| 31 Jul 09 | SACTWU strike imminent -- The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union has declared a national wage dispute against clothing industry employers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 31 Jul 09 | Ashok Leyland workers’ strike -- HOSUR: About 500 employees in the Ashok Leyland Plant I in Hosur observed a sit-in strike on Thursday to protest against the management’s move to transfer 353 employees to Plant II in Hosur which, the workers’ unions alleged, violated an agreement signed by the management and the unions two-and-a-half months ago. The strike was led by a group of employees belonging to CITU, Labour Front and AIADMK labour unions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 31 Jul 09 | ILO meet in June next to debate plight of domestic workers -- Bangalore: The 99th conference of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), scheduled for June 2010, will debate the plight of domestic workers and set standards on their entitlement to decent work conditions and pay. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jul 09 | Unions welcome Government pledge to create 50,000 green jobs, apprentices and trainees -- The commitment from the Federal Government today to create new 50,000 green jobs and training places is a positive response to both the impact of the global economic crisis and the challenge of climate change that will provide good job opportunities for working Australians, particularly young people, says the ACTU. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jul 09 | Can Labor Get Out of This Mess? (Part One) -- For anyone who loves the labor movement, it’s not unreasonable today to ask whether we’ve lost our way. California’s huge healthcare local is in trusteeship, its leading organizing drive in a shambles. SEIU’s international is at war with its own members, and now with UNITE HERE, whose merger of garment and hotel workers is unraveling. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jul 09 | AFL-CIO Executive Council Calls for Round 2 of Economic Recovery -- The nation's working families and the economy desperrately need a second in stallment on the Obama administration’s economic recovery plan. That plan, says the AFL-CIO Executive Council, ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jul 09 | South Africa strike disrupts public services -- Thousands of South African council workers went on strike on Monday to press for wage hikes, disrupting public services in Africa's biggest economy and piling political pressure on new President Jacob Zuma. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jul 09 | China Labour Watch: labor violations,bogus standards in Wal-Mart's Chinese Supply chain -- The China-U.S. Economic and Strategic Dialogue in Washington will focus on economic, environmental and security cooperation. The human rights group China Labor Watch is calling on senior officials of both governments to encourage multinational companies to improve labor conditions and promote effective implementation of China’s Labor Contract Law. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jul 09 | Iraqi Oil Workers Struggle for Trade Union Rights -- Negotiations are presently taking place between the ICEM-affiliated, Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU) and the Iraqi Drilling Company, following demonstrations and a workplace strike 24 June, 2009. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jul 09 | Steel workers clash with riot police -- CHINA HAS seen several serious disturbances this weekend as people take to the streets to express their anger at perceived corruption and unfair takeovers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jul 09 | Unions push for action on job security, support for families and better workplace rights -- Securing jobs, supporting families, protecting workplace rights and sustaining economic growth are at the heart of a new action plan for working Australians launched today by the ACTU. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Jul 09 | Unions seek end to pay row at bank -- Union leaders have offered to let industrial relations troubleshooters rule on a pay row at Bank of Ireland after disgruntled staff picketed the head office. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Jul 09 | Ssangyong strike devastating to businesses near vehicle factory -- PYEONGTAEK, Gyeonggi - Residents are feeling increasingly hard-pressed due to the lingering occupation at the Ssangyong plant here, and many are worried that the strike will deal a severe blow to the regional economy. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Jul 09 | Asia-Pacific Labor Union appreciates Antara for its working agreement -- Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Asia-Pacific Labor Union "UNI Asia and Pacific" has appreciated the National News Agency "Antara" and its employees union SPA which had signed a working agreement for employees` welfare. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Jul 09 | Turkey: Metal workers sacked for union membership -- A workers' struggle for their jobs and rights at Sinter Metal Đmalat Sanayi AŞ (located in the Dudullu Organized Industrial Zone, Turkey) has gone on for more than 6 months. An overwhelming majority of the 470 workers are members of Birlesik Metal-IS trade union. In December 2008, the company fired 350 workers including union leaders, not due to the economic crisis as the employer attempted to claim, ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jul 09 | Will the Crisis Reverse Global Migration? -- Migration has been one of the more important means of greater global integration, and, as the economic crisis has gripped the world, many have worried about its impact on such integration, especially falling remittances. A closer examination of the nature of migrant workers' role in the economy suggests more complex outcomes, with somewhat less of an impact than feared. ( The Nation ) |
| 21 Jul 09 | French workers win redundancy fight -- Staff who threatened to blow up machinery in a construction equipment plant in southwest France in a row over redundancy payments have had their severance money increased. ( http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/07/2009717174533293202.html ) |
| 20 Jul 09 | Labour ministry checks pulse of 'sick' diamond industry -- SURAT: The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment is carrying out a detailed survey of the diamond industry to assess the level of recovery. A five-member team from the ministry visited the diamond units across the city, which have claimed to be plodding their way back to recovery from recession. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Jul 09 | The hidden dangers of China’s construction sites -- It is well known that China’s construction sites are dangerous places; workers are all too often crushed by falling building materials and scaffolding, maimed by faulty machinery or fall to their deaths from heights. Indeed, just last month, eight workers died after a load collapsed at a construction site in Jiangsu. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Jul 09 | Laid-off French workers threaten to blow up factory for redundancy pay -- Outside the car parts factory, a group of burly petanque players laughed and joked as their metal boules clinked in the late afternoon sunshine. It would have been a pleasantly tranquil French scene - except for the improvised bomb that stood ready behind them. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Jul 09 | Deutsche Telekom to cut 3,000 jobs -- T-Systems, the business services arm of Deutsche Telekom has negotiated restructuring measures with its employee representative committee. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Jul 09 | Obama ‘Going to Bat’ for Unions in Trade Accords -- July 16 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk pledged the Obama administration will go “to bat for American workers” through greater protection of labor rights and more aggressive monitoring of overseas trade barriers. ( www.bloomberg.com ) |
