| 29 Dec 09 | KT Corp unveils 6,000 job cuts -- KT Corp, South Korea's largest fixed-line telecommunications carrier, has unveiled its biggest job cuts yet, with 16 per cent of its workforce set to leave this week through an early retirement programme. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Dec 09 | Stranded Russian sailors go on hunger strike in Vietnam -- Russian sailors stuck in Vietnam went on a hunger strike on Monday demanding to be returned home and payment of salaries for the past eight months, an International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) inspector said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Dec 09 | MEXICAN ELECTRICAL WORKERS THREATEN STRIKE NEXT MONTH -- MEXICO, Dec 28 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) – The Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) is preparing for a national strike next month in opposition to the government’s labour policies. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Dec 09 | Union workers at Xstrata smelter in Chile to strike -- SANTIAGO, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Union workers at Chile's Altonorte copper smelter plan to strike and block roads on Monday after scrapping a final wage offer from owner global miner Xstrata (XTA.L), the union said on Sunday, although the company saw little immediate impact. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Dec 09 | Taxi strike over stabbing death -- Taxi drivers in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki were on strike until 14:00 on Saturday, in protest over the murder of a fellow taxi-driver in the region of Pylaia on Christmas Day. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 28 Dec 09 | Online protest campaign a success: Steelworkers -- More than 8,000 individual protests were sent to Vale's top executive as part of in an online campaign launched last month by LabourStart, the international trade union news service. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Dec 09 | Worker crushed to death in Tulkarem stone factory -- Tulkarem – Ma’an – A worker was killed on Sunday evening when a lifter collapsed on him in a stone factory in the village of Zeita, north of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Dec 09 | Enterprise threatens to take its business elsewhere after losing labour rights lawsuit in Shenzhen -- One of Shenzhen’s largest manufacturers has threatened not to hire any new workers in the city after a court ordered it to pay 800,000 yuan in compensation for nonpayment of statutory overtime and social insurance contributions for more than one hundred workers. ( Laborstart ) |
| 22 Dec 09 | Police Violence against Workers Seeking Their Rights -- The Human Rights Foundation Turkey holds the government responsible for the latest violence excesses against striking workers and union members. The foundation described the recent incidents as a "standstill of the law". ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Dec 09 | Migrant workers in S'pore celebrate International Migrants' Day -- SINGAPORE: More than 12,000 migrant workers got together to celebrate International Migrants' Day on Tuesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 18 Dec 09 | Coordinated raid on illegal workers in Australia -- Illegal migrant workers are not a big problem in Australia. Those who are caught are usually working outside of the allowances of their tourist or student visas. Being an island nation and the bottom of the world, Australia does not have border protection issues to the extent of the United States or Europe. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Dec 09 | Workers pick Sweden's shrubs and data hubs -- Thai berry pickers and Indian IT experts have been the primary recipients of work permits since Sweden's new labour force immigration laws came into force a year ago. ( Laborstart ) |
| 17 Dec 09 | Immigration Reform Bill Protects All Workers -- The AFL-CIO is backing comprehensive immigration reform legislation introduced today, which provides a long overdue and sensible approach to immigration reform and protects the interests of all workers—foreign and U.S.-born. ( http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/12/15/immigration-reform-bill-protects-all-workers/ ) |
| 17 Dec 09 | 25th Anniversary of Free South Africa Movement: Solidarity Works -- The union movement played a big role in the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. In marches, political action and direct action, the Free South Africa Movement in the United States proved that international worker solidarity works. And its ripple effects impact not only workers-but each person on our planet. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Dec 09 | 5th Congress of Slovak Chemical Workers -- The 5th congress of the Slovak Chemical Workers was held in Svit, Eastern Slovakia, 25-26 November. It was followed by a merger congress with the energy workers which elected Juraj Blahak as President of the new union. Attempts to get the glass workers and construction workers also interested in the merger had failed before. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Dec 09 | Steel Employees Trade Union rejects wage revision of steel workers -- Rourkela: CITU affiliated Steel Employees Trade Union (SETU) today said they would resort to an indefinite strike in the steel industry from January 5, 2010 if "genuine demands" of workers were not settled by the year end. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Dec 09 | Bus strike's over -- The buses will soon be running again, but the bad blood may not be going anywhere. