migrant labour. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 May 11 | Syria: ITUC Supports Call for General Strike on Wednesday 18 May -- 17 May 2011: As the repression against the popular uprising throughout the country continues, Syria’s opposition has called for a general strike on Wednesday 18 May. “Refusing to work is the only weapon the Syrian people have against the bullets, the tanks, the arrests and all the other brutal excesses of the Assad regime. We support this courageous strike for fundamental freedoms and social justice,” said Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the ITUC. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 May 11 | Malaysia must end abuse of migrant workers -- 24 March 2010 The Malaysian authorities should take action to end widespread workplace and police abuses of the migrant workers who make up more than 20 per cent of the country's workforce, Amnesty International said in a report released on Wednesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 May 11 | BA strike: Airline and union agree to end dispute -- The union said BA had agreed to restore travel concessions to staff who went on strike and award a two-year pay deal worth up to 7.5%. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 May 11 | Commitment to Organize Migrant Workers in the Caribbean Renewed -- Trade union leaders from Curacao, Bermuda, Trinidad and Tobago as well as representatives of the CCL and PSI reaffirmed their commitment to organize migrant workers in the Caribbean during a three-day Sub-Regional Evaluation and Planning Seminar that was held from May 3 to 5, 2011 in Bermuda. The objective of the seminar, which was hosted by the Bermuda Industrial Union, was to evaluate the Caribbean Sub-Regional Trade Union Development and Migration Project supported by FNV Bouw and FNV Mondiaal. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 May 11 | Oil company fires 300 workers om crackdown -- MANAMA: Bahrain’s oil company has fired almost 300 employees in recent weeks for taking part in anti-government protests and general strikes, according to the kingdom’s energy minister. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 May 11 | Swaziland says will be unable to pay civil servants -- Johannesburg - Cash-strapped Swaziland will most likely be unable to pay civil servants their salaries, the finance minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 May 11 | Egyptian doctors hold first nationwide strike -- The strike was organized by the High Committee for the supervision of the strike, which was elected by the syndicate’s General Assembly on 1 May. The strike covered most public hospitals in Egypt and several university hospitals. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 May 11 | HK's labour market unaffected by minimum wage -- HONG KONG -- The implementation of statutory minimum wage has not affected the incentive to hire, said Hong Kong's Secretary for Labour & Welfare Matthew Cheung on Sunday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 May 11 | Young Working Women from Around the World to Meet in Amsterdam -- Over 100 young women from 23 countries are gathering today in Amsterdam to plan the next stage of an international campaign aimed at reaching out to young women workers, and making sure international decision makers hear about the issues that affect young women at work ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 May 11 | Supporters invited to ‘flood mayor with messages’ to back UK activists -- Labourstart, the trade unionists’ online news forum, is inviting supporters to send messages in support of two sacked activists from the ITF-affiliated, British RMT union. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 May 11 | RMT seeks talks to avert tube strike after driver wins unfair dismissal case -- Tube union chiefs have demanded a meeting with London Underground in an effort to avert strike action after one of two drivers at the centre of an employment row won his claim of unfair dismissal. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 May 11 | Doctors to hold nationwide strike on Monday -- The Doctors Syndicate announced a nationwide strike in all hospitals on Monday, despite requests by some doctors to postpone the strike in light of casualties from the sectarian clashes in Imbaba on Saturday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 May 11 | Turks Welcomed to Russian Labor Union -- The Federation of Independent Trade Unions agreed to defend the rights of striking Turkish workers involved in a construction project near Vladivostok that is part of the preparations for next year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, in a move that signifies the importance of the event for the Russian government. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 May 11 | Bahrain to charge medics with acting against the state -- The 23 doctors and 24 nurses had promoted efforts to bring down the Sunni monarchy and spread false news, Khaled Bin Ali Al Khalifa alleged. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 May 11 | Sodexo could face trial over alleged violations of U.S. labor law as NLRB takes up charges against the company -- The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has determined there is enough evidence to pursue charges against Sodexo for allegedly violating U.S. labor law. After an investigation, the NLRB found that charges of interrogating, spying on, firing and/or threatening to fire workers suspected of supporting the union, and illegally using campus police to force a union organizer off campus have merit and has ruled it has enough evidence to bring Sodexo to trial. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 May 11 | Foxconn workers treated like 'machines': labour group -- Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn treats its workers like "machines", a Hong Kong-based labour group said Tuesday after a survey based on interviews with 120 of the firm's workers in mainland China. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 02 May 11 | MAY DAY: Workers await Jonathan’s N18,000 minimum wage -- The Nigerian workers are set to troop into the Eagles Square venue of the National May Day Rally, in Abuja, with expectations from President Goodluck Jonathan, to announce the effective take off of the N18,000 minimum wage. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 May 11 | May Day Rallies Call for Higher Pay and Social Security -- The overwhelming message on May Day from the thousands of workers who took to the streets in rallies nationwide was a call for better wages amid tougher working conditions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 May 11 | Hong Kong workers to enjoy minimum wage for first time -- Workers will now earn a minimum of HK$28 ($3.60; £2.18) per hour. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 May 11 | May 1 – International Workers’ Day -- Every May 1 we celebrate the many hard-fought battles and hard-won victories for workers’ rights and for social justice. ( Laborstart ) |
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