| 27 Feb 13 | Measly minimum wage increase won’t touch the sides -- The measly increase to the minimum wage won’t even touch the sides for already underpaid workers, according to the Public Service Association. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 Feb 13 | African rail unions strongly united against industry fragmentation -- Unions will continue fighting against the massive restructuring which has fragmented Africa’s rail industry over the past decades, a recent ITF conference revealed. ( http://www.itfglobal.org ) |
| 26 Feb 13 | Turkey: Key McDonald's supplier unionised by IUF affiliate Tekgida-Is -- IUF-affiliated Tekgida-Is has just won a significant struggle against East Balt company, a key supplier for McDonald`s chain restaurants in Turkey. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Feb 13 | Labour leader for basic rights to workers -- KARACHI: Senior labour leader Habib-ud-din Junaidi has called upon industrialists, commercial and privatised commercial banks to ensure welfare of their workers by providing them fundamental rights including good salary packages with timely payment. ( Laborstart ) |
| 26 Feb 13 | Budget 2013: Workfare to benefit more low-wage workers -- About 40,000 more low-wage workers will come under the Workfare Income Supplement (WIS) scheme this year, after the monthly income ceiling of the scheme is raised from $1,700 to $1,900. ( http://www.straitstimes.com ) |
| 21 Feb 13 | Railway workers union calls indefinite strike at ILVA plant -- ANSA reported that union representing some railway workers at the troubled ILVA steel plant in the southern port city of Taranto called an indefinite strike Monday February 18th and revoked a 2010 agreement. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Feb 13 | Hamburg Airport strike cancels over 100 flights -- Over 100 flights at Hamburg Airport were cancelled on Wednesday due to an ongoing labour dispute with security personnel. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Feb 13 | Trade Unions' Strike Cripples Normal Life Across India -- The two-day nationwide strike called by 11 major trade unions paralysed banking and transport services across India. The strike evoked mixed response. ( Laborstart ) |
| 21 Feb 13 | Greeks in fresh general strike against austerity -- Crowds marched towards parliament in Athens, beating drums and blowing whistles as part of the 24-hour strike. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Feb 13 | Lebanon union says to escalate strike action -- BEIRUT: Thousands began an open-ended strike across Lebanon Tuesday in a row over the new public sector wage scale as the Union Coordination Committee (UCC) threatened to take further action. ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Feb 13 | Low-paid staff need solidarity -- OPINION: "Call up the craftsmen, bring me the draughtsmen, build me a path from cradle to grave. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage." ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Feb 13 | Chinese Ship Seized by Striking Workers at Brazil’s Santos Port -- Striking workers in Brazil today seized a Chinese ship at one of the country’s main export hubs, as union leaders pledged to intensify protests if the government refuses to alter its plan to restructure ports. ( http://www.businessweek.com ) |
| 20 Feb 13 | Take action in solidarity with Mexican Bata workers -- The Sindicato Único de Trabajadores de Calzado Sandak is standing firm. It is demanding that the plant reopen, and for the past eighteen months has kept watch outside the factory, a Bata plant in Tlaxcala in the east of Mexico, day and night to prevent the removal of the machinery. Despite the immense hardships they face, these brave union members are determined to continue their struggle. Send them your messages of solidarity from around the world and let them know they do not struggle alone. ( http://www.industriall-union.org ) |
| 19 Feb 13 | Chinese Ship Seized by Striking Workers at Brazil’s Santos Port -- Striking workers in Brazil today seized a Chinese ship at one of the country’s main export hubs, as union leaders pledged to intensify protests if the government refuses to alter its plan to restructure ports. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Feb 13 | Doctors’ strike total in Kottayam -- The Statewide strike called by the Kerala Medical Post-Graduate Association (KMPGA) was total at the Kottayam Government Medical College. However, Medical College authorities said the service at the medical college hospital was not affected on account of the resident doctors’ strike. ( Laborstart ) |
| 15 Feb 13 | Greek Factory Under Workers Control -- The workers of Vio.Me., a building materials factory in Thessaloniki, Greece, which was abandoned by its bankrupt owners, have been unpaid since May of 2011. This week, after a series of general assemblies the workers convened, they’ve started occupying the factory and operating it under direct democratic workers’ control. The culmination of a year-long struggle that has attracted attention and solidarity in Greece and worldwide, the occupiers are trying to kick-start production and prove themselves a viable new model. ( http://www.thenation.com ) |
