| 28 Aug 12 | Labor Rights Group Questions FLA Praise for Foxconn -- A Hong Kong-based labor rights group isn't ready to applaud Apple partner Foxconn for a complimentary labor practices report issued by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) earlier this week. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Aug 12 | Locked-Out Crystal Sugar Worker: 'We Didn't Do Anything to Deserve This' -- Michael Frank headed over to a rally in East Grand Forks, Minn., last night, one of many he’s taken part in over the past year. Frank, along with 1,300 other workers, was locked out of the American Crystal Sugar factory a year ago, and last night’s event was part of the workers’ ongoing efforts to urge the sugar beet processing company return to the bargaining table. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Aug 12 | What Does China’s Economic Slowdown Mean for Human Rights? -- China’s economic miracle is beginning to slow as the fallout from the global financial crisis takes hold, hitting exports and prompting a growing number of manufacturing firms to relocate elsewhere in search of cheaper labor. But if job demand slumps, the economy may not be the only thing to suffer, as there are fears that China’s already fragile labor rights record might worsen. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Aug 12 | Montenegro steel workers strike over low pay -- balkaninsight.com reported that workers at the plant in Turkish owned plant in Niksic, which was previously known as Zeljezara Niksic, said the main reason for the strike was low pay. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Aug 12 | Brazil's Foreign Ministry workers go on strike -- Employees at Itamaraty, Brazil's Foreign Ministry went on strike Wednesday in demand of salary hike after the Planning Ministry refused their initial demands, local media said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Aug 12 | Solidarity support needed for suspended ZESA workers -- 135 workers at Zimbabwe’s state owned utility, ZESA have been suspended indefinitely without pay and benefits on 17 July after a threatened strike on 10 July 2012. Hearings for these workers, which by law should take place within 14 days of their suspension, have been continually postponed and are now scheduled to begin on 16 August 2012. ( http://www.industriall-union.org ) |
| 21 Aug 12 | Robots take on skilled labour -- IN THE Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialised tools to assemble electric shavers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Aug 12 | Caterpillar outmuscles union to end Illinois strike in loss for organized labor -- Striking workers at the Caterpillar hydraulic parts factory in Joliet, Illinois will head back to work after voting to accept an agreement that includes a wage freeze, a pension freeze for those hired before May 2005 (two-thirds of the workers), and an increase in health care costs, the New York Times reported. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Aug 12 | Brunei garment sector hit by competition -- Garment manufacturers in countries such as Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia are able to offer more competitive prices due to lower labour costs. ( The Nation ) |
| 20 Aug 12 | Burger King protest over migrant workers' treatment -- The workers' union Unite has put the heat on fast-food giant Burger King in Auckland today after claims surfaced earlier this month the company was unfairly treating migrant workers and underpaying its staff. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Aug 12 | Lufthansa, Fraport sue union over February strikes -- FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German airline Lufthansa and airport operator Fraport are suing German trade union GdF over a series of strikes by airfield workers at Frankfurt airport in February, the companies said on Sunday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Aug 12 | Rail stop-work won't affect public: union -- Stop-work meetings will be held in Melbourne on Tuesday after five months of negotiations with Metro Trains. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Aug 12 | COSATU condemns violence at Lonmin and breakaway ‘union’ NATAWU -- A special meeting of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Congress of South African Trade Unions was today given a briefing by its affiliates NUM and SATAWU on serious developments within the trade union movement. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Aug 12 | Air industry trade union strikes in Moscow prohibited by court -- MOSCOW, August 16 - RAPSI. The court prohibited a trade union at the state-owned ATM Corporation from holding strikes due to security issues, the Prosecutor General's Office reported on Thursday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Aug 12 | IndustriALL takes de facto suspension of bargaining rights in Turkey to ILO -- IndustriALL Global Union has presented a formal complaint against the government of Turkey for violation of the ILO Convention on the Right to Organize and Collective Bargaining, 1949 (No. 98) over de facto suspension of the Right of Collective Bargaining in the country. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Aug 12 | Hyundai Strikers Demand End to the Graveyard Shift -- SEOUL—Moon Yong-moon is tapping the brakes on Hyundai Motor Co.'s global acceleration. The question now: Could the combative union boss's push to end night work bring the auto maker's global advance to a halt? ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Aug 12 | Trafficked fishermen released on ransom -- A group of eight Cambodians held for ransom on a Thai fishing boat were freed over the weekend after their families paid 1,000 baht (US$32) per person to a human trafficker in Thailand who is still holding another nine victims, victims and police said yesterday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Aug 12 | Central Qld smelter giant cuts 90 jobs -- Australia's largest aluminium smelter says the carbon tax is not to blame for job cuts at its central Queensland plant. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Aug 12 | Nepal women banned from Middle East over exploitation -- Common complaints include physical and sexual abuse, poor conditions and non-payment of salaries. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Aug 12 | Brazil's Central Bank Staff Goes On Strike -- The workers at Brazil's central bank are on strike today, demanding a 23 percent pay increase to compensate for inflation that's occurred since June 2008. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Aug 12 | RMG workers hold protests for wages, allowance -- Labour unrest continued in different apparel factories in Dhaka, Gazipur and Narayanganj on Thursday to push for the payment of their outstanding wages and festival allowance before Eid-ul-Fitr. Several hundred workers of a factory at Dhakeshwari in Shiddhirganj blocked the Narayanganj-Adamjee road and vandalised some vehicles as they found their factory closed without being paid wages and the festival allowance. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Aug 12 | Tough times trigger strikes -- The devaluation of the kwacha by 49 percent in May and the general hard economic environment have sparked a spate of strikes in companies and institutions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Aug 12 | United Steel Workers and California Labor Federation Stand Up for Colombian Unions and Peace -- North American unionists have taken a significant step forward in solidarity with Colombian unionists-one that raises intriguing possibilities for the development of a new kind of worker to worker internationalism. Both the United Steel Workers (USW) and the California Labor Federation (CLF) have spoken out on behalf of the the beleaguered peasant labor federation FENSUAGRO (the National Unitary Federation of Agricultural Unions), with special attention called to their role in the Patriotic March. The Patriotic March (Marcha Patriótica) is a new Colombian popular mobilization that advocates for a political solution to the country’s decades long armed and social conflict. It is not a single event, but an ongoing campaign. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Aug 12 | Swazi teachers striking ‘for democracy’ -- IN THE geography class at St Mark’s High School, boys play chess on a board scratched onto a workbench in one corner, while in another part of the school a girl knits a scarf while her friends talk. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Aug 12 | Top 5 Reasons Why Raising the Minimum Wage Is Good for You and Me -- In recent months, a number of states have again taken the lead on measures to raise the minimum wage. Massachusetts is moving toward a minimum of $10 per hour. Other measures are on the table in New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut and Missouri. Meanwhile Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, is pressing for the federal minimum wage to rise to $9.80 per hour by 2014. ( Laborstart ) |
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