February 15, 2010
Bangkok
There are 6 million Indonesian migrant workers according to 2009 data from Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration Republic of Indonesia and National Authority for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers, (BNP2TKI), and 75% or 4,5 million of them are working as domestic workers in South East Asia, East Asia and Middle [...]

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 [...]

Members of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) are vowing to fight as long as it takes to defeat the government’s heavy-handed, anti-union moves to break its independent union.
Speaking at a brown-bag luncheon last week at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., Humberto Montes de Oca, SME’s interior secretary, and union Health Secretary Pipino Cuevas said [...]

Kim Young-hoon, the 42 year old former head of Korean Transport Workers’ Union (KTWU), has been selected as the new chairman of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU).
 Kim won the election by securing 376 votes of the total 723 votes that were cast (52 percent) at a regular KCTU convention meeting held at the [...]

The strike by three thousand workers launched by the IUF-affiliated Food and Allied Workers’ Union (FAWU) on December 22 at SAB Miller’s ABI Soft Drinks Division has now entered its second month.
The union is demanding a 9.5% wage increase, fair overtime payment for Saturday work and an end to the further use of labour brokers [...]

At a factory blockade of a Michelin tire plant in Laem Chabang, Thailand, on 20 March 2009, workers protested against a harsh 35% pay cut. Following the manifestation, 22 union activists were arrested, suspended from their jobs, with management taking out criminal charges against them. (See ICEM news release on that here.)
Those 22 unionists, members [...]

Tear-stricken faces of helpless women and children trapped on the roofs of their houses, massive destruction of properties, deaths—these grim images during the onslaught of storms Ondoy and Pepeng still remain fresh in the minds of Filipino women.
As the fight for justice for the victims of calamities continue, women under GABRIELA stormed the United States [...]

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 [...]

An awareness meeting organized by Beej Bachao Andolan (Save Seeds Movement) in Uttarakhand, India, as part of the people’s Year of Rice Action (YORA) grew into a larger struggle, protest rally and victory for the people of the region. Held in Upli Nagni (Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand), the rally was part of a regional people’s [...]