| 30 Jun 11 | Union overcoming barriers -- Contract workers hired by Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC) management set up a barbed-wire fence above the wall of the Yeongdo shipyard in Busasn where Kim Jin-suk, 51, a member of the Busan office Direction Committee for the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), and 12 HHIC union members occupy Crane No. 85 to continue their protest against massive layoffs, June 28. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jun 11 | China migrant unrest exposes generation faultline -- (Reuters) - In a backstreet pool hall in southern China's factory belt, young migrant workers gather around the tables, their eyes flitting between the worn green baize and the anti-riot police patrolling the grimy alleys. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jun 11 | Botswana public servants challenge labour law change -- Botswana's public sector union has taken the government to court to contest the classification of diamond cutters and teachers as essential workers who cannot strike, a spokesman said Tuesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jun 11 | Railway workers union postpones Wednesday strike -- Hungary's Railway Workers Union (VSz) has postponed a strike scheduled for June 29 to a later date, the union's strike committee said on Tuesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jun 11 | IMF-ICEM-ITGLWF merger discussed at AMLC in Korea -- KOREA: Metalworkers of the countries of the Asian and the Pacific region gathered together at the 4th Asian Metalworkers’ Liaison Conference (AMLC) on June 23 and 24 in Seoul, South Korea to share their experience and discuss concerns over the process of creation of a new International on the basis of three Global Union Federations including IMF, ICEM and ITGLWF, ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jun 11 | China's main union is yet to earn its job -- The workers' movement in China is at a critical juncture. As last year's wave of strikes and the recent migrant worker riots in Guangdong clearly demonstrate, workers are angry. They are demanding better pay and working conditions and an end to the social injustice and discrimination they see around them every day. But with no real trade union that can articulate those demands, workers are left with little option but to take to the streets. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jun 11 | Greece general strike: Unions act amid cuts debate -- Huge crowds of protesters are expected on the streets of Athens, while public transport is set to grind to a halt. ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13935400 ) |
| 28 Jun 11 | Bahrain medics return to court -- Abu Dhabi, Uae (CNN) -- More than two dozen medics accused of misdemeanors returned to court in Bahrain on Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jun 11 | Swaziland queried on freedom of association -- THE mysterious death of PUDEMO member Sipho Jele in police custody and ongoing police brutality was the subject of a heated discussion at the recent ILO conference held in Geneva, Switzerland. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Jun 11 | Families and Workers lose as Governments cut key services to pay off the banks -- Workers and their families across the globe are at the end of savage cuts to the public sector, as Governments across the globe again use the assets of people to fund mistakes made in the finance and banking sectors. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Jun 11 | ICEM Condemns Tactics of BHP Billiton, Mitsubishi in Australia Coal Talks -- The ICEM today condemned the bad-faith bargaining strategy of BHP Billiton-Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) in coal talks in Australia. At the same time, it pledged full support to Queensland miners, who today commence a second justified set at industrial actions inside BMA’s rich coking-coal mines of Queensland’s Bowen Basin. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Jun 11 | 18,800 maids fled last year -- A TOTAL of 18,716 domestic workers ran away from their employers' homes last year, the Dewan Rakyat was told yesterday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Jun 11 | Kenya: Hire Teachers Or Face Strike, Knut Tells State -- TEACHERS have told the government to allocate money for hiring teachers or prepare for a national strike in seven days. The Knut said it was disappointed by the 2011/2012 budget as it failed to allocate any money for the hiring of teachers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Jun 11 | IT workers at war for the Danish wage -- More than 300 workers picketed outside the Valby headquarters of IT company CSC Danmark last week, preventing many non-striking co-workers from coming to work. “What we’re fighting for is, in actuality, the Danish model – and everything we have achieved over history,” one female striker, who was part of the blockade to keep non-striking CSC employees from getting to their jobs, told Berlingske newspaper. “If our colleagues can’t see that, then we just have to help them understand.” ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Jun 11 | Still fighting for justice: Philippine hotel workers demand implementation of ILO judgement -- Union workers from the DUSIT Hotel in Manila who were dismissed en masse in 2002 during a dispute over renegotiation of their collective agreement are still fighting for justice. The workers are members of IUF affiliate NUHWRAIN. