CIU mourns union members among victims of Maguindanao Massacre
The victims included in the gruesome Maguindanao Massacre
The Confederation of Independent Unions in the Public Sector (CIU) mourns the death of four (4) union members of the Tacurong City Employees Association (TACEA-CIU) who were among those killed in Maguindanao last Monday.
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Global Network Asia holds regional conference on the ILO Convention for Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
The conference opened by Elizabeth Tang (Chief Executive of the HKCTU), Sue Schurman (IFWEA Pres.), Sahra Ryklief (IFWEA Sec-Gen), Rey Rasing (LEARN/GN-Asia Coordinator), Josef Weidenholzer (Solidar), Hannu Ohvo (Sask)and Cheung Lai-ha (HKCTU Women Affairs Committee).
More than 80 domestic workers, trade unionists and international labor activists joined the GN-Asia regional conference in Hong Kong last 16-17 August 2009. The focus of the conference was the discussion on the proposed ILO Convention on Domestic Workers.
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Collective punishment: A new wave of unionisation in the private sector is being met with intimidation by the owners
Protesting workers in Pakistan are met with violence and aggression from authorities
\"On May 25, I got home around 9 pm. I found several men inside my home and on the rooftop. They blindfolded me and took me away in a police van while ruthlessly torturing me, telling me how they\'ll \'teach\' me what it means to be a trade union leader,\" says Niaz Khan, General Secretary Carpet Workers Trade Union, Lahore. Khan\'s crime, according to him, was facilitating the workers of a furniture manufacturer establish a trade union last month. After being kidnapped from home, Khan says, he was taken to the CIA centre in Model Town, Lahore.
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Walden takes a seat in the Parliament
Walden Bello, the new party-list representative of Akbayan in the Philippine parliament.
Walden Bello, renowned author and political activisit, takes the second seat for the Akbayan party-list as member of the Lower House in the Philippine Parliament. After the long court battle against the COMELEC, the Supreme Court ruled last April 2009 in favor to the party-list organizations that questioned COMELEC\'s exclusion of 22 seats for the party-list representatives.
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Labor Day Rally in Cambodia
Trade unions composed mostly of women under the CWMO spearheaded this Labor Day celebrations.
The Cambodia Women Organization Movement (CWMO) led this huge rally to commemorate the International Labor Day on May 1, 2009 in the capital of Phnompenh.
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Labor Day celebrations in Manila calls for political change in the midst of global economic crisis
APL trade unionists marching with Akbayan party-list representatives who joined the Labor Day mobilization
Formal and informal workers affiliated with the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) demands broad and comprehensive political and economic change amidst the global capitalist countries. Thousands of trade unionists in the private and public sectors marched for secure employment and political change as the economy moves towards recession in the Philippines.
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Dusit Hotel Nikko workers protest Supreme Court ruling
Dusit Hotel Nikko workers re-enact the Stations of the Cross during a protest rally outside the Supreme Court in Manila. (Photo by Benjie Castro / GMANews.tv)
Dusit Hotel Nikko workers protest Supreme Court ruling upholding the company\'s dismissal of trade union officers after shaving their heads to protest unfair labour practices and CBA violations in 2004. The Dusit workers are members of the National Union of Workers in Hotel, Restaurant and Allied Industries (NUWHRAIN) and the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL)
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Toshiba workers in Indonesia stage Strike!
Toshiba workers held rallies and marches to protest the company lock-out after dispute over CLA
More than 900 Indonesian trade unionists of Toshiba are on strike since April 16, 2009 to protest the company\\\\\\\'s non-recognition of their Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) signed both by the union and company. Furthermore, the company dismissed the 15 elected trade union leaders on April 16 which became the deciding point to hold a strike.
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The ‘Voter’s Uprising’ that is changing perceptions in Thailand
Protest actions, Thai style
Source: By Jessaj on Flickr
After the September 2006 military coup that deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra we pointed-out that whatever the justifications used to legitimise the Coup, the action of the military was as disloyal as always to the legitimate demands of the people, and we made a simple observation: “. . if there is going to be anything resembling sustainable development in Thailand, the emphasis in Thai politics must be on making sure that the political demands of the new, urban classes are satisfied without further undermining the livelihoods and life-styles of the agrarian community upon which the future of Thailand depends.”.
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