| 30 Jun 10 | French strike over plans to raise retirement age -- Trains stood still and children played instead of studied as workers around France went on strike Thursday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age by two years to 62. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jun 10 | China's factories hit by wave of strikes -- Industrial unrest has been spreading through China's factories, with strikes breaking out in the south, east and north. China correspondent Damian Grammaticas has been to the industrial heartland in southern Guangdong province to examine why the strikes are happening and what the implications are. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jun 10 | More travel misery from Greek general strike -- Travellers in Greece on Tuesday ran a labour gauntlet for the second time in a week as a general strike against pensions reform shut down services and disrupted departures from the capital. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 29 Jun 10 | Strike Avoided, Salary Increases for Norway’s Oilworkers -- ICEM affiliate Industri Energi (IE) successfully negotiated salary increases for its members at Statoil’s offshore Gullfaks B and Gullfaks C fields, and at Shell's Draugen field, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Talks between union officials and the Norwegian Oil Industry Association, mediated by Nils Dalseide of Norway’s National Arbitration Tribunal, reached agreement that avoided strike action after extending a midnight deadline and concluded in the early hours of Thursday 17 June. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jun 10 | Teachers' stir chokes highway -- MOHALI: Vehicular movement on the busy Chandigarh-Manali national highway came to a rude standstill for close to seven hours on Monday after around 300 computer teachers sat on dharna to protest termination of their services. The educators were fired on May 28. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jun 10 | Greek Unions Stage General Strike On Tuesday -- Greece’s two main umbrella unions stage a 24h walkout on Tuesday, protesting against the overhaul in the labor market and pension system. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jun 10 | TCD: research cuts will cost 1,000 jobs -- Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is predicting that its new funding for research will collapse in the next five years, cutting spending on research by three quarters and leading to the loss of almost 1,000 research positions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jun 10 | Look to Chinese strikers for hope -- Leaders representing the G20 will soon arrive in Toronto to participate in a two-day summit to discuss a variety of global issues — including how to stop the slow, continuous bleeding brought on by the most devastating economic recession in recent memory. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jun 10 | Strike ends at Arcelor's Algeria plant -- steel plant in Algeria ended on Thursday a three-day strike over pay increases that had halted production, a union official said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Jun 10 | Labour unions have over 700,000 signatures -- Five union headquarters managed to collect 720,078 signatures calling for a referendum on labour law reforms, the organizers announced today (Thu). ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Jun 10 | New BWI Regional Representative for Asia/Pacific -- BWI World Board has officially appointed Apolinar Tolentino as the Regional Representative for Asia Pacific Region after being Officer-in-Charge for six months. Dong, as he fondly called, started his trade union career as an organiser immediately after graduating from University during last few years of Marcos dictatorship. He became the Programme Coordinator of the Fatima Parish Labour Desk, a Church-based Labour Organising Progrmme in Valenzuela City, Philippines from 1989-1991 before joining the Labour Desk of the Institute of Social Order of the Ateneo de Manila University from 1991-1996. Later he also worked with fisherfolk cooperatives and and sugarcane workers' organisations in Southern Tagalog before re-joining the Philippine trade union movement again in 1999 as Project Education Officer of the then IFBWW Philippine Project Office. In 2004 he moved to BWI Regional Office as Regional Education Officer until his appointment as Regional Representative. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Jun 10 | ILO Conference Adopts New Labour Standard On HIV/AIDS -- Governments, employers and workers at the recent annual conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) have adopted a new international labour standard on HIV and AIDS, the first international human rights instrument to focus specifically on the issue in the world of work. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Jun 10 | French strike over pension reform set to disrupt travel and schools -- France faces transport, school and industrial chaos tomorrow after unions called for a national downing of tools in protest at pension reforms. