| 23 Jul 10 | Hyundai Motor union accepts wage deal, averts strike for second year -- ULSAN, July 22 (Yonhap) -- Unionists at Hyundai Motor Co., the nation's largest automaker, tentatively agreed to a wage deal with the management, union officials said Thursday, marking the company's second year without a labor strike. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Jul 10 | Workers Protest Mistreatment by Hyatt -- Thousands of hotel workers in 15 cities across North America have been taking to the streets today to protest the practices of Hyatt and its billionaire owners—the politically influential Pritzker family. ( Laborstart ) |
| 23 Jul 10 | Atsumitec strikers get 45 percent pay rise, union lobbies for formal wage negotiation system -- The week-long strike at Honda supplier Atsumitec ended Thursday after workers and management agreed to a 45 percent increase in the basic wage from 980 yuan a month to 1,420 yuan. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jul 10 | French workers agree to General Motors factory plans -- * General Motors to repurchase plant in Strasbourg * Workers agree benefit cuts, salary freeze as part of deal STRASBOURG, July 20 (Reuters) - More than 1,000 factory workers in eastern France agreed to a salary freeze and reduction in days owed as part of conditions imposed by General Motors Co GM.N (GM) to keep a car plant open. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Jul 10 | China labour strikes developments, July 20 -- (Reuters) - China's workers are increasingly voicing their discontent on labour conditions and pay, threatening to undermine the government's legitimacy and erode the nation's competitiveness as a low-cost factory hub. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Jul 10 | NPA Workers Call Off Strike -- Lagos — The two days warning strike embarked upon by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) branch of the Senior Staff Association of Communications, Transport and Corporations, (SSACTAC) has been called off. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Jul 10 | Talks fail to end weavers' strike -- Narsinghdi, July 19 (bdnews24.com) – As the strike of weavers in Narsinghdi demanding improved employment conditions enters its seventh day on Monday, local Awami League leaders failed to negotiate an agreement between the workers and the power loom owners after meetings on Sunday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Jul 10 | Hong Kong passes minimum wage law -- Hong Kong on Saturday passed its first minimum wage law, a controversial issue that has divided the city's business sector and labour groups for more than a decade. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 13 Jul 10 | DHL trade union in Bahrain strike talks -- DHL staff in Bahrain could go on strike on Wednesday if talks over pay and conditions fail, local media reports on Monday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Jul 10 | Namdeb strike off -- WINDHOEK – An eleventh hour intervention by Government and unions’ top leadership has averted the mass strike at Namdeb. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Jul 10 | 1,500 NTB workers deported from Malaysia -- MATARAM: At least 1,500 domestic workers from West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) have been deported from Malaysia this year, with dozens of them reportedly suffering depression and mild mental illness. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Jul 10 | NAMDEB FACES WORKERS' STRIKE OVER PAY -- Workers at Namdeb, a 50-50 joint mining venture between De Beers and the Namibian government, plan to strike from Monday over pay, the company said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Jul 10 | Labour unions concerned US GSP may be withdrawn -- Earlier this year trade unions offered to intervene to save the GSP+, the duty-free trade deal from the EU. But another petition from trade unions is asking the American government to take away the US GSP, the American government’s duty free trade arrangement used by Sri Lanka. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 Jul 10 | Workers launch first strike in Turkish IT sector -- The first labor strike in Turkey’s fledgling information technology, or IT, sector, was launched Friday in the Aegean province of İzmir. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Jul 10 | Greece paralysed as workers strike again -- Thousands of tourists are stranded in Greece after a strike was called to protest the government's economic austerity measures. ( Laborstart ) |
| 09 Jul 10 | Factory Workers Protest in Guangdong Province, China -- China may be the workshop of the world, but young rural migrant workers have captured the world's attention by staging a surprise string of strikes in past weeks. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Jul 10 | Cement, textile workers strike over grievances -- Workers from the Misr-Beni Sueif Cement Company on Tuesday went on strike after a colleague was accidentally killed while operating heavy machinery. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Jul 10 | Wal-Mart Fighting $7,000 Fine in Trampling Case -- Wal-Mart Stores has spent a year and more than a million dollars in legal fees battling a $7,000 fine that federal safety officials assessed after shoppers trampled a Wal-Mart employee to death at a store on Long Island on the day after Thanksgiving in 2008. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 Jul 10 | LabourStart Conference to Explore Global Worker Solidarity -- Stuart Elliott, from the Wichita/Hutchinson Labor Federation of Central Kansas, reports on the upcoming LabourStart Global Solidarity conference in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Jul 10 | Borno Workers to Begin Indefinite Strike -- Maiduguri — CIVIL servants in Borno State as well as those in the 27 local government areas of the state have been mobilised by the state's branch of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, to proceed to an indefinite strike that could cripple government functions in the state. ( Laborstart ) |
| 02 Jul 10 | China strike wave continues -- Workers at a Japanese-owned electronics factory in north China have been on strike for three days, the most recent dispute in a wave of labor unrest. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jun 10 | French strike over plans to raise retirement age -- Trains stood still and children played instead of studied as workers around France went on strike Thursday to protest President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to raise the retirement age by two years to 62. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jun 10 | China's factories hit by wave of strikes -- Industrial unrest has been spreading through China's factories, with strikes breaking out in the south, east and north. China correspondent Damian Grammaticas has been to the industrial heartland in southern Guangdong province to examine why the strikes are happening and what the implications are. ( Laborstart ) |
| 30 Jun 10 | More travel misery from Greek general strike -- Travellers in Greece on Tuesday ran a labour gauntlet for the second time in a week as a general strike against pensions reform shut down services and disrupted departures from the capital. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 29 Jun 10 | Strike Avoided, Salary Increases for Norway’s Oilworkers -- ICEM affiliate Industri Energi (IE) successfully negotiated salary increases for its members at Statoil’s offshore Gullfaks B and Gullfaks C fields, and at Shell's Draugen field, in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea. Talks between union officials and the Norwegian Oil Industry Association, mediated by Nils Dalseide of Norway’s National Arbitration Tribunal, reached agreement that avoided strike action after extending a midnight deadline and concluded in the early hours of Thursday 17 June. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jun 10 | Teachers' stir chokes highway -- MOHALI: Vehicular movement on the busy Chandigarh-Manali national highway came to a rude standstill for close to seven hours on Monday after around 300 computer teachers sat on dharna to protest termination of their services. The educators were fired on May 28. ( Laborstart ) |
| 29 Jun 10 | Greek Unions Stage General Strike On Tuesday -- Greece’s two main umbrella unions stage a 24h walkout on Tuesday, protesting against the overhaul in the labor market and pension system. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jun 10 | TCD: research cuts will cost 1,000 jobs -- Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is predicting that its new funding for research will collapse in the next five years, cutting spending on research by three quarters and leading to the loss of almost 1,000 research positions. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jun 10 | Look to Chinese strikers for hope -- Leaders representing the G20 will soon arrive in Toronto to participate in a two-day summit to discuss a variety of global issues — including how to stop the slow, continuous bleeding brought on by the most devastating economic recession in recent memory. ( Laborstart ) |
| 28 Jun 10 | Strike ends at Arcelor's Algeria plant -- steel plant in Algeria ended on Thursday a three-day strike over pay increases that had halted production, a union official said. ( Laborstart ) |
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