工人運動

Dragging On and On, HSWs under No Legal Protection! Changing Forever, CLA Tramples upon the Migrant Rights! A Statement by MENT 2009/08/26

Since 1984, the workforce at Alstom Power's (formerly BBC in Mannheim GmbH ABB) constantly forced to deal with demands for concessