| 13 Jun 14 | Fiat agrees to return of 19 Pomigliano workers - union -- Rome, June 11 - Fiat has agreed to the return of 19 FIOM union members to its Pomigliano d'Arco factory, the trade union's Secretary-General Maurizio Landini said Wednesday. The group of workers was at the centre of a lengthy battle between Fiat and FIOM, the metalworkers' arm of CGIL, Italy's biggest trade-union confederation. The group will return to work over the coming weeks, said the union. "As far as we are concerned, we want to open a new chapter of industrial relations in all of the Fiat Group," said Landini. He added that various unions representing Fiat workers ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Jun 14 | Workers at Box Factory March for Wage Raise -- About 20 workers at a factory that makes cardboard boxes marched to the Japanese Embassy on Wednesday to ask for support in their efforts to secure seniority wages. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Jun 14 | Philippines: Stop union-busting at NXP Semiconductors -- Join the fight back against the union-busting aggression of the market leading NXP Semiconductors. The company’s illegal retaliation to their Philippine employees organizing and peacefully supporting the collective bargaining process was to sack all 24 union officers on 5 May. Among the dismissed by NXP Semiconductors in Cabuyao, Laguna is the president of the national metalworkers union MWAP, Brother Reden Alcantara. Management and government are colluding to bust the union, one of the few that successfully organizes workers in the country’s Free Trade Zones. The MWAP, IndustriALL Global Union and LabourStart jointly call on supporters to write to the NXP management and Philippine government authorities and urge NXP to: Reinstate the 24 union officials; Immediately resume CBA negotiations; Regularize contractual employees; and Respect workers’ rights. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Jun 14 | Rio airport workers strike ahead of World Cup -- Ground staff at Rio de Janeiro's airports plan to stage a 24-hour partial strike on Thursday, the day Brazil hosts the opening match of the football World Cup. ( www.aljazeera.com ) |
| 12 Jun 14 | Subway workers plan strike if safety complaints go unheard -- Buenos Aires Subway workers have announced their intention to strike this Thursday for two hours, closing ticket offices all day, if the City government does not respond tomorrow to their complaints over safety. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Jun 14 | Dismissed workers protest against Adidas ahead of World Cup -- As international sporting goods brand Adidas sponsors the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, hundreds of workers formerly employed by the company in Jakarta staged a demonstration on Wednesday demanding Adidas and its local contractor pay them severance owed since 2012. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Jun 14 | Strike continues as T&K rejects lunch allowance -- Union representatives stormed out of negotiations and continued a strike yesterday when managers at T&K Garment factory said workers would never receive the 2,000 riel ($0.50) daily lunch allowance allegedly promised to them. ( www.phnompenhpost.com ) |
| 11 Jun 14 | Employers Attack on ILO System and the Rule of Law -- Employer representatives at the International Labour Organisation have continued their attack on more than 50 years of legal jurisprudence, claiming that the right to strike does not exist in international law. ( Laborstart ) |
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