| 27 Sep 12 | Seafarer & Docker ITF Activists Meet in Casablanca -- The MRT, is a groundbreaking three day activists’ forum being held 25 - 27, September 2012 to build links between dockers’ and seafarers’ unions and help shape the future of the ITF’s campaigning on flags of convenience. Alongside the over 200 activists and future union leaders from 50 countries attending there will be a host of virtual participants who can join the debates via the internet and live online reporting of the event at www.dockers-seafarers.org/event/maritime-roundtable. A new website – www.dockers-seafarers.org – has been created to support the event and build on its achievements. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Sep 12 | Greek workers begin general strike -- Greek workers have begun their first mass confrontation with Greece's three-month-old coalition government, grounding flights, disrupting local transport and shutting public service offices. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Sep 12 | Solidarity with DHL workers in Turkey as 100-day picket line protest is marked -- Posters put together by unionists from across the globe have arrived at the DHL picket line in Istanbul, Turkey; they are symbolic of the labour movement’s support for and solidarity with the workers there. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Sep 12 | Greek unions strike to save the country -- The Greek trade union confederations, GSEE and ADEDY, have called a general strike on Wednesday 26 September “to save the country, starting with its people.” They are urging the Greek government to change course and reject the dictates of the Troika: the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Sep 12 | Court bid to halt airport strikes -- Airport bosses are taking court action in a bid to stop rolling work stoppages that will cause travel chaos. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Sep 12 | Alexandria dock workers slapped with 3 yrs for inciting labour strike -- Alexandria's Court of Misdemeanours has sentenced five workers from the Alexandria Container & Cargo Handling Company to three years in jail each for inciting a labour strike, the Egyptian Democratic Labour Congress – comprised of over 271 independent labour unions – reported on Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Sep 12 | Protesters stage EU faint-ins -- In a year in which more than a thousand Cambodian garment factory workers have fainted on the job, activists across Europe are demonstrating for higher wages and better working conditions in the Kingdom’s factories. ( http://www.phnompenhpost.com ) |
| 25 Sep 12 | Crisis: greece gears up for a week of strikes against cuts -- (ANSAmed) - ATHENS - Greece gears up for a week of strikes against new austerity measures, enacted to appease the country's international creditors in exchange for a first tranche of 31.5 billion euros in aid. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Sep 12 | NEW IPHONE, OLD ABUSES: HAVE WORKING CONDITIONS AT FOXCONN IN CHINA IMPROVED? -- Whenever there are new products launched by Apple, consumers are thrilled. All over the world they queue up outside Apple stores in order to have their beloved products immediately. At the same time, workers are queuing up for the company bus and lining up to swipe their staff card at Foxconn, but without similar excitement. When the peak season comes, they are tied to the production lines with just 1 day off in 13 working days, or no rest day at all in a month, all to cope with the public demand for the new Apple products. It is sad to say that to some extent, workers also yearn for the peak season because their base pay is insufficient to meet their basic needs, especially for those who have to support their dependents. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Sep 12 | Cairo transport workers halt strike, for now -- Handful of striking bus depots return to work but remain sceptical over management promises to consider their demands for administration shake-up ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 Sep 12 | Greece: General strike with a silver lining - even the taxman's walked out -- If you wanted to get a hip replacement, file for divorce or pay your taxes in Greece this week, you were out of luck as unions staged a series of strikes in key services to protest against a new round of painful cuts being hammered out to secure the next round of eurozone bail-out cash. ( Laborstart ) |
| 19 Sep 12 | Pressure's on for living wage -- Whangarei community groups, workers' organisations and even the district council could be asked to become coalition partners in the Living Wage Aotearoa Campaign. ( Laborstart ) |
| 19 Sep 12 | Set minimum wage at RM900 for Sabah, S’wak: NGO -- PETALING JAYA (Sept 17, 2012): The RM900 minimum wage set by the government for Peninsular Malaysia should also be set for Sabah and Sarawak, said non-governmental organisation (NGO) Oppressed People Network (Jerit). ( http://www.thesundaily.my/news/492590 ) |
| 19 Sep 12 | Garment makers fight to survive -- A low-skilled workforce, import sanctions and comparatively unfavourable tax policies are blocking the development of Myanmar’s garment industry, members of the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association said recently. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Sep 12 | Samoa Ports Authority plans to lay off staff -- The Samoa Ports Authority is planning to lay off employees following an assessment that revealed the authority has brought in very little income since 2009. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Sep 12 | Garment workers demand reduction in working hours: Bangladesh -- Bangladesh police on Sunday fired rubber bullets and tear gas at tens of thousands of garment workers as they rioted in a key industrial area outside Dhaka, demanding a reduction in working hours. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Sep 12 | Crew secures over $100,000 in unpaid wages in Drogheda Port row -- It was a case of international solidarity in Drogheda port last week when SIPTU backed the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) in a demand that nine seafarers from Eastern Europe be paid $102,735 in wages due since May. The men, who are from The Ukraine, Russia and Lithuania made a distress call to the ITF, but the Dutch-Antilles registered vessel, the mv Julia, had set sail for Ireland before it could be boarded in Antwerp. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Sep 12 | Strike costs Petrotrin $600M; profits drop -- PETROTRIN president Khalid Hassanali, yesterday partially blamed a recent union shutdown of the State oil firm for $600 million in losses and a drop in the company’s net profits for this fiscal year to under $2 billion, compared to last year’s net profits of $2.5 billion. ( http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,166308.html ) |
