| 27 May 10 | Striking Honda workers not happy with pay rise -- Workers at a Honda plant in China have won a raise after staging two strikes over pay, according to local media reports. ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 May 10 | Mott’s Workers Strike Applesauce Plant -- Workers at Mott’s upstate New York applesauce plant launched an unfair labor practice strike against the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) subsidiary Sunday after earlier rejecting a concessions-laden contract from the food and drink conglomerate, which, last year, made a $550 million profit. (Click here for an audio report on the strike from Workers Independent News.) ( Laborstart ) |
| 27 May 10 | Govt slams Air India strikers after crash -- India's aviation minister on Wednesday condemned as "irresponsible" striking Air India staff, whose walk-out led to flight cancellations and travel disruption just days after a fatal crash. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 24 May 10 | Government Bows to ILO Demands -- Harare — THE government, which is under international pressure to end torture and harassment of trade unionists, says it will implement far reaching policies to promote trade unionism in Zimbabwe. ( Laborstart ) |
| 24 May 10 | Argentine Food Workers Seek 35% Salary Increase, La Nacion Says -- May 18 (Bloomberg) -- Argentine unions representing about 80,000 workers in the food industry are in talks brokered by the Labor Ministry over their demand for a salary increase of 35 percent this year, La Nacion said. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 May 10 | ICEM Supports Zimbabwe Mineworkers in Valid Wage Struggle -- The ICEM stands in strong support of its trade union affiliate in Zimbabwe, the Associated Mine Workers’ of Zimbabwe (AMWZ), as it starts a continuous strike today, 12 May, against the country’s Chamber of Mines. The strike is over fulfillment of badly needed wage increases, salary adjustments that were negotiated and agreed to in an arbitration award last year but never delivered. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 May 10 | New Wage Hike a Mere Palliative, Say Labour Advocates -- KARACHI, May 5, 2010 (IPS) - Imran Ali, 23, has no reason to complain. His monthly take home pay of 8,600 Pakistan rupees (about 102 U.S. dollars) as a government employee allows him to augment his family’s meagre income. ( Laborstart ) |
| 13 May 10 | Egyptian workers demand a living wage -- On May 11 the Egyptian government extended the State of Emergency, which has been in effect continuously since 1981, for an additional two years. The Emergency Law gives the regime broad powers which it has used to try to suppress dissent of all sorts. But the law and other repressive measures have been ineffective in stemming the tidal wave of public protests by workers and others that have severely eroded the legitimacy of the regime of President Hosni Mubarak. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 May 10 | Decent Work Still a Dream for South Africa's Domestic Workers -- CAPE TOWN, May 11 (IPS) - The abuse of domestic workers, the majority of whom are women, is still widespread in South Africa despite calls for the government to intensify the implementation of the domestic workers law. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 May 10 | Bank workers resume strike in Guinea -- The Autonomous Trade Union Federation of Banks, Insuran ce and Micro-finance of Guinea (FESABAG) resumed an indefinite strike on Monday t o press demands for higher salary. ( Laborstart ) |
| 12 May 10 | Low wages spur massive strike -- Yemen - The General Labor Union in Yemen (GLU) called all workers in Yemen to initiate a general strike starting on Saturday, May 15. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 May 10 | Air quality on the agenda for aviation unions -- Cabin crew and pilots could soon benefit from a ground-breaking blood test. The test would prove exposure to one of the toxic compounds present in contaminated supply air on planes, according to the Global Cabin Air Quality Executive (GCAQE). ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 May 10 | New food workers’ strike to be postponed by two weeks -- A new and considerably larger strike by the Finnish Food Workers' Union (SEL), scheduled to begin from Tuesday, will now be postponed by two weeks. Following a recommendation from National Conciliator Esa Lonka, Minister of Labour Anni Sinnemäki (Green League) decided on postponing the strike late on Friday evening. The Ministry of Labour has the authority to postpone the beginning of an industrial action by a maximum of two weeks, if the action is feared to cause substantial damage to certain vital functions of society. ( Laborstart ) |
| 11 May 10 | Port, rail workers strike in South Africa with month to go before World Cup -- Ezrom Mabyana, president of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union, told The Associated Press the nationwide strike started with Monday's first shift. He says it will continue until demands for a 15 percent wage hike are met. Employer Transnet has offered 11 percent. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 May 10 | Launch worker strike intensifies -- Dhaka, May 9 (bdnews24.com) – As the strike of a faction of water transport workers entered its second day, on Sunday, its effect appeared to intensify with less than half of the scheduled launches being able to leave Dhaka's Sadarghat terminal. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 May 10 | Workers Challenge "Privatization for the Elite" -- Since the second half of the 1990s, China has been through waves of privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in a drive to pave the way for a market economy. Previous issues of CLNT have focused on state workers’ resistance to such cases of privatization such as the recent Tonghua Steel incident. This issue will look at an interesting case where an ordinary worker has been persistently and creatively trying to defend workers’ interests in an SOE where he worked that has been quietly privatized. What is notable about this case is that this worker, Liu Rongli, mobilized his fellow workers to try and set up a workplace union and struggled to force the management to offer company stocks to its workers and for greater management transparency. In this issue, we translate two articles both written by Liu about the corrupt privatization of state assets in China, and about the difficulties involved in unionizing restructured SOEs. ( Laborstart ) |
| 10 May 10 | Top Chile copper mine hit as workers strike drags -- * Subcontractors went on strike, blocked roads on Friday * Full-time workers' union says output halted (Adds color, details on demands, context) ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 May 10 | Transport workers in South Africa set for strike action -- Some 50,000 workers in the state owned freight group Transnet are set to go on strike next week. A total shutdown of all South Africa’s ports, freight rail operations, rail engineering works and fuel pipelines is expected. ( Laborstart ) |
| 07 May 10 | New metal sector agreement in Norway -- NORWAY: Fellesforbundet announced on April 30 that its metalworking members had voted in support of a new sector collective agreement for two years that is estimated to result in an increase of three per cent. ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 May 10 | Transnet strike will cripple vehicle makers, warns Naamsa -- Motor manufacturers yesterday warned that strike action at the country's port and rail infrastructure would close all the assembly plants "within a matter of days, with a massive cascade effect throughout the entire automotive value chain in South Africa". ( Laborstart ) |
| 06 May 10 | May Day in Cambodia: Workers of the World, Unite -- This is a cross-post from the AFL-CIO Solidarity Center website. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 May 10 | Labour leaders cheer recent decision favouring migrant worker union -- MONTREAL - Labour activists across Canada are cheering a recent ruling by the Quebec labour relations board that granted migrant workers at a small Quebec vegetable farm the right to unionize. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 May 10 | Cambodian workers mark international labour day -- PHNOM PENH - Thousands of Cambodian workers marked international labour day Saturday by marching through the capital to demand better work conditions and the establishment of a labour court. ( Laborstart ) |
| 03 May 10 | A May Day distress call -- Around the world uncertainty is becoming the single unifying characteristic of working life. And for anyone who's not independently wealthy, uncertainty about work means uncertainty about everything. ( Laborstart ) |
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