| 30 Oct 09 | Trumka vows to maintain US union support for Israel -- The US trade union movement leadership has this week re-affirmed its complete opposition to any trade union campaigns to boycott Israel. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Oct 09 | More working women needed -- GETTING more women back to work is gaining urgency as Singapore aims to reduce its reliance on foreign workers, said National Trades Union Congress deputy secretary-general Halimah Yacob. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Oct 09 | Labor’s New Leader -- Richard Trumka—coal miner, lawyer and new president of the AFL-CIO—took the stage after his election at the federation’s Pittsburgh convention in mid-September to the strains of the defiant Tom Petty refrain, “I’m going to stand my ground, and I won’t back down.” Clearly, Trumka wanted to convey a new style of labor leadership, one tougher and more militant than that of the genial outgoing president John Sweeney. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Oct 09 | Trade unions seek revival of sick units -- TALCHER: In response to the call by central trade unions, hundreds of activists belonging to three major coal trade unions took out a motorcycle rally at Talcher coalfield today seeking fulfillment of their five-point charter of demands. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Oct 09 | Women workers are losing out: new global report on the gender gap is a wake up call for Australian employers, say unions -- Australian employers must do more to encourage women’s participation in the workforce and close the gender pay gap, following a major international report showing Australia is slipping further down world rankings on some critical indicators, say unions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Oct 09 | McDonald's worker dies of 'overwork': officials -- A store manager with hamburger chain McDonald's in Japan who died of a brain haemorrhage was a victim of "karoshi" or death by overwork, a regional labour office said Wednesday. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 28 Oct 09 | Hundreds of Freeport workers go on strike to lament shootings -- Hundreds of employees at PT Freeport Indonesia refused to resume work Monday in protest at the deteriorating security situation on road from Timika to Tembagapura in Papua. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Oct 09 | Sugar Union Leaders Sentenced to Prison in Iran - Act Now! -- In a drive to destroy the independent union established last year by workers at the giant Haft Tapeh plantation/refining sugar complex in southern Iran, a court on October 12 sentenced 6 union leaders to immediate prison terms on charges stemming from October 2007. Three leaders convicted for their union activity last year for "endangering national security" in connection with worker action in 2008 had their sentences overturned on appeal in September. Two union officers, president Ali Nejati and communications officer Reza Rakhshan, both of whom face lengthy prison sentences, were still awaiting the outcome of their appeal when the court in the city of Dezful sentenced the six leaders on the similar 2007 charges. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Oct 09 | Migrant Worker Activist Minod "Minu" Moktan Deported!! -- The South Korean government deported Minu (Minod Moktan) to Nepal at 5pm, Friday, October 23. Minu lived in South Korea for 18 years while working in factories, singing songs and working as a media activist at Migrant Worker's Television. Many friends, comrades and supporters of Minu wrote a petition for his release, held press conferences and demonstrations in order to prevent his deportation. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Oct 09 | ILO projects Mideast unemployment rate to range between 9 and 11 percent -- BEIRUT: The unemployment rate in the Middle East region is rising to between 9 and 11 percent this year, said the director general of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Juan Somavia on Monday, which he described as being “only the tip of the iceberg”. “A jobless recovery will not be sustainable; not socially, not economically, not politically,” said Somavia, adding that the central objective is a rapid recovery in employment, together with a basic social protecting floor that goes hand in hand with economic recovery. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Oct 09 | Rail workers strike, firefighters protest over Hungary budget cuts -- Budapest - Rail passengers were left stranded across Hungary on Monday morning after rail workers walked out for nine hours over cutbacks, while hundreds of uniformed firefighters demonstrated in front of parliament. Both protests were both sparked by planned cuts in the government's draft 2010 budget. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Oct 09 | O.W.T.U. Voice Concerns About The Living Conditions Of Chinese Labourers. -- The Oilfield Workers Trade Union wants the dismantling of camps which house Chinese labourers in the country. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Oct 09 | 200,000 may lose jobs after huge quake in Padang -- As well as displacing thousands of residents, last month's earthquake that devastated much of West Sumatra is likely to render many workers in the province jobless. ( http://www.thejakartapost.com ) |
| 19 Oct 09 | Stop repression of union rights in Mexico -- Please take a few minutes to voice your concerns over the Mexican government's heavy handed decision to send thousands of Federal Police to the Central Light and Power Company and announcing that the state-owned company was being liquidated and its 40,000 unionized workers dismissed. ( http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/labotz111009p.html ) |
| 19 Oct 09 | Railway Unions, Workers Picket PKP -- On Oct. 13, a few hundred unionists and workers picketed the headquarters of PKP Railways in Warsaw. PKP railways, the former Polish State Railways, was divided into many smaller units in 2001 as part of restructuring inspired by both the IMF and European Union. Restructuring, increased outsourcing and financial manipulation has lead to severe job loss in some of the units of the PKP Group, most notably in PKP Cargo. The protest was directed towards one of the entities in the PKP group, PKP-PLK which is responsible for rail-line management including the maintance of the lines, conducting trains, setting timetables and managing the railyards. ( Laborstart ) |