| 17 Sep 12 | Uzbekistan raises wages for the poor -- Unskilled workers will from now on receive their wages not at the base rate but the first rate, although the government has not explained the difference between them. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Sep 12 | Unpaid workers cry factory foul -- About 500 workers at Sein-Atree, in Kampong Speu province’s Samrong Torng district, will march to the provincial labour department today to request intervention in a dispute yet to be solved after two days of striking. ( http://www.phnompenhpost.com ) |
| 14 Sep 12 | Strike Grounds Half of Lufthansa's Flights -- The latest in a series of cabin crew strikes forced German flagship airline Lufthansa to cancel about half of its flights on Friday, marking a "dark day" for customers, a spokesman said. But the bitter labor dispute may be resolved soon, with both the union and the airline signaling they are ready to resume talks. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Sep 12 | Analysis: Striking Chicago teachers take on national education reform -- (Reuters) - Chicago teachers walking picket lines on Monday, in a strike that has closed schools across the city, are taking on not just their combative mayor but a powerful education reform movement that is transforming public schools across the United States. ( http://www.reuters.com ) |
| 13 Sep 12 | Gold Fields suspends 15 000 striking workers -- Resources major Gold Fields has suspended nearly 15 000 employees for embarking on an unprotected strike from the start of the night shift at its KDC Gold Mine on the West Rand. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Sep 12 | iPhone manufacturer faces labor complaints -- BEIJING (AP) — The company that manufactures Apple's iPhones has responded to an accusation that vocational students are forced to work in its Chinese factories by saying Wednesday its agreement with their schools allows them to leave. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Sep 12 | Amnesty UK workers to strike for first time in over 20 years -- Employees of Amnesty International UK will be taking strike action on Wednesday 12 September to protest against the refusal of the organisation’s senior management to enter into meaningful negotiations over an ill-conceived cost cutting programme, including a significant number of redundancies. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Sep 12 | Chicago teachers strike for the first time in 25 years -- CHICAGO (AP) -- For the first time in a quarter century, Chicago teachers walked out of the classroom Monday, taking a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security to the streets of the nation's third-largest city - and to a national audience - less than a week after most schools opened for fall. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Sep 12 | Chicago teachers to strike after talks fail -- CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago teachers went on strike Monday for the first time in 25 years after their union and district officials failed to reach a contract agreement despite intense weekend negotiations that the union said were productive but still failed to adequately address issues such as job security and teacher evaluations. ( http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-talks-fail-030846765.html ) |
| 10 Sep 12 | Transit union takes strike vote this week -- The union representing B.C. Transit bus drivers, tradespeople and maintenance workers in Greater Victoria is planning a strike vote for Wednesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Sep 12 | South Africa miners to continue strike -- Striking workers at Lonmin's South African platinum mines where 44 died last month in a labour strife say they will not return to work until their demand for more pay is met, the leader of a key union said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 Sep 12 | Crisis deepens as vasity staff strike, doctors next -- Nairobi. Kenya was in a crisis on Thursday after 11,000 workers in public universities downed their tools in the latest case of labour unrest that has plunged the education and health sectors into turmoil ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Sep 12 | Who speaks for Egypt's workers? -- Egypt's January 25, 2011 revolution gave the country's workers a golden opportunity to press their agenda. Workers played a key role in the wave of societal unrest that led to Hosni Mubarak's downfall, and after the long-time president's departure many restrictions on political organization and dissent were relaxed. But workers have not been able to seize that opportunity to cohesively advance their demands. Instead, fragmentation has emerged as the dominant feature of post-Mubarak labor politics. Egyptian workers have struggled to find their own voice as they navigate the legacy of state control over labor organizations and a complicated new political situation. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Sep 12 | Keep Free Trade Fair -- The latest round of negotiations for Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) - a free trade agreement (FTA) between Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada , Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Peru, the USA and Vietnam – kicked off this week in Virginia, USA. ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 Sep 12 | Thousands of children work in African gold mines -- TENKOTO, Senegal — A reef of gold buried beneath this vast, parched grassland arcs across some of the world's poorest countries. Where the ore is rich, industrial mines carve it out. Where it is not, the poor sift the earth. ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 Sep 12 | Richard Trumka: 'We Love Our Country....We Built It' -- America needs good jobs and shared prosperity, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told delegates at the Democratic National Convention tonight. It’s abundantly clear the Romney-Ryan ticket is only offering prosperity for the rich and an economic nightmare for everyone else, whether it's cutting Medicare and Social Security, giving the rich more tax breaks or outsourcing America's jobs. “Prosperity requires democracy—starting with the essential right of everyone in this great country to a voice, both in the ballot box and in the workplace.” ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Sep 12 | Court extends order outlawing teachers’ strike -- NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept4 – The industrial Court on Tuesday extended orders suspending the ongoing teachers’ strike to Friday when a ruling is expected on the matter. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Sep 12 | Kraft Egypt sacks union leaders who called for company to obey the law! -- Kraft has sacked 5 members of the board of the newly-created independent union at the former Cadbury chocolate factory in Alexandria following a protest over the non-payment of a government-decreed social allowance. ( Laborstart ) |
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