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Jun 10 | Strikes halt work at Toyota and Honda plants in China -- A Toyota plant in Guangdong province has stood idle since Tuesday after workers at a nearby parts supplier, Denso, walked out the day before. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jun 10 | ‘Protect labour rights in North, East’ -- Representatives of labour unions in the tripartite National Labour Advisory Council (NLAC) say they are concerned that labour rights could be prone to violations as Sri Lanka pushes to attract investors and industrialists to the North and East. They hope to raise this issue with the NLAC before long. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jun 10 | Workers' Unions Urged To Reject Labour Law Amendments -- SHAH ALAM, June 20 (Bernama) -- Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) president Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud has called on all trade unions in the country to reject the proposed amendments to the Labour Law 2010 by the Ministry of Human Resources, which is claimed to oppress the workers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jun 10 | Metalworkers in the South Asia region commit to improved communications -- INDIA: Participants at the IMF South Asia Regional Communicators' Forum agreed on a common need to share information and develop a regional communication system. Such a network will assist workers in their joint struggles, particularly on issues of organizing, industrial disputes, trade, employment and development and the strong and growing presence of multinationals in the region. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Jun 10 | ILO Conference, Geneva -- I have the pleasure to address the conference on behalf the British Trades Union Congress and British workers. ( http://www.tuc.org.uk/international/tuc-18106-f0.cfm ) |
| 18 Jun 10 | Canada says ready to end any strike by Jazz pilots -- June 17 (Reuters) - The Canadian government is ready to introduce back-to-work legislation in case of a strike by pilots at Jazz Air Income Fund (JAZ_u.TO), Labour Minister Lisa Raitt said on Thursday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Jun 10 | Garment workers plan to strike for higher pay -- A TRADE union representing more than 80,000 garment workers plans to hold a three-day strike next month to demand a 40 percent increase in the minimum wage, despite pleas from the Ministry of Labour that it await the outcome of pending negotiations. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Jun 10 | 2,000 pilots on strike in Sweden, some 500 flights and 23,000 passengers affected -- STOCKHOLM — Union officials say some 2,000 pilots have gone on strike in Sweden, stalling almost all domestic flights and affecting around 23,000 passengers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Jun 10 | Tanzania Workers Suspend Strike, Expect Minimum Wage Hike-Union -- Tanzania's Trade Union Congress of Tanzania has suspended nationwide strike action, which had been slated to start over the weekend, having been given assurances that the minimum wage will be increased, a union official said Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Jun 10 | Saudi investor gets jail time for violating workers' rights -- An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a Saudi Arabian investor to two years in prison after he was found guilty of violating workers' rights in one of his factories in the Nile Delta city of Tanta. The ruling represents the first time for a foreign investor to be convicted by an Egyptian court since Egypt launched its privatization process in the early 1990s. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Jun 10 | Drummond coal workers in Colombia avoid strike -- * Drummond deal was for wage increases above inflation * Union ready to talk to Glencore over separate strike (Adds comment by company) ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Jun 10 | Hunger strike by non-clinical workers turns violent -- MANDYA: The indefinite hunger strike by the members of the district non-clinical workers union attached to the Mandya Institute of Medical Scinces (MIMS) demanding reinstatement of dismissed workers turned violent on Tuesday with police caning the protesters and arresting around 50 persons. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Jun 10 | Drummond coal workers in Colombia avoid strike-union -- * Drummond deal was for wage increases above inflation * Union ready to talk to Glencore over separate strike (Adds details of deal, another strike) ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Jun 10 | Honda says troubled China plant up and running -- TOKYO: Operations at a Honda parts factory in southern China returned to normal on Tuesday after nearly a week of disruption over a pay dispute, the company said, vowing to continue talks with dissatisfied workers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jun 10 | SFF may close cutting plant -- Many of the 135 meat workers who would lose their jobs with the expected closure of Silver Fern Farms Canterbury lamb cutting plant in Christchurch, worked only six weeks this season. