| 28 Nov 11 | YRT Strike Turns to War -- Striking YRT workers descended on Finch subway station in force Thursday, bringing a dramatic end to five weeks of union policy that avoided putting strikers on picket lines. York Region matched the unions with strong reversals of their own, moving away from a stance of calmer neutrality and vocally condemning union policies as the YRT rerouted bus lines, trying to negate the impact of the pickets. The day would later find York Region Tory MPPs venting their own frustrations, calling out York Region Council on their actions in the strike during a failed bid to enact back-to-work legislation at Queen’s Park. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Nov 11 | Labor woes send shudder through Beijing -- China's recent economic downturn is spurring a new wave of worker strikes, which experts say are the only effective channel for them to air their grievances. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Nov 11 | Pay raise for garment workers -- About 400,000 garment and footwear makers will get a US$5 a month raise starting in January, and the factories that employ them will receive a two-year tax holiday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Nov 11 | Bulgarian rail staff strike to end cuts -- Organised workers paralysed Bulgaria's train network for eight hours today in a bid to scotch government plans to lay off 2,000 state rail staff and impose a pay freeze on the remaining 11,000 employees. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Nov 11 | China Workers Strike at Companies That Make IBM Parts, Lingerie -- Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Thousands of workers in southern China went on strike in the last week to demand higher pay and better treatment, disrupting work at companies including one that supplies equipment to International Business Machines Corp. ( Laborstart ) |
| 25 Nov 11 | Four years to the day Australian workers voted out WorkChoices, Liberals still want it back -- On the fourth anniversary of the rejection of the Howard Government’s WorkChoices at the 2007 election, the Liberal Party has confirmed it is clinging to its ambition to return to those dark days. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Nov 11 | Greek workers to hold Dec. 1 general strike -- (AP) ATHENS, Greece — Greek unions will kick off the month of December with a 24-hour general strike — the first major walkout since the appointment of an interim coalition government charged with saving Greece from bankruptcy. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Nov 11 | EU must act now on labour rights in Georgia -- 22 November 2011: The ITUC has applauded the decision by the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to examine whether Georgia should continue to receive US trade preferences in view of the poor labour rights record of President Saakashvili’s government. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Nov 11 | Pay cuts, job insecurity to stoke Portugal strike -- * Strike seen more powerful than a year ago * Portugal performs austerity under EU/IMF bailout * Shipbuilders' woes in Viana add to austerity pain ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Nov 11 | Thousands of Workers Strike in Dongguan: New Balance, Yucheng Shoe Factory Should Take Responsibility -- In Huangjiang Township, near Dongguan in Guangdong province China, over 7,000 workers walked off the job at the Yucheng factory, owned by a Taiwanese investment firm. They then surrounded the factory and blockaded the town’s main road in the largest protest against a Taiwanese company in 2011. During the protest, dozens of workers were injured in clashes with police and public security personnel. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Nov 11 | Bulgarian railway workers set for all-out strike -- Railway workers in Bulgaria will embark on indefinite strike action next week in protest over planned restructuring, which is set to see more than 2000 jobs axed. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Nov 11 | Redefining the Union Boss -- NOT long ago, truckers pulled off highways across America and tuned in to someone whose CB handle was “Troublemaker.” ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Nov 11 | Labor Protest on the New Draft Proposals to the Labor Law -- On November 20, 3000 workers staged a sit-in by the gates of the Iranian parliament to protest the proposed new changes to the labor law. The demonstration called by the “Labor House” was used by a large number of labor protesters to show their discontent with the proposed changes to the law set to be finalized on November 21 between the “management and labor representatives”. The “final draft” is to be heading to the parliament next. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Nov 11 | Qatar: No World Cup without labour rights. -- 17 November 2011: The ITUC, the Building and Wood Workers International and the Swiss Union Unia met with FIFA General Secretary Jerome Valcke at FIFA headquarters today, to inform him that unless Qatar upholds labour rights, the international trade union movement will campaign against the 2022 World Cup being held there. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Nov 11 | ILO Condemns Fiji Junta over Labour Rights -- 18 November 2011: The UN’s International Labour Organisation has issued a strong condemnation of Fiji’s military Junta over severe violations of labour rights. The ILO’s Committee on Freedom of Association described the situation there as “extremely serious” and requiring urgent attention. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Nov 11 | Ex-rail workers fear pay has left station -- Representatives of 503 former railway workers protested outside the Ministry of Transportation in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding the government pay them outstanding salaries ranging from US$2,500 to $5,000 per person. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Nov 11 | Warning strikes in German steelworks -- GERMANY: Other demands are that trainees are given permanent status, and that older employees are offered to work part time. The employers have so far refused to make a proposal. Negotiations will continue November 21 in Düsseldorf. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Nov 11 | Seoul-Incheon bus drivers agree to end strike -- A labor dispute at a bus company ended late Tuesday evening following a strike by drivers that lasted 37 days. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Nov 11 | Workers at Pepsi bottling plants in China protest takeover -- Several thousand workers in at least five Chinese cities have staged a coordinated protest against the takeover of PepsiCo’s bottling plants in the mainland by Taiwanese food and beverage conglomerate Tingyi Holdings. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Nov 11 | ILO Upholds TWU Complaint, Finds NY Strike Ban Violates Workers’ Human Rights -- James C. Little, President of the Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO (TWU), announced today that the Committee on Freedom of Association of the International Labor Organization (ILO) has found that the New York law banning and penalizing public worker strikes violates fundamental workers’ rights protected by international law. This decision upholds a complaint filed in 2009 by Little and former Local 100 President (now International Vice President) Roger Toussaint. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Nov 11 | Robben Island Museum strikers appeal to tourists -- The workers, who are members of the National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu), are demanding a R2000 wage increase, and the management is offering 6%. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Nov 11 | French gas, power sector to strike on Nov. 17-union -- "The union is calling for a strike between 0200 GMT and 2200 GMT on Thursday," the spokesman said. "Power capacity cuts may take place but we are not able to give a precise estimate," he added. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Nov 11 | Wage Talks Begin Again Tuesday in Grasberg Mine Strike; ICEM Calls on Affiliates to Assist -- The PT Freeport Indonesia Workers’ Union of the Chemical, Energy, Mine Workers Union (CEMWU), or SP KEP SPSI, will re-enter wage negotiations with Freeport-McMoRan’s Indonesian subsidiary tomorrow, 15 November, in hopes of narrowing a pay divide that has created a two-month strike at the world’s largest recoverable gold and copper deposits. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Nov 11 | Govt Says Striking Freeport Workers Demanding Too Much -- The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry says Freeport Indonesia’s union workers should be more reasonable in their demand for a raise. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Nov 11 | Jobs victory for BMW workers in the US -- The jobs of some 70 workers at a BMW parts distribution centre in the US have been saved after a new agreement between the Teamsters union and the company was brokered. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Nov 11 | Two-day union negotiation wins protection for Indian workers -- Workers at a container freight station (CFS) outside the International Container Transshipment Terminal (ICTT) at Vallarpadam in Cochin, India, have won increased security and protection from abuse following two days of fraught negotiation between their union and management. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Nov 11 | Striking Freeport Employees Lower Wage Increase Demands -- Striking workers employed by Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold’s subsidiary in Papua have dropped their minimum wage increase demands from $7.50 to $4 an hour, the All Indonesian Workers Union said on Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Nov 11 | Strike to Halt All Bulgarian Trains on November 24 -- Workers of the Bulgarian State-owned Railways, BDZ Holding, are starting an effective, nation-wide strike on November 24. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Nov 11 | City workers say 'wealth gap too wide' -- The St Paul's Institute report, Value and Values: Perceptions of Ethics in the City Today, said 75% of respondents thought the wealth divide was too big. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Nov 11 | Chilean actors union plans strike for Monday -- The Chilean television actors association, Chileactores, is planning to go on strike, beginning Monday, Nov. 7, after a meeting in court between Chilean actors and television executives ended in a deadlock Thursday. Twelve-hundred members of the union are prepared to participate in the strike in an effort to receive payment for the rebroadcasting of shows. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Nov 11 | Bulgarian Railways to Go on Strike against Cuts -- Earlier announcements that Bulgarian State Railways workers are going on a national strike have been confirmed, with a date for the strike to be set Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Nov 11 | General strike begins, bringing Israel to a halt -- The last-minute meeting between Ofer Eini, the head of the Histadrut Labor Federation and representatives of the finance ministry ended on Sunday night with no resolution, paving the way for a general strike on Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Nov 11 | Staff union defers strike after PCMC chief calls talks -- PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Mahanagarpalika Karmachari Mahasangh (employees union federation in the municipal corporation) has deferred its proposed strike that was scheduled to begin from Wednesday. The decision was announced after municipal commissioner Ashish Sharma invited the federation for talks on Friday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Nov 11 | Finnish union threatens to expand strike to Nokia -- HELSINKI Nov 2 (Reuters) - A Finnish whitecollar workers' union said on Wednesday it may expand an ongoing strike next week to include maker Nokia , a move that could slow operations at the Finnish mobile phone company. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 Nov 11 | BA province teachers ratify 48-hour strike -- Members of the Buenos Aires Teachers’ Union (Udocba) confirmed the strike to be held on Thursday and Friday to claim for a 3,100 pesos minimum wage and the renewal of wage talks, among other measures. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Nov 11 | Air France cancels flights as five-day strike hits -- PARIS (Reuters) - Air France canceled about one in five flights and warned of wider disruption as a five-day strike by flight attendants over employment terms began on Saturday, in the middle of a busy holiday weekend. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Nov 11 | ILO: World economy on verge of new jobs recession -- It will take at least five years for employment in advanced economies to return to pre-crisis levels, it said. ( Laborstart ) |
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