| 15 Feb 13 | Africa: Expatriate Oil Workers Highest Paid in Africa -- Expatriate workers in the Nigerian oil and gas sector are the highest paid in Africa and 11 most paid in the world, with an average annual salary of N22.246 million ($140,800), according to a global oil and gas salary survey. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Feb 13 | Egyptian police strike, seek interior minister's ouster -- (Reuters) - Thousands of Egyptian riot police and conscripts have gone on strike to demand the interior minister's resignation, saying he is too close to the country's Islamist leadership, security sources said on Wednesday. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Feb 13 | Government focus turns to state staff, unions -- With pressure mounting from international creditors for a series of so-called prior actions to be implemented, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is expected to focus on streamlining the bloated civil service sector as well as containing strike action on various fronts. ( Laborstart ) |
| 14 Feb 13 | Tell PKC to reinstate workers in Mexico -- Join the global campaign for union rights in Mexico and send a message via LabourStart now to PKC, a Finnish auto-parts supplier, calling for the reinstatement of sacked workers and a free and fair election. ( http://www.industriall-union.org ) |
| 13 Feb 13 | Worthy Park workers on strike -- The workers claim they are being treated disrespectfully by the estate’s Farm Manager and are calling for his dismissal. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Feb 13 | Burnt KFC worker in serious condition -- A KFC worker who suffered burns to 15 per cent of his body after an oil vat accident remains in a serious condition in hospital. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 Feb 13 | Strike Law Change Splits Greek Coalition -- Greece’s wobbly coalition is showing further signs of strain after the PASOK Socialists and tiny Democratic Left (DIMAR) objected to plans to make it more difficult for workers to strike. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Feb 13 | Contractor convicted in 2001 murder of 2 union leaders at Drummond coal mine in Colombia Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/06/contractor-convicted-in-2001-murder-2-union-leaders-at-drummond-coal-mine-in/#ixzz2KYX1qUsJ -- BOGOTA, Colombia – A Colombian judge has convicted a former contractor for the U.S.-based Drummond coal mining company of murder for being the mastermind of the killing of two union leaders in 2001. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Feb 13 | Korea: Hunger strikes, head-shavings and global solidarity -- South Korea’s progress from dictatorship to democracy has not been an easy or straightforward one, as the recent Presidential election has shown. The good news was that for the first time in history, the Koreans had elected a woman, Park Guenhye, to lead their country. The bad news is that she’s the daughter of the former dictator, Park Chung-hee, who ruled the country from 1963 to 1979. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 Feb 13 | Fighting for 1,875 Days: Laid-off Workers of JEI Demonstrate High in the Sky -- Yeo Min-hui (41) and Oh Su-yeong (40) union members of the Jaeneung Educational Institute (JEI) chapter of the Korean Educational Materials Industry Union, launched a demonstration atop a 20-meter bell tower at the Hyehwa-dong Catholic Church in Seoul on February 6. ( Laborstart ) |
| 08 Feb 13 | Eighty hotel workers laid off -- Staff of Bounty and Treasure Island were given their letters last month and the resorts managers say they’re unable to provide work due to Cyclone Evan. ( Laborstart ) |
| 05 Feb 13 | A Union Vote For Chinese Workers Who Assemble iPhones -- The Chinese workers who assemble iPhones, iPads and tons of other electronic devices may soon be able to elect their own union representatives, the FT reports. ( http://www.npr.org ) |
| 05 Feb 13 | Short Term Victory of R105 a day Wages for Farm Workers -- The Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU) welcomes short term victory of 50% adjustment in minimum wage for farm workers, from R69.00 to R105.00 ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Feb 13 | Solomons teachers asked to end strike -- The Solomon Islands government is urging striking teachers to return to work today as it has promised to pay them their outstanding dues this week. ( Laborstart ) |
| 04 Feb 13 | Nurses’ strike enters third month -- Services in public health facilities remain paralysed as the nurses’ strike enters its third month with no breakthrough in sight. ( Laborstart ) |
| 01 Feb 13 | ‘Domestic workers must organize to secure kasambahay law, ILO C189’ – APL -- DOMESTIC workers from the Philippines working abroad and even inside the country have double cause to celebrate when two landmark laws benefiting them were recently enacted, but to ensure their full implementation and to raise further the rights of DWs, they must eventually organize into unions or associations. ( http://www.apl.org. ) |
| 01 Feb 13 | Luxury brand fails on union rights in Turkey -- Producing for Ermenegildo Zegna, four members of IndustriALL’s Turkish affiliate were dismissed by textile company Ismaco in December and January for joining a trade union. Send your letter of protest today. ( http://www.industriall-union.org ) |
| 01 Feb 13 | Korea: Public sector union president on indefinite hunger strike -- The President of the Korean Government Employees' Union (KGEU), Kim Jungnam, launched a hunger strike in the streets of Seoul outside the offices of the Presidential transition committee on15 January. ( Laborstart ) |
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