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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nearly 2,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory had returned to work on Saturday January 14 and 6,000 more planned to return on January 16 after nearly three weeks of strikes, company and union representatives said on January 15. Yung Wah Factory administrative director Ing Minchuan confirmed that the roughly 2,000 workers at Yung [...]

PHNOM PENH (TrustLaw)–Sophea Chrek started working at a garment factory in Phnom Penh in 2000, at the age of 20, shortly after she dropped out of school to help support her family. Chrek found a way out of the garment industry in 2005, but she continues to surround herself with its politics and its workers’ [...]

Muttahida Labour Federation Secretary General Muhammad Hanif Ramay said this at a seminar organised by the Women Workers Union with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung at Township on Sunday Dec 11. Civil society activists and working women from Lahore, Khushab, Jhelum, Faisalabad and Gujranwala attended the event. Mr Ramay said that scores of working women faced [...]

Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc and its Indonesian workers’ union expect to sign a pay deal soon, ending a 3-month strike that has crippled production at the world’s second biggest copper mine, union officials told Reuters on Tuesday. The strike has been the highest profile stoppage among a slew of worker pay protests in [...]

A “significant proportion” of the over 18,000 employees — workers and executives — employed in the Karnataka circle of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) are likely to participate in the nationwide strike on Thursday, convener of the Joint Action Committee of unions in the public sector company, C.K. Gundanna, has said. “The focus of this [...]

Protests have erupted over the last week in a wide range of industries and locations across China, indicating that worker unrest is far from confined to just the manufacturing heartland of the Pearl River Delta. Several hundred workers at an electronics factory in Taicang, Jiangsu, reportedly went out on strike for two days from 28 [...]

The Labour Ministry figures that only about 100,000 workers would lose their jobs permanently as a result of layoffs following the floods, instead of up to 920,000 as estimated recently by the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), according the the Nation news. Permanent secretary Somkiat Chayasriwong said on November 29 that most of [...]