We, participants of the 6th ASEAN Peoples Forum (APF) held in Hanoi on Sep 24-26, 2010, including members of the Steering Committee, wish to record our objections over actions to undermine the independence and democratic process of civil society groups in this region. Such interference undermines the spirit and content of the ASEAN Charter and [...]
(Press statement by GoodElectronics, Bread for All, SACOM, makeITfair and International Metalworkers’ Federation) Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Geneva – Tuesday 12 October 2010 – Today, Hong Kong labour rights organisation Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) is releasing an investigative report, entitled ‘Workers as Machines: Foxconn’s Military Management’ that describes labour conditions at three Foxconn [...]
Veteran unionist Francis Xavier, 59, who had campaigned to establish an electronics workers union over the past 30 years, did not see the fruit of his labour as a result of his sudden death which has shocked the workers fraternity. Malaysian Trades Union Congress president Syed Shahir Syed Muhamad said Xavier managed to finally register [...]
New Delhi: Trade unions are going on a 24-hour nationwide strike against price rise on Tuesday 7th September. Nearly six crore workers under the banner of 8 trade unions will be participating in the strike. They are demanding a control on price rise, streamlining of the rationing system and proper implementation of Labour laws, according to [...]
Press Statements/Release 26 August 2010 Innabuyog, alliance of indigenous women’s organizations in the Cordillera, Philippines #16 Loro St., Dizon Subdivision, Baguio City 2600, Philippines Tel. +63 74 442 5347 Reference: Vernie Yocogan-Diano, Chairperson The International Women’s Alliance is Born Women from different parts of the world have gathered in a historic gathering in [...]
MORE than 60,000 garment workers have reportedly pledged to hold a one-week strike next month after the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training and the Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia rebuffed their request to renegotiate the sector’s newly established minimum wage. Ath Thun, head of the Cambodian Labour Confederation, said at a meeting in Meanchey [...]
Over 4000 anganwadi (the government sponsored child-care and mother-care center) workers, all are women, protested outside zilla parishad office demanding wage revision. The protest was part of the one-day nationwide strike of anganwadi workers who have been fighting for fulfilment of their demands for over two years now. “The policies of the state government are against the [...]
National welfare peak body, ACOSS has launched a new campaign in support of the landmark equal wage case to lift the pay rates and conditions of 200,000 community sector workers. ACOSS is encouraging its members, and other community organisations, to support the campaign by signing onto a joint statement of support. The statement calls for [...]
CHENNAI: The convention of the State Women Fish Workers Federation will take place on July 2. The district-level committees of Chennai and Tiruvallur, formed at a meeting of 140 women fish workers in the city on Saturday, would support the State-level meet. Among the resolutions adopted in the day’s meeting was that the State government [...]
