Trade and Labour

Tata Continues Collective Punishment of Indian Tea Workers

Feb 8th, 2010 | By cawinfo | Category: Trade and Labour

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 [...]



Gender Discrimination Blocks Vietnamese Women’s Job Training

Feb 8th, 2010 | By cawinfo | Category: Trade and Labour

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 [...]



ILO: Decisiveness that saved banks is needed to save and create jobs

Jan 31st, 2010 | By cawinfo | Category: Trade and Labour

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 [...]



Global unemployment hits highest levels on record, warns UN labour agency

Jan 28th, 2010 | By cawinfo | Category: Trade and Labour

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 [...]



US Think Tank Admits NAFTA Failed Mexico

Jan 6th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Trade agreements, Trade and Labour

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 [...]



Unions in Taiwan Fears China Trade Deal Could Cost Jobs

Jan 6th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Trade agreements, Trade and Labour

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 [...]



Trade Unionists Ask EU Not to Sign FTA with Colombia

Jan 6th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Trade agreements, Trade and Labour

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 [...]



How Globalisation Creates Migration and Criminalises Migration

Nov 11th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Migration and Labour, Trade and Labour

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 [...]



Advancing A Peoples’ ASEAN: A Continuing Dialogue

Oct 18th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Events, Events on Formal Economy Issues, Trade and Labour

Media Release
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 – [...]



US Taking A Fresh Look at US-S.Korea FTA

Oct 8th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Trade agreements, Trade and Labour

WASHINGTON – The United States said on Monday it was taking a fresh look at whether South Korea is giving US automakers enough access under a draft free trade agreement, which has been stalled by disputes.The deal, signed in 2007 but awaiting ratification by both nations’ legislatures, would phase out South Korea’s eight percent tariff [...]