‘This time I’ll lock you out for five years’ – Tata Tea’s garden manager threatens further collective punishment and starvation at Nowera Nuddy.
Workers at the Tata Tea controlled Nowera Nuddy plantation in West Bengal in India have been threatened again with collective punishment and starvation, this time directly by the general manager of the garden, [...]
Nearly one thousand tea workers and their families continue to suffer collective punishment at the hands of India’s Tata Group.
Workers at the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate in West Bengal, India went without pay, food and rations from September 14 until December 12 last year following a protest in August over the mistreatment of Mrs. Arti [...]
Widespread gender discrimination needs to be tackled effectively to ensure that more female workers get access to vocational training, gain knowledge and skills and increase their competitiveness, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported experts as saying.
At a two-day conference in HCM City that ended on Feb 2, Trinh Thi Thu Nga, a senior official of the [...]
A jobless recovery is the scenario that appears from the just released ILO “Global Employment Trends 2010 Report”.
International Labour Organization 2010 data on employment trends do not come as a surprise. Still they are frightening as they show that there is no hope that employment rates will return soon to pre-crisis levels. Furthermore employment conditions [...]
27 January 2010 – The mounting number of jobless people around the world has climbed to an historic high with nearly 212 million unemployed last year – or 6.6 per cent of the global workforce – and the situation in Europe is likely to worsen before it gets better, according to a new United Nations [...]
On Dec. 9 the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an influential Washington, DC-based think tank, released “Rethinking Trade Policy for Development: Lessons From Mexico Under NAFTA,” a study on the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement and related neoliberal economic policies on Mexico’s economy.
The study found that in the period since the agreement [...]
Radio Australia | December 15, 2009
Taiwan fears China trade deal could cost jobs
Unions in Taiwan say they fear there could be huge job losses if a proposed free trade agreement is signed with mainland China. Talks on the deal are scheduled for next week between senior officials from Beijing and Taipei. The last round of [...]
Colombian trade unionists on Wednesday asked the EU not to sign an FTA with Colombia due to the human rights violations they believe to have been committed by the Uribe government.
Trade unionists and politicians denounced before the European Parliament supposed human rights abuses committed by the government of President Alvaro Uribe, and requested the EU [...]
Journalist, photographer and author, David Bacon, talks about his latest book, ILLEGAL PEOPLE: HOW GLOBALIZATION CREATES MIGRATION AND CRIMINALIZES IMMIGRANTS.
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Starred Review. In this incisive investigation of the global political and economic forces creating migration, journalist and former labor organizer Bacon [...]
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ASEAN’s Response to Global Crises Must Prioritise Women
The Committee for Asian Women (CAW) is calling ASEAN governments to recognise the labour market disadvantage facing women and to consider DECENT WORK targets for women. The governments should include migrant and informal workers in the labour protection system, as well as invest in social infrastructure – [...]
