Category Archives: Labour
Calls to Protect Slaves Rescued From Tangerang Factory – The Jakarta Globe
A missing persons advocate has asked a government agency to protect 28 people who were rescued from a Tangerang factory after allegedly being held as slaves.The request by the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence Kontas of the government’s Witness and Victim Protection Agency LPSK came after Friday’s raid on the factory revealed […]
Mayday 1971: Most arrests in US history — RT USA
More than 200,000 protesters and veterans converged on the US capital to demand an end to the war in Vietnam forty years ago on May 3, 1971. “The idea was to shut the city down because the war wouldn’t stop,” said Eddie Becker, a documentarian who filmed the protests. “The only way to stop the […]
Lapanday workers complain of harassment after strike notice | Davao Today News, reports, commentary, blogs — Davao City, Mindanao, The Philippines
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — Union members of a packing factory and subsidiary of agribusiness magnate Lapanday Fruits Corporation complained they were harassed after they filed a Notice of Strike (NOS). Amidst a deadlock of the collective bargaining negotiations with their employers, members of the Lapanday Box and Plastic Plant Workers Union (LBPPWU) filed a strike […]
Workers’ Rights Movement in Pakistan Gains Momentum: Court Orders Arrest of Ali Enterprises Owners – Labor is Not a Commodity
The owners have been granted bail three times already, on September 14, on September 21, and on October 1: catastrophic kicks in the stomach to efforts of trade unions, labor rights activists and factory workers, and families of victims to hold the owners responsible for atrocious conditions that led to the fires, and properly mourn the […]
Amplats fires 12 000 workers ahead of talks | Business | Labour | Mail & Guardian
“Disciplinary hearings for striking Rustenburg mine employees have been completed and affected employees will be informed of the outcome of the hearings today,” it said in a statement. Employees would have three working days to appeal. “Approximately 12 000 striking employees chose not to make representations, nor attend the hearings, and have therefore been dismissed […]
How lawmakers and lobbyists keep a lock on the private prison business | Sadhbh Walshe | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Early in August, the Associated Press reported that America’s three largest private prison companies, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), GEO Group, Inc and Management and Training Corp spent in the region of $45m over the past 10 years in lobbying state and federal governments. During the same period, these companies saw their profits soar […]
South Africa’s Marikana Inquiry must be enabled to operate effectively | Amnesty International USA
The powers and ability of the Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the deaths of 44 people near Lonmin’s Marikana mine in August must be clarified to ensure justice and redress for all those affected, Amnesty International said today. Less than a week before the Commission of Inquiry, chaired by Justice Ian Farlam, begins its […]
Stop-and-Frisk Watch App | New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) – American Civil Liberties Union of New York State
Stop-and-Frisk Watch App | New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) – American Civil Liberties Union of New York State. “Stop and Frisk Watch” – a free and innovative smart phone application that will empower New Yorkers to monitor police activity and hold the NYPD accountable for unlawful stop-and-frisk encounters and other police misconduct. Stop and […]
South African police raid striking miners – Africa – Al Jazeera English
South African police have fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse protesters at a platinum mine where 45 people were killed over a deadly wage dispute that erupted at the beginning of August. Saturday’s show of force followed a government threat to halt illegal protests and disarm strikers who have stopped work at one […]
French Communist Party backs killing of South African miners
By Alex Lantier 21 August 2012 The World Socialist Web Site notes with contempt the French Communist Party’s defense of the massacre of 34 striking South African platinum miners by police at Marikana. After sympathetically quoting South African President Jacob Zuma and cynically expressing its “indignation and horror” at the violence, the brief communiqué published […]