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Jun 11 | Colombia violating FTA labor agreements through union reprisals: US Union -- Vale Coal Colombia has been violating the Labor Action Plan between the United States and Colombia, a requisite of the pending free trade agreement, through threats and reprisals against unionists in the northern department of Cesar, according to U.S. trade union United Steelworkers (USW). ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Jun 11 | Chinese trainees lose 10,000 yuan security deposit after being forced home from Japan -- Thirteen Chinese workers employed as “trainees” at an automotive parts factory in Japan have been unable to recover the 10,000 yuan security deposit they each paid to the company that arranged their placement in Japan. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Jun 11 | Bahraini Union Leaders Called to Resign or Face Legal Action -- New York, Jun 20 2011 - The head of the United Nations labour agency today condemned a call by prominent business figures in Bahrain for trade union leaders in the Middle East nation to either resign or face legal action, describing the threat as an act of intimidation. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jun 11 | Dock Workers Union Gives KPA One Week Before Strike -- The Dock Workers Union has given the Kenya Ports Authority management one more week to clear the air on reports that there are more planned sackings in the organisation. DWU officials were yesterday engaged in meetings in preparation to level the ground on key issues of the planned strike. The strike was scheduled to start today, after the expiry of the 21-day notice they issued on May 26. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jun 11 | Express Solidarity to the Child Learn (Netherlands) Marathon. Childhood is meant to learn, not to earn!! -- The Child Learn Netherlands has been a strong pillar of support for the BWI Child Labour Project in the South Asia region - particularly in India. The Child Learn Netherlands directly supports seven schools and has contributed towards development of infrastructure and conducive learning environment for the erstwhile child labourers in India. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jun 11 | NGOs Concerned about Malaysian Government’s New Proposal to Legalize Irregular Migrants -- The Malaysian government has announced that it is considering an amnesty program legalize irregular migrant workers in an effort to make “Malaysia more attractive to investors by increasing the labour market.” Currently there are more than two million regular migrant workers mainly from Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and Burma and it is estimated that is an additional 2 million irregular migrant workers. Migrant workers are the predominant work force in the construction, plantation, agriculture, and wood processing and furniture industries and domestic work. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jun 11 | ACT Now: Support Imprisoned Vietnamese Migrant Workers in South Korea -- From March to April, 2011, ten Vietnamese migrant workers who had worked for Taehung Construction a subcontractor for Hyundai Construction in constructing a container wharf in Incheon, South Korea, were arrested. The prosecution has charged them with “obstruction of business, interfering with the regular business operations of the company, inciting group violence, and assault with a deadly weapon for two walk-outs. The work-outs were the result of long work hours, unjust working conditions and Taehung reneging components of the workers’ employment contract. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Jun 11 | Abbott must come clean on Liberals’ plans for Australians’ rights at work -- Tony Abbott’s ongoing silence about the new industrial relations laws introduced by the O’Farrell Government in New South Wales raises legitimate concerns that the Federal Liberal Party has similar plans to take away rights at work, say unions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Jun 11 | Air Algeria aircrafts grounded by strike -- ALGIERS - Air Algeria planes were grounded Wednesday at the international airport of Algiers Houari Boumediene after a strike call made by the aircrew national union. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Jun 11 | Biggest strike for 100 years – union chief -- The leader of the largest public sector union promises to mount the most sustained campaign of industrial action the country has seen since the general strike of 1926, vowing not to back down until the government has dropped its controversial pension changes. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jun 11 | Transport strike ban cites wrong precedent: lawyers -- Saturday’s decision by the Prague Municipal Court to cancel a nationwide strike by transport unions, forcing unions to reschedule Monday’s planned action to Thursday, albeit on a bigger scale, has highlighted the hazy character of Czech strike law. The main reason for the ruling was that the unions had not given the required three-day warning of the strike action. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jun 11 | Labour minister asks Air Canada, union to avert strike -- Labour Minister Lisa Raitt is urging Air Canada and the union representing its customer service and sales staff to reach an agreement soon. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jun 11 | Motshwarakgole defends strike suspension -- The decision by the leadership of the Botswana Federation of Public Service Unions (BOFEPUSU) to suspend the strike from today has been received with mixed feelings by members. