| 26 Aug 10 | Medics demand equal bonuses in another day of protests -- Scores of doctors in Mahalla, Gharbiya staged a protest demanding the distribution of bonuses equal to those received by colleagues at other hospitals and health departments. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Aug 10 | UB Staff to go on strike -- University of Botswana academic and support staff have resolved to embark on strike action following a wage dispute that has been ongoing for nearly ten months. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Aug 10 | Ssangyong Motor union leaders remain in jail -- Following an appeal from the IMF affiliated KMWU the Seoul High Court released 21 union activists, three other union leaders are still in jail. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Aug 10 | Foreign diplomats retaliate after Mossad tries to break union strike -- An Israeli union representing diplomatic staff abroad has put a black ban on Mossad – the spy agency – because they effectively broke a strike and walked through a picket line of Department of Foreign Affairs staff to organize an overseas trip for Prime Minister Netanyahu – a task normally done by the union’s members. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Aug 10 | Women Garment Workers Strike for $72 per month -- Bangladesh’s 3.5 million apparel workers—who are mostly women—left their shops and took to the streets in August to demand that the minimum wage increase to $72 per month. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Aug 10 | Great advert for workers’ unity -- Workers Uniting is the global union created by the Unite union in Britain and the United Steelworkers in the United States and Canada. It has taken the unprecedented step of placing a full-page advertisement in a Bangladesh newspaper to support garment workers in their campaign to raise the minimum wage and secure the right to organise in a trade union in an effort to combat the race of US and European companies to the bottom. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Aug 10 | Unite's Derek Simpson plays down strikes threat -- Union leader Derek Simpson has played down the prospect of widespread strike action by unions this autumn. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Aug 10 | Argentine grain workers plan 48-hr strike over wages -- * Union says grain workers throughout country to down tools * Argentina is big exporter of soybeans, wheat and corn ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Aug 10 | Spanish air traffic controllers to go on strike -- MADRID — Spanish air traffic controllers voted Tuesday to strike over government changes to their work hours that reduce their overtime pay, a move that could disrupt flights at the peak of the tourist season. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Aug 10 | Disregarded by striking workers, China's trade unions rethink role in bid for relevance -- GUANGZHOU, China — The wave of strikes rippling through China's southern manufacturing heartland have forced the country's officially sanctioned unions to try something novel: speak up for workers or risk being permanently sidelined. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Aug 10 | Dhaka books 4,000 agitating garment workers -- Police in Bangladesh today booked nearly 4,000 garment sector workers protesting against a new wage structure announced last week, signalling tough measures to curb industrial violence that has caused large-scale destruction and halted production. Forty of the trade union leaders of the striking workers were named for the continuing unrest in the industrial suburb of Narayanganj where workers have barricaded the roads and engaged in pitched battles with the police, Star Online, the website of The Daily Star, said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Aug 10 | Pakistan Coke Workers Win Union Recognition and Permanent Jobs -- After a long and bittler struggle 187 workers at the Coke bottling plant in Multan, Pakistan, have won recognition of their People’s Employees’ Union. Their precarious jobs have been converted into permanent ones, directly employed by Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Ltd (a joint venture of the Coca-Cola Company and its Turkish-based bottling partner Coca-Cola Icecek). ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Aug 10 | Truckers Back to Work but Strike Plans Remain -- The Greek truckers debated yesterday on the week long strike which caused a huge fuel shortage at the peak of the tourist period-the summer. The breakthrough came late on Saturday when the government announced that they would implement the civil mobilization order, which the strikers ignored in case the strike continues. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Aug 10 | Bangladesh workers in pay protest -- Thousands of workers from the garment industry demonstrated on Monday near the Bangladeshi capital over a new minimum wage they call too low, defying government warnings against moves that might jeopardise the country's top export earner. ( Laborstart ) |
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