| 27 Sep 11 | Honour for strikers raises questions -- St. John’s Antigua- Antigua Trades & Labour Union (AT&LU) has been warned by social commentator Arvel Grant that it might send the wrong message by honouring Emergency Medical Services workers who recently staged 16 days of industrial action. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Sep 11 | Pays delayed for American Samoa government workers -- Hundreds of American Samoa government employees who receive their pay by direct deposit are angry and frustrated because their paycheques are not in their bank accounts. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Sep 11 | AFL-CIO: No Colombia Trade Deal Until Violence Ends -- The violence against workers is continuing in Colombia despite the labor action plan that President Juan Manuel Santos agreed to in April. Until that violence ends, the United States should not approve the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Sep 11 | Maruti-Suzuki: The Realpolitik of Managerial Intransigence -- Can the Maruti management’s stubbornness be explained only by its unwillingness to allow workers to have their union? This seems doubtful. Unions in India in themselves do not pose such a grave threat for managements. There must be something more to it. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Sep 11 | Georgia – Striking Steelworkers Forced Back to Work by Police -- 16 September 2011: One hundred and fifty striking workers at the Hercules Steel plant in Kutaisi, Georgia, were forced to end their strike and return to work in a sudden raid by an overwhelming force of police yesterday. Fifty police vehicles, led by the local Governor, descended on the strikers and detained more than 40 of them for several hours. Managers then went to workers’ homes to threaten them, and police made several more workers sign statements that they would go back to wor ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Sep 11 | Fiji unions alarmed at US firm writing Fiji regime decrees -- The head of Fiji’s Trades Union Congress says the apparent drafting of an employment decree by a New York law firm at the request of an airline chief may be a first for Fiji. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Sep 11 | 95 percent of China’s gold mines violate dust emission safety standards - survey -- China’s top work safety watchdog has threatened to close down dangerously polluting gold mines after discovering that 95 percent of the mines it surveyed violated national safety standards regarding dust emissions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Sep 11 | AMWU members mount defence of wages -- AMWU members in the Department of Defence have forecast further industrial action across the country unless Department heads return to negotiations on a new workplace agreement. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Sep 11 | Maruti-Suzuki union leaders arrested after meeting with employer -- INDIA: Everything happened at the negotiation hall under the eyes of the Maruti-Suzuki management and representatives of the management-favoured union MUKU. The Haryana Labour Minister and labour Commissioner had left the hall, after which police entered and arrested leaders of the Maruti Suzuki Employees’ Union (MSEU). ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Sep 11 | Emergency workers’ strike ‘won’t affect essential services’ -- HUNDREDS of Joburg’s fire, ambulance and rescue workers were set to down tools today in protest against the acting head of the city’s Emergency Management Services (EMS). ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Sep 11 | Avalon staff on strike -- The cleaners, employed by Spotless, are taking industrial action after international terminal cleaning staff at Melbourne Airport received a pay rise, leaving a discrepancy in pay rates. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Sep 11 | Labour strike spreads to Maruti Suzuki's other factories -- GURGAON: Workers at three factories of two different companies of Suzuki in India have gone on strike this afternoon in support of their colleagues at Maruti Suzuki India's (MSI) Manesar plant, who are locked in a standoff with the management since August 29. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Sep 11 | Doctors begin full strike at 20 public hospitals -- CAIRO: About 1,500 doctors started Tuesday a full, open strike at 20 public hospitals nationwide until their demands are met, following a three-day partial strike. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Sep 11 | Unions campaign for marriage equality -- Eleven unions in NSW, representing close to 300,000 workers, have formed a Unions for Marriage Equality campaign, which may soon be joined by unions in other states. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Sep 11 | Teachers to strike -- Nine Trade Unions representing the teachers and school principals are to go for joint trade union action against the failure of the education authorities to resolve their salary anomalies and other issues. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Sep 11 | IG Metall Breaks New Ground with First Accord in German Solar Energy Sector -- A first-of-a-kind collective agreement took root in Germany’s solar energy manufacturing industry on 1 September. It was then that a labour contract took effect between IG Metall and three subsidiaries of Bosch in the state of Thuringia, making it the first collective agreement in Germany’s solar power industry. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Sep 11 | Unions condemn Fiji’s continued attack on workers’ rights -- Australian unions have condemned the Fiji military regime’s declaration of a draconian new decree as a blatant attack on workers’ rights. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Sep 11 | End Forced Labor in Vietnam -- In detention centers all over Vietnam, some 40,000 men, women, and children are being held against their will and forced to labor for the Vietnamese government. The victims are held without a hearing or a trial in a court of law in drug detention centers on suspicion of using illegal drugs. Most detainees are picked up in “street sweeps” or on the basis of a single positive urine test. Even those who enter the centers voluntarily in the hopes of getting help for addictions are not allowed to leave. Many are held for up to five years of forced labor, often to produce goods for private companies. ILRF is calling on the U.S. Trade Representative to denounce compulsory drug detention, and to demand that Vietnam permanently close the forced labor centers before rewarding Vietnam with the benefits of joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership [Free Trade] Agreement. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Sep 11 | Join the Campaign to Gain a Voice for T-Mobile Workers -- While T-Mobile’s parent company, Deutsche Telekom, respects workers’ right to bargain collectively in Germany, T-Mobile’s U.S. management has fought workers’ attempts to join the Communications Workers of America (CWA) with campaigns of delaying tactics and interference to intimidate workers. ( http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/09/07/join-the-campaign-to-gain-a-voice-for-t-mobile-workers/ ) |
| 09 Sep 11 | Hyatt Workers in Four Cities Launch Strikes -- n an emblematic fight over the direction of our economy, today thousands of Hyatt hotel workers in four cities nationwide--Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Honolulu--are launching week-long strikes. By striking, workers are standing up for decent jobs for themselves and their families, but they are also fighting for the right to take a stand against an abusive employer that is destroying good jobs in their North American hotels. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Sep 11 | EMS Keys Or Strike -- ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Just days after an end was seemingly put to the two-week-long industrial action by staff at the Emergency Medical Services (EMS), employees are threatening to renew the strike action. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Sep 11 | ITUC Calls on King of Swaziland to End Brutal Repression of Union Leaders and Workers -- The most recent in a series of attacks on democratic freedoms was the detention on 24 August of a number of young student union leaders after a protest about the closure of the University of Swaziland. ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 Sep 11 | Labor Day struggle for unions and Obama -- This Labor Day marks a rough year for the Obama administration and the labor union movement that had high hopes for him. ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 Sep 11 | Swaziland Workers to Strike, Despite Government Opposition -- The general secretary of Swaziland’s workers union says a planned week-long nationwide strike will begin today (Monday), despite government opposition. ( Laborstart ) |
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