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 [...]
Around 7,000 workers at a Taiwan-owned shoe factory in Dongguan took to the streets on 17 November, in protest at salary cuts and the earlier dismissal of 18 managerial staff, according to posts on Tianya and a Southern Daily reporter’s microblog. Photographs posted online showed large numbers of police on the street and bloodied workers [...]
Workers’ rights in Malaysia are slowly being eroded by a government that places more importance on the well being of companies and corporations, rather than workers, be it local or foreign. one such phenomenon is the rise in the practice of workers being supplied to employers by outsourcing agents and companies, whereby the supplied workers [...]
Thousands marched to the SAR government headquarters in Lower Albert Road on 4 September, warning of mounting social unrest if the administration fails to tackle the housing problem and spiraling inflation. The pro-government organizer, Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, said up to 5,000 protesters took part in the march, which began at the Central [...]
IMF affiliates from countries in Asia-Pacific and the Americas met in Geneva on August 29 to discuss the ongoing negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. A joint trade union strategy was defined to make the creation of quality jobs and the promotion of fundamental labour standards an explicit goal of the agreement. GLOBAL: The Trans-Pacific [...]
No Chains – Second Step Forward 22 January 2011 Bangkok/Buenos Aires Second Launch of Global Brand “No Chains” On 22 January, 2011, the ‘sweatfree’ brand No Chains will present the second group of T-shirt designs, symbolizing and calling for a world free of slave labour. The ‘second launch’ will take place in both Bangkok and [...]
The economy’s twin engines, the Yangtze and Pearl river deltas, are spluttering due to a shortfall of migrant workers, especially in the service and manufacturing industries, amid soaring living costs and stagnant salaries. “The labour shortage has hit customer services and the home service sectors since spring, and it is becoming more serious recently,” said [...]
Iceland remains the country that has the greatest equality between men and women, according to an annual report by the World Economic Forum (WEF). It is the second year in succession that Iceland has topped the foundation’s Global Gender Gap Report. Nordic nations dominate the top of the list of 134 countries, with Norway in [...]
Six recruiters were accused on September 2 of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment that the FBI called the largest human-trafficking case ever charged in U.S. history, The indictment alleges that the scheme was orchestrated by four employees of labor recruiting company Global Horizons Manpower [...]
Red cadmium dust drifted freely in China’s nickel-cadmium battery factories owned and operated by GP BATTERIES (GP), one of the world’s top battery manufacturers. Ren, a migrant worker originally from Sichuan, suffers from frequent headaches and breathing difficulties. If untreated, the cadmium poisoning can lead to kidney failure, cancer, and even death. RED DUST tells [...]