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jun 11 | Greek Unions Plan 24-Hour Strike Against Austerity, Asset Sales -- Greece’s ports, banks, hospitals and state-run companies will be brought to a halt tomorrow as the two biggest labor unions strike to oppose Prime Minister George Papandreou’s budget cuts and asset sales. ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 Jun 11 | Bank of Israel: Minimum wage hike won't ease poverty -- Raising the minimum wage will not alleviate poverty, concludes the Bank of Israel in a new report. It estimates that the minimum wage revision will reduce the incidence of poverty by 0.1%. The Bank of Israel said, "In order to reduce poverty by a significant amount, improved compliance with the Minimum Wage Law is required." ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 Jun 11 | Maruti workers-mgmt talks to resume today -- Negotiations between workers of Maruti Suzuki’s plant in Manesar in Haryana who struck work yesterday and the management are expected to begin again tomorrow. ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 Jun 11 | Medinat Sadat factory strike sheds light on labor revolution -- Hundreds of sewing machines inside the Mega Textile Company S.S.C. stand idle. American label pants that usually sell for US$60 are piled on tables, unhemmed. Production at this clothing factory had been at a standstill for over a week. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Jun 11 | Botswana orders strikers back to work -- GABORONE — Botswana has ordered striking public service workers to return to the job, rejecting their demands to reinstate fired employees and scrap a "no work no pay" policy, an official said on Wednesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Jun 11 | Argentine teacher protests hits southern oil output -- * Industry source says protests picked up this week (Reuters) - Roadblock protests by striking Argentine teachers are causing increasing disruption to crude output at Patagonian oil fields operated by Argentina's YPF (YPFD.BA), industry sources said on Thursday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Jun 11 | Jailed Kazakh Trade Unionist Faces New Charge As Oil-Worker Strike Continues -- ALMATY/QARAZHANBAS, Kazakhstan -- A jailed Kazakh trade union activist, who was due to be released, has had a new criminal case launched against her, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Jun 11 | Chinese Workers Gain Strength In Cyberspace -- Chinese workers are harnessing the power of the country’s growing mobile Internet as an important tool for gaining greater collective bargaining rights, according to a recent report from the advocacy group China Labour Bulletin (CLB). ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Jun 11 | Oil workers face retribution -- KIRKUK - Unionists in Iraq's oil sector have been fined and days ago were relocated to remote locations as part of a campaign of seeming retaliation against their role in organizing workers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Jun 11 | Swaziland Teachers March to Embassy to Demand U.S. Freezes Leaders’ Assets -- Teachers in Swaziland, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarchy, protested in the capital, Mbabane, calling for the U.S. to freeze the assets of the country’s top leaders, said Muzi Mhlanga, general secretary of a teachers’ union. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Jun 11 | Thailand: Reinstate KFC union activists now! -- Three union activists have been dismissed from their employment at KFC in Thailand after they established a union and sought to bargain a collective agreement with KFC management. The Thai ministry of labour approved the registration of the Cuisine and Services Thailand Workers Union after over 200 workers signed and submitted a proposal seeking to negotiate with the company to improve wages and working conditions. Shortly after this, Apantree Charoensak, Krit Suang-aranan and Siwaporn Somjit , who were active as union representatives were terminated without notice or due process. ( http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/938 ) |
| 01 Jun 11 | FUTA to continue TU action -- Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) today said that a decision has been made to continue their current trade union action in whatever form possible and said that it will be taken in all the universities except for J’pura, Ruhuna and Wayamba. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Jun 11 | Agreement Fails to Shield Migrants: Activists -- The newly signed amendment to the Indonesia-Malaysia migrant workers agreement may give Indonesians working in the neighboring country more benefits, but labor activists said it still wasn’t enough when it comes to providing protection. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Jun 11 | ICEM Demands Release of Iraq Mechanics’ Union Leader -- The ICEM today vehemently condemned the deepening trade union repression occurring in Iraq. In recent days, a youth leader of the Mechanics’ and Printers’ Union of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) and three others were rounded up and presumably jailed, and Jamal Abdul-Jabbar, President of the Oil and Gas Workers’ Union of the GFIW in Kirkuk was forcibly transferred from his job at Northern Oil Company to a remote location due to his union activities. ( Laborstart ) |
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