Chinese battery producer Gold Peak Industrial Holding Ltd is under fire by Chinese and international labour groups for failing to be a decent employer. Year-long struggles of (ex-) workers with cadmium related health problems have not yet resulted in an acceptable solution. Gold Peak unilateral decision to close down and relocate its Shenzhen-based Jet Power [...]
Dear Friends and Comrades,
The Committee for Asian Women would like to send its deeply concerns regarding the illegal arrest and detention of more than 40 health workers in Bgy. Maybangkal Morong Rizal on February 06 2010, on suspicion of being members of the New People’s Army. The arrested individuals are undertaking a training on emergency [...]
The African regional organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa) has called on Robert Mugabe and the police to immediately release five members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), who were arrested over the weekend.
On Sunday night, the ZCTU members, including ZCTU President Lovemore Matombo, were arrested in Victoria Falls and are [...]
At 1130pm, Thurs, Thai foreign Ministry officials informed organizers of APF that 5 out of 10 civil society representatives were rejected from the interface meeting with ASEAN heads of government. The remaining representatives were told to be ready for pick up at 7.A.M., nearly 5 hours before the scheduled meeting. (see below for list of [...]
Mexican Federal Police last night and early this morning seized the plants of the Central Light and Power Company of Mexico (LyF) which provides electricity to Mexico City and several states in central Mexico. The government of President Felipe Calderón also announced the liquidation of the company, the termination of the workers, and thereby [...]
Today SACOM issues this open statement in order to raise wider awareness
about the plights of tens of thousands of subcontracted workers in
Coca-Cola bottlers in China.
On the 12^th of August 2009, a labor dispatch company hired by
Coca-Cola’s designated Hangzhou-based bottling plant was discovered to
have threatened two university student-workers who asked for their own
and their two other [...]
Fourteen union leaders of CTSWF (Cambodia Tourist and Service Workers Federation) are facing criminal charges of defamation, perjury and incitement, which might lead to imprisonment and monetary fine. They are required to report to the court on 10th August for questionning. The fourteen unionists were fired by the company NagaWorld Casino after it refused to [...]
Nearly 900 employees working at the Hyundai Motors plant near Chennai were taken into custody on Wednesday.
The workers had been on indefinite strike from April 20 demanding the recognition of the Hyundai Motor India Employees union, the only registered union at the plant.
Hyundai has so far been refusing to negotiate with the 1,500-strong workers force.
Around [...]
To sign the petition online, go to: http://campaign.tw-npo.org/campaign/sign.php?id=2009042210484600
If you are holding an iPhone or an HTC in your hand, you might have contributed to the ordeals of nearly 8,000 factory workers in China and Taiwan, to speak of the least.
One of Apple’s major suppliers, WINTEK, is recently facing a fight back from angry workers, among [...]
On October 3, 2008, the terror felt among labour activists in the Philippines grew even stronger. In addition to the arrest of Remigio Saladero, which Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) alerted you to earlier, another 71 people including well-known human and labour rights advocates were put on an arrest list by the Philippines government. Emmanuel “Manny” [...]