| 17 Jul 09 | Action Ordered on Backlog of Migrant Worker Claims -- The Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration is conducting an evaluation of nine insurance companies after the Legal Aid Foundation accused them of owing over 16,000 migrant workers claims worth more than Rp 350 billion. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Jul 09 | BWI Submits Further Information to the ILO CFA on behalf of KFCITU -- On behalf BWI’s affiliate in South Korea, the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions (KFCITU), BWI submitted additional information to the ILO Complaint Case Number 2620 to address the repression faced by Remicon (ready-mixed cement) and Dump Truck Drivers workers. The additional information, which is a joint initiative between BWI and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), was handed directly to Kari Tapiola, ILO Executive Director for Standards and Principles. The ILO Complaint Case Number 2620 specifically focused on violations of ILO Conventions 87 (Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize Convention, 1948) and 98 (Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining Convention, 1949) against precarious workers, specifically “illegal dispatch” worker. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Jul 09 | Xing Tai garment workers protest factory conditions -- AROUND 350 garment factory workers gathered at the Xing Tai garment factory in Sen Sok district for the second day running Tuesday, protesting poor working conditions at the factory, which they claim include inadequate toilets and hot, windowless workspaces. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Jul 09 | S.Africa World Cup construction workers end strike -- Workers at South Africa's World Cup stadiums ended a strike Wednesday as bosses agreed to 12 percent pay rises, allowing FIFA to breathe a sigh of relief less than a year before the event. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 15 Jul 09 | Refuse workers: 8 weeks on strike -- A strike by 40 workers employed by Mr Binman, a waste collection company, in Carrick-on-Suiris entering its eighth week. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jul 09 | Govt rejects union data on jobless workers -- AN argument has blown up between the government and a leading trade union over the number of garment workers thought to have lost their jobs due to the economic crisis. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Jul 09 | Iraq's weakened unions fight foreign oil firms -- BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Unions are lobbying against Iraq's new oil contract with BP and China's CNPC, but the weakened labor movement may have a hard time thwarting deals desperately needed to revive a struggling oil sector. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Jul 09 | International migration and global union: Filipino nurses and care workers -- Public Services International Japan Council (PSI-JC) and Union Network International Japan Council (UNI-JC) organised a joint workshop on 25th June in Tokyo, Japan. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Jul 09 | Steelworkers reject Vale Inco offer with 85 per cent of vote -- Members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 will almost certainly set up picket lines at 12:01 a.m. Monday after 85 per cent of 2,600 members who cast ballots in ratification votes rejected Vale Inco's final contract offer. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Jul 09 | French workers threaten to blow up factory -- AFP - Workers at a bankrupt French car parts supplier are threatening to blow up their factory unless carmakers Renault and PSA-Peugeot pay them compensation, a union official said Sunday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Jul 09 | Worker dies after fall into Hershey’s-bound chocolate -- A temp worker at a Camden chocolate processing plant died this morning after he fell into an eight-foot vat that was mixing and melting chocolate to be used in Hershey's candy. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Jul 09 | Government, Malaysia Tighten Rules on Migrant Workers -- The government reached an agreement with Malaysia this week to set up a joint committee that will place stricter controls on migrant workers, a government official announced on Wednesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Jul 09 | Team urges ban on Marange diamonds -- HARARE – A delegation from the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) has called for a temporary ban on trade in diamonds from Zimbabwe’s Marange fields after unearthing gross human rights violations and other illegal activities at the notorious diamond fields. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Jul 09 | Jewish leadership , unions unite on Iran -- In an unusual partnership the Jewish community recently joined with Australia’s union movement to protest labour conditions in Iran. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Jul 09 | blame-unions-try-blaming-employers -- Further to my recent post about the current mini wave of industrial unrest in Canada, and who should wear the blame for it… ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Jul 09 | Dismal US job figures prompt stock selloff in shortened week -- New York - US stocks plunged Thursday after worse-than-expected monthly jobless figures suggested the country's worst recession since the 1930s is still going strong. ( The Nation ) |
| 02 Jul 09 | Unemployment drops slightly -- Germany’s unemployment rate in June fell slightly to 8.1 percent from 8.2 percent last month, but the slight improvement doesn’t mean the economy is out of troubled waters yet, analysts said on Tuesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Jul 09 | Hotel workers make history with new Fair Work Act -- Today at 9 am on Day One of the Fair Work ACT luxury hotel workers made history. They became the first workers to lodge applications with Fair Work Australia under Australia’s new industrial relations laws. The Fair Work Act came into effect today. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Jul 09 | British RMT union shows solidarity with Israeli and Palestinian transport workers -- The British National Union of Rail, Martine and Transport Workers union (RMT) is hosting an Israeli and a Palestinian delegate at its annual conference in the Isle of Man this week (28 June–3 July 2009). ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Jul 09 | IMF's Union Roadshow screened at film festival -- GENEVA: Union Roadshow: Organisning EPZ workers in Indonesia hit the big screen this year at the third annual Geneva Labour Film Shorts Festival. The film, produced by the International Metalworkers' Federation, was one of fourteen films selected to be shown. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Jul 09 | Minimum wage increased by 2.75% -- The minimum wage in Korea will be raised by 2.75 percent next year, the smallest wage increase in 11 years. ( Laborstart ) |
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