Unionists of South Korea’s public broadcaster MBC went on an indefinite general strike early Monday, demanding the resignation of the president and personnel reforms over what they called biased coverage of major social issues by the broadcaster. The union has argued that the broadcaster has intentionally omitted or reduced the coverage of politically sensitive issues, [...]
The Saudi Arabia government has threatened to end the hiring of Nepalese migrant workers to the country, if Nepal will not provide safe access to housemaids stopped in India. India stopped about 3,000 Nepali women illegally flying to the Gulf country last week upon the request of Nepal government. Flying from foreign airports for overseas [...]
Hours after Apple released its first quarter earnings, which showed a mind-blowing 44.7 percent profit, the New York Times published another in a series of articles illustrating some of the reasons behind Apple’s profit margin. Describing the conditions in which Chinese workers assemble iPhones, iPads and a panoply of Apple products, the report states: Employees [...]
The Indian government during 2011 failed to hold rights violators accountable or to carry out effective policies to protect vulnerable communities, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. The government took no action to repeal the widely discredited Armed Forces Special Powers Act, disregarding the recommendations of political leaders and advisers, Human [...]
The number of female workers in Korea surpassed 10 million for the first time in 2011, data showed Wednesday. The number of male workers in the same year was estimated at 14.15 million. The data also revealed that the number of working women in their 50s exceeded 2 million, outnumbering 20-something working females. Working males [...]
On 22 December 2012 more than 20 people who were trade unionists, labour activists and CAW members in Sri Lanka met to discuss what actions can be taken to follow-up on the Peoples’ Tribunal in March that called for a Asian Floor Wage for the garment sector in Sri Lanka. The meeting began by an [...]
Nearly 2,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory had returned to work on Saturday Jan 14 and 6,000 more planned to return on Jan 16 after nearly three weeks of strikes, company and union representatives said on Jan 15. Yung Wah Factory administrative director Ing Minchuan confirmed that the roughly 2,000 workers at Yung [...]
Members belonging to the Tamil Nadu Domestic Workers’ Welfare Association staged a demonstration near the Collector’s office on Monday January 23. Their demands included fixation of minimum wages for domestic workers’ based on the price hike (index), to ratify the ILO convention supplemented by the recommendation on decent work for domestic workers, to ensure national [...]
A new report from the International Trade Union Confederation on workers’ rights in Saudi Arabia has uncovered alarming levels of child labour, discrimination and forced labour. The report, due to be delivered to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of the Gulf Kingdom’s trade policies on 25th January, found that Saudi Arabia is in violation [...]
Many Egyptian political parties, especially dominant Islamist groups, have refused to commit to protecting women’s rights and to abolishing the death penalty, Amnesty International said on Tuesday (Jan 24). “Most of the biggest Egyptian political parties have committed to delivering ambitious human rights reform in the country’s transition, but have either given mixed signals or [...]