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jun 10 | Norway: Dockers to blockade Israeli ships -- Reports are beginning to come in of one of the first examples of a trade union responding to the call by some Palestinian unions (and the World Federation of Trade Unions) to refuse to load and unload Israeli ships. Norwegian dockers seem to be among the very first to heed this call. (There are also reports that Swedish dock workers are blockading Israeli ships starting this week.) ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jun 10 | Prison workers' union leader shot dead in Colombia -- The TUC has protested yet again at another killing of a trade unionist in Colombia. Hernán Abdiel Ordoñez Dorado, treasurer of the executive board of the prison workers' union ASEINPEC in Cali was shot dead by assailants travelling by motorbike. He had been involved in denouncing alleged acts of corruption by top prison officers at the Women's Prison. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jun 10 | Prison workers' union leader shot dead in Colombia -- The TUC has protested yet again at another killing of a trade unionist in Colombia. Hernán Abdiel Ordoñez Dorado, treasurer of the executive board of the prison workers' union ASEINPEC in Cali was shot dead by assailants travelling by motorbike. He had been involved in denouncing alleged acts of corruption by top prison officers at the Women's Prison. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jun 10 | Prison workers' union leader shot dead in Colombia -- The TUC has protested yet again at another killing of a trade unionist in Colombia. Hernán Abdiel Ordoñez Dorado, treasurer of the executive board of the prison workers' union ASEINPEC in Cali was shot dead by assailants travelling by motorbike. He had been involved in denouncing alleged acts of corruption by top prison officers at the Women's Prison. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Jun 10 | UNRWA workers end strike -- Nablus – Ma'an – The Union of Arab Workers for UNRWA in the West Bank announced Saturday that strike action would end after disputed issues were settled with the administration. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Jun 10 | In China, Unlikely Labor Leader Just Wanted a Middle-Class Life -- SHANGHAI — Tan Guocheng is hardly a self-styled labor leader. Age 23 and introverted, he grew up among rice paddies and orange groves far from China’s big factory towns. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Jun 10 | 40 RMG workers hurt in Ashulia clash -- At least 40 workers were injured Sunday morning in a clash with law enforcers in Savar, police said, after around 8,000 employees of several ready-made garment factories demonstrated demanding pay hike. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Jun 10 | Honda China Workers Strike Another Parts Plant -- Honda had barely resumed production at its four assembly plants in China following the end of the victorious workers’ strike in Foshan, when a second Honda parts plant went on strike in the same city. On 7 June twenty workers staged a demonstration at the entrance to the Foshan Fengfu Autoparts plant (producing exhaust systems for Guangqi Honda Automobile), and by evening 250 of the 300 front line production workers had joined the strike. The strikers are demanding higher wages, less strenuous working hours, and the right to elect their own trade union chairperson. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Jun 10 | ArcelorMittal workers vote to strike in Algeria -- ALGIERS - Workers at the ArcelorMittal steelworks in Annaba, northeast Algeria, voted Thursday to go on an unlimited strike from June 20 to back a pay claim, a union official said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Jun 10 | Spain Hit by Strike Over Austerity Measures -- MADRID — Spanish public workers went on strike on Tuesday against a cut in their wages in what could be the first of several union-led protests against the government’s latest austerity measures. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Jun 10 | South African unions use World Cup as wage tool -- (Reuters) - South Africa's labor unions are using the hosting of the World Cup as a bargaining tool to press for above-inflation pay rises that could undermine the economy's recovery from a sharp downturn. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Jun 10 | Finnish Steelmaker to Create over 100 Jobs -- Finnish steelmaker Outokumpu plans to create around 120 jobs by doubling its ferrochrome production capacity in the northern towns of Tornio and Kemi. The investment will cost 440 million euros. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Jun 10 | Hyundai Motor India workers call off strike -- The three-day strike at Hyundai Motor India Ltd's plant near here was called off Wednesday following an agreement between the company management and the striking employees union. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Jun 10 | The British School Violets ILO Convention 183 -- June 1 -A British woman teaching at The British School (BS), school for children of British citizens, in Kathmandu lost her job after informing the school management of being pregnant. ( http://www.gefont.org/activity_detail.php?flag=3&id=629 ) |