| 19 Oct 09 | Ssangyong unionist draws jail term for organizing violent protest -- (Yonhap) -- A mid-ranking official with Ssangyong Motor's labor union was sentenced to one and a half years in prison on Friday for masterminding a months-long demonstration that paralyzed South Korea's smallest automaker earlier this year. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Oct 09 | New assembly of Kraft Foods workers to unlock the conflict -- The workers’ union delegate Maria Rosario, told an Argentine news agency that in the workers’ assembly to be held today at 2 pm they would accept the proposal submitted by the Labor Ministry. ( Laborstart ) |
| 16 Oct 09 | Workers push for Fair Wages in Asian Garment Industry -- Workers in Asia, the United States, United Kingdom and throughout Europe are mobilizing to secure a living wage for garment workers in Asia. The Asia Floor Wage is focused on making sure that the more than 100 million mostly women workers in the Asian garment industry receive adequate wages for what they produce. ( AFL-CIO Blog News ) |
| 16 Oct 09 | On the Eve of the General Strike in Puerto Rico -- It's a very tense evening in Puerto Rico tonight--you can feel it in the streets and towns around the Island. Tomorrow the workers' movement and its allies will face a showdown with the Government police and paramilitary forces, as the general strike called to protest massive layoffs in the public service will begin in the early hours of the day. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Oct 09 | Airline employees plan nationwide trade union -- MUMBAI: Fresh from the success of two strikes by pilots of Jet Airways and Air India, the country’s 50,000 airline employees plan to form a nationwide trade union that will represent pilots, engineers, maintenance staff, cabin crew and ground handling staff. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Oct 09 | Tack Fat workers set to meet with officials -- A UNION representative from the Tack Fat garment factory said workers and factory management will meet with officials from the Ministry of Social Affairs on Monday to resolve a dispute stemming from the recent closure of the factory. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Oct 09 | Can Health-Care Workers Be Forced to Get Flu Shots? -- At Winthrop hospital on New York's Long Island, the signs are everywhere. They're posted at every nurses' station, papered above the security panels against which employees swipe their ID cards and even attached to paychecks. The notices are there to remind the hospital's staff — which includes everyone from the doctors and nurses who care for patients to the administrative, housekeeping and food-service personnel — that every employee must be vaccinated against both seasonal and H1N1 flu or face possible termination. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Oct 09 | Indonesian workers survive crisis in S. Korea -- Most of the 1,000 Indonesian workers in South Korea that had been retrenched due to the global economic crisis have managed to get new jobs in the country, said Korean ambassador to Indonesia on Wednesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Oct 09 | Employers Want Short-Term Recession Contracts -- The employers' organisation Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) is calling for unions to agree to short-term contracts in order to better react to the ups and downs of the current recession. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Oct 09 | Kraft: union leaders file injunctions to be allowed to return to Pacheco plant -- Three members of the food workers union, who are not allowed to enter Kraft Food's plant in General Pacheco, have filed legal injunctions requesting they be allowed to return to work and continue with their tasks as representatives of the workers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Oct 09 | Hyundai Union ‘Sick’ of Strikes May Curb Disputes on New Leader -- Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Hyundai Motor Co.’s Korean employees return to work today after electing a union leader committed to curbing strikes have that cost the automaker $9.9 billion in lost production since 1987. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Oct 09 | Workers ask for govt action -- REPRESENTATIVES of more than 1,000 Phnom Penh garment workers who claim they were unfairly sacked earlier this summer have urged the government to intervene and bring an end to the long-running dispute. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Oct 09 | Get the World to Work – Trade Unions Mobilise Around the Globe on 7 October, World Day for Decent Work -- Brussels, 7 October: Trade unions in more than 100 countries, from the eastern Pacific to the west coast of the Americas, are mobilising on 7 October to tackle the global economic and employment crisis and demand fundamental reform of the world economy. Organisations from more than 100 countries have already posted information on their events onto the special website ( http://www.ituc-csi.org/spip.php?article4408 ) |
| 05 Oct 09 | Cheese factory workers just want to do their jobs -- The Dairy Workers Union says that locked out workers at a Waikato cheese factory just want to return to work and have their jobs covered by a collective agreement, and are disappointed by the company’s latest sideshow – a restructuring proposal released late on Friday night. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Oct 09 | Prominent workers' rights activist attacked in Kazakhstan -- KAZAKHSTAN: Late in the evening of September 22, Ainur Kurmanov, a well known workers' rights activist and organizer, was viciously attacked by unknown thugs at the entrance to his home in the capital city, Almaty. He is in a hospital now, suffering from concussion and head wounds. He is badly bruised from head to toe and has a broken finger. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Oct 09 | Jamaica promises teachers $90M in back wages -- KINGSTON, Jamaica — The government of Jamaica has agreed to pay public school teachers more than $90 million in back wages over the next three years. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Oct 09 | Steelworkers members ratify three-year deal with Canadian Pacific -- MONTREAL — Local 1976 of the United Steelworkers union has ratified a three-year contract with Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (TSX:CP). ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Oct 09 | AFL-CIO: Young Workers Unite! -- At a noontime rally on September 22, the newly elected leadership of the AFL-CIO gathered on Wall Street to confront the briefcase-and-blackberry set with promises to "demand more accountability from our financial system." Richard Trumka, who was chosen to replace John Sweeney as president of the labor union federation at its recent convention in Pittsburgh, was joined on stage by new top officers Liz Shuler and Arlene Holt Baker, where they let the corporate elite know that Main Street no longer works for Wall Street. ( Laborstart ) |
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