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Dec 09 | Send a message to Sun International - "negotiate and don't try to break the union" -- More than 3,500 SACCAWU members at the Sun International South Africa have been on strike since 4 December 2009 for wage increases and improved working conditions. The country has become one of the premier tourist destinations in the world and saw the company more than doubling over the last few years. Throughout the period of negotiations which stretched over months now, management has demonstrated extremely bad faith, continuously derailing the negotiations, this is despite all efforts by the union to settle the strike. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Dec 09 | Vale Letter Opts for Mischief and Misrepresentation Rather than Unconditional Bargaining -- Sudbury, 11 December 2009 – In a letter released today, Vale Inco has attempted to cause mischief and confusion in the five month-old strike at the Canadian operations. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Dec 09 | South Korea: Government crackdown on public sector trade unions intensifies -- PSI has written to the Korean President, Mr Lee Myung-Bak, strongly condemning the recent violations of trade union rights and is calling on affiliates and the trade union movement to send similar letters of protest to the Korean Government as well as to the Korean Embassies in their countries and to their Foreign Ministries. You may download and use the model letter below or use the online form. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Dec 09 | Vale Inco strike in Sudbury, Ont., hits 5-month mark with no end in sight -- More than 3,000 miners, members of United Steelworkers Local 6500, walked off the job back on July 13. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Dec 09 | Retail workers thrilled with Easter Trading vote -- Retail workers will be thrilled by tonight's defeat of a bill which would have made it harder for them to spend Easter with their families, the National Distribution Union (NDU) said tonight. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Dec 09 | Unions warn of strike action -- Unions were this evening warning of an 'indefinite strike' in protest at the cuts to public sector pay in yesterday's Budget. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Dec 09 | More migrant workers ask for open-chest surgery in compensation bid -- Following the lead of Zhang Haichao, who famously underwent open-chest surgery to prove he was suffering from pneumoconiosis, 13 migrant workers from Yunnan have applied to have the same operation to examine their lungs, according to the local Chinese media. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Dec 09 | Georgia: Serious Violations of Workers’ Rights in the Name of Liberalisation, Despite GSP+ Benefits -- Brussels, 7 December: A new ITUC report on the respect of fundamental labour standards in Georgia, released today to coincide with the WTO’s review of this country’s trade policies, strongly denounces the country’s 2006 Labour Code, which has caused massive violations of the rights of Georgian workers and trade unions. Although the government had made a formal undertaking to respect those rights in its application for the EU’s trade benefits under the GSP+ scheme, workers’ rights are blatantly disregarded in practice. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Dec 09 | EU staff to strike in bid to keep 3.7 per cent pay rise -- BRUSSELS) - European Union staff said on Tuesday that they will strike next week for their right to pocket an inflation-busting 3.7 percent pay rise which member states say shows double standards. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Dec 09 | Unions to Vale: You can run but you can't hide -- Some 200 trade unionists from Canada and the USA held rolling protest actions in New York City calling on mining giant Vale to negotiate with the USW who represents 3,500 workers on strike since July. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Dec 09 | General strike in Turkey to demand union rights -- Workers across Turkey took part in a general strike last week to demand basic labour rights. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Dec 09 | Gov’t. spies hound labor activists -- Despite the holding of an ILO mission to investigate labor repression, state harassment of independent labor activists in the Philippines has continued unabated, resulting in the death of one veteran union organizer and repeated intimidation of a foreign labor rights watchdog volunteer. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Dec 09 | Wal-Mart will pay $40m to workers -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has agreed to pay $40 million to as many as 87,500 current and former employees in Massachusetts, the largest wage-and-hour class-action settlement in the state’s history. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Dec 09 | Bank Workers Demand More Money -- Bank employees are threatening to strike mid-December if their demands for higher wages are not met. The Trade Union Suora and the Federation of Professional and Managerial Staff handed the state conciliator a strike warning on Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Dec 09 | Strike action begins at $12bn Woodside project -- INDUSTRIAL action has returned to WA's multi-billion LNG industry, as workers last night went on a 48-hour strike at Woodside's $12 billion Pluto project. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Dec 09 | Labor Groups Seek Strength Through Merger -- Sitting at a desk in the basement of an old apartment building, Boris Kravchenko warmly recalled a speech that U.S. President Barack Obama delivered in September at a Labor Day picnic in Ohio, which won applause from him and thousands of other union leaders. ( Laborstart ) |
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