| 09 Jun 10 | Hyundai calls strike illegal, 170 workers arrested -- Hyundai employees have been on strike since Sunday and production at Hyundai's Chennai plant has been stopped. Nearly 170 striking employees have been arrested on Tuesday, with the strike being termed illegal. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Jun 10 | Mexican federal police move in on strikers in Cananea -- MEXICO: IMF has received reports that federal and state forces arrived in Cananea on Sunday night, June 6, to execute arrest warrants against union leaders the National Miners' and Metalworkers' Union of Mexico (SNTMMSRM) at the Cananea copper mine in Sonora, Mexico, ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Jun 10 | Metalworker unions agree to cuts to save jobs at Opel -- EUROPE: Unions agreed to waive one-time payments, postpone a planned 2.7 per cent salary increase, and reduce Christmas and vacation bonuses by 50 per cent for two years in return for job security and the long-term prosperity of General Motors' European operations. ( http://www.imfmetal.org/index.cfm?c=23257&l=2 ) |
| 07 Jun 10 | Worker Suicides At Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China — -- More than a dozen young workers at the giant (300,000-worker) Foxconn electronics plant in Shenzhen, China have attempted suicide since January 1st with 10 confirmed deaths and at least three workers seriously disabled for life. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Jun 10 | Spain's labor reform could sideline unions: report -- (Reuters) - Spain may make it easier for companies to bypass unions to lower workers' pay and conditions if they can prove they are in financial difficulty, El Mundo newspaper reported on Sunday, citing government sources. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Jun 10 | ILO warns of the risk of a jeopardized recovery -- ILO Director-General in his annual report at the International Labour Conference warns that pressure from financial markets can jeopardize recovery: domestic workers, HIV/AIDS, employment and rights at work all on the Conference agenda. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Jun 10 | Tenaris shareholders called to account for workers' health and safety -- Tenaris Workers' World Council got a minute of silence onto the company's June 2 AGM agenda, in remembrance of the death of Argentinean worker Rodrigo Lopez Amarilla, while also demanding a separate meeting with management to discuss Tenaris' global health and safety policy. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Jun 10 | Strike at Honda in China ends with a 24% wage rise -- CHINA: Production restarted at a Honda auto parts factory in China on June 3 after the company offered a 24 per cent pay rise to its striking workers. Around 1,900 workers at the plant in Foshan, China began industrial action on May 21demanding an increase in wages. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Jun 10 | Workers’ group backs P75 wage hike in Metro -- MANILA, Philippines—A labor group Wednesday called on the Metro Manila Regional Wages and Tripartite Productivity Board (RWTPB) to “break tradition and expectations” by granting a P75-minimum wage hike for all workers in the region. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Jun 10 | Μedia strike on Thu. -- A nationwide media strike has been called for Thursday, in protest to the changes to the social security system being advanced by the government and in demand of the safeguarding of labor rights and the signing of "dignified" collective labor agreements. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Jun 10 | Working Australians get a $26 a week dividend for end of WorkChoices; pay rise welcomed by unions -- Today’s pay decision from Fair Work Australia for 1.4 million award-dependent workers breaks the drought after a wage freeze of almost two years under the Howard Government’s wage-setting tribunal. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Jun 10 | BA cabin crew strike – day 14 -- BA is now using smaller aircraft, which are allowed to fly with far fewer crew, in order to increase the number of departures today. A319 planes normally take 120 passengers. However, if they have 95 passengers or fewer, they need only 2 crew. BA has been sending A319s out with only 2 crew because they have fewer passengers on board than normal. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Jun 10 | Tourism workers want better pay -- The union says that the standardized wage is crucial for workers, given that tourism was the main source of income on the resort island. Union head Putu Satyawira said that since tourism was the breadwinning sector in the island, workers and related stakeholders had the potential to have higher spending in the market. ( Laborstart ) |
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