China Labour Bulletin is quoted in the following article. Copyright remains with the original publisher. Ivan Broadhead May 17, 2012 HONG KONG – The Chinese government is seeking to reassure workers of their rights, a move activists say highlights Beijing's concern that possible labor unrest could cause disruptions to social stability. China's latest economic figures [...]
Read more →Over 4,000 coal miners in the Australian state of Queensland are in an ongoing industrial dispute with one of the biggest mining companies in the world over health and safety issues. BHP wants to remove critical health & safety roles from the workers and their union. This is a direct attack against union workplace structures [...]
Read more →Earlier this month, around 1,000 shoe workers in Dongguan took industrial action to protest against managements plans to cut their monthly performance bonus from 500 yuan to 100 yuan. Workers used social media to successfully publicise their dispute. The number of strikes in China have increased markedly in the last six months. Click here for [...]
Read more →There have been many rallies in Korea to remember the workers who have been the victims of the bitter Ssangyong dispute in 2009. Some workers like Han Sang Kyun are still in jail. Some have died having succumbed to unemployment, poverty and depression. Unionists and activists have been holding solidarity rallies and memorial services in Seoul. AAWL [...]
Read more →Almost 3,000 sportswear workers at PT Kizone were left without a job in April of last year when their factory closed down. After over a year, these workers are still owed $1.8 million in entitlements. The factory was producing for companies like Adidas, Nike and Reebok. Click here for a video of a workers story. [...]
Read more →Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen detained dozens of people and clashed with protesters who blocked a major road over graft allegations linked to the management of their apartment blocks, local residents said on Wednesday. More than 100 residents of the Jingcheng Garden apartment complex in Shenzhen’s Xinqiao village staged a protest Tuesday [...]
Read more →CONAKRY May 16 (Reuters) – A railway occupation by former employees of Guinea’s state bauxite company CBG, a joint venture with Alcoa and Rio Tinto, is starving its factory of ore supplies for processing, senior company officials told Reuters on Wednesday. “It has prevented us from supplying the factory since Monday,” said one official who [...]
Read more →A West Papuan living in exile in Vanuatu has been arrested along with about two dozen others for protesting against the arrival of an Indonesian military aircraft in Port Vila today. Andy Ayamiseba, who is also a Vanuatu citizen, says he believes he may have been arrested for protesting without a valid permit. But he [...]
Read more →Following two rooftop protests by workers this year at its Wuhan subsidiary, Foxconn has drafted an agreement (承诺书) under which its management staff promise not to instigate, organize or participate in any disruptive activities, the Boxun news network reported. The agreement also prevents staff from releasing any unauthorised information about the company or doing anything [...]
Read more →Around three hundred detainees arrested during clashes near the defence ministry in Abbasiya on 4 May have threatened to join 16 hunger strikers in a mass hunger strike on 20 May unless they are released without facing military trials. Two detainees started their hunger strike last week and another 14, who are being held in [...]
Read more →PUDR is concerned at the alleged encounter killing by a joint team of Assam Police, CRPF and Indian Army in which four alleged armed cadres of the Upper Assam Leading Committee of CPI (Maoist) were killed on 9 May at Borgora-Deopani Nepali Gaon under the Saidya police station. We are all the more concerned because [...]
Read more →DESPITE SEVERE HARASSMENT AND BEING MANHANDLED BY BOUNCERS, NURSES CONTINUE TO SIT ON STRIKE WATER & ELECTRICITY SUPPLY CUT OFF IN THE NURSES’ HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION IMPACT OF STRIKE SPREADS TO OTHER HOSPITALS The nurses of Asian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Faridabad and QRG Central Hospital continue to sit on strike for the eighth consecutive [...]
Read more →The new charge sheet filed against top Maoist leader Kobad Ghandy for his prosecution under the anti-terror law for being a member of banned CPI (Maoist) was today sent to the sessions court for taking cognisance. The charge sheet along with a fresh sanction for Ghandy’s prosecution under the Unlawful Activities Prevention (UAP) Act came [...]
Read more →Peoples Union for Democratic Rights 14 May 2012 PRESS STATEMENT PUDR has long argued against the ban on SIMI. We welcome the Supreme Court’s issue of notices to the Central government on two pleas against the continuous banning of SIMI. Decclared an unlawful organisation under Sec 3 of the UAPA in 2001 SIMI has been [...]
Read more →Two workers were held in police detention for 25 days for allegedly imprisoning their factory manager in a dispute over unpaid pension contributions. They were eventually released on 29 April but the police have refused to say if the workers will be charged or not. The dispute erupted on 2 April when around 130 employees [...]
Read more →Last week on 8 May, around 1,000 shoe factory workers in Dongguan walked out in protest at management plans to cut their monthly bonus from the usual 500 yuan to just 100 yuan. Management refused to talk so one worker posted their grievances on his micro-blog. China Labour Bulletin contacted the worker and posted an [...]
Read more →http://www.thehindu.com/health/article3405289.ece More than 16.8 lakh children below five years died of infectious but preventable diseases in India in 2010 and more than half of them could not complete the first month of their life, a new study has claimed. Of the total deaths, 52 per cent or about 0.875 million were among the children who [...]
Read more →Translated by Taki Manolakos, Sanhati By Rudy Rinaldi 04.05.2012 The Greek elections, the Coalition of the Radical Left, the political stakes, and reactions to Tsipras’ proposal The proposal of Alexis Tsipras, leader of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) for a government of the Left has caused large cracks not only in the space [...]
Read more →NURSES OF PRIVATE HOSPITALS IN FARIDABAD ON WAR PATH, & TAKE OUT A RALLY AROUND FARIDABAD NURSES of ASIAN HOSPITAL SIT ON HUNGER STRIKE ON THE OCCASION OF INTERNATIONAL NURSES’ DAY The nurses of Asian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Faridabad and QRG Central Hospital continue to sit on strike for the sixth consecutive day. [...]
Read more →WHAT : FOURTH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL FORUM OF FOREST PEOPLE AND FOREST WORKERS WHEN : 26-28, MAY 2012 WHERE : DEHRADUN, UTTARAKHAND CONTACT : Vikalp @ 91-132-2661276 It is our great pleasure to invite you to the 4th National conference of National Forum of Forest People and Forest Workers. Delegates from constituent groups/organizations [...]
Read more →Joint Press Statement of the Delhi Nurses Welfare Association, Workers Unity Centre, and the Centre for Struggling Women NURSES OF FARIDABAD ON WAR PATH RAMPANT EXPOITATION OF MALYALI NURSES PRIVATE HOSPITALS INDULGE IN A RANGE OF ILLEGAL PRACTICES 10.05.2012 Following a 14 day strike notice, 300 nurses of Asian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), Faridabad, [...]
Read more →http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/article3407725.ece Indicating sharp slowdown in the economy, industrial production declined by 3.5 per cent in March, mainly on account of contraction in manufacturing and mining output. Growth in the factory output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), was higher at 9.4 per cent in March last year. The industrial production has been [...]
Read more →[Six members of United Students Democratic Front and one member of APDR were detained for more than six hours on 10 May at the Jhargram police station in West Midnapore district of West Bengal when they went to the Jhargram hospital from Kolkata to see Jharkhand Students Federation secretary Kamalesh Mahato, who according to the [...]
Read more →Over 10,000 workers at the giant Asia Pulp and Paper’s (APP) twin mills in Karawang, West Java, staged a two day strike this week over conditions and pay. The unity and determination of the workers actions set the stage for a quick resolution of the dispute. Workers won up to 18% wage increases which placed [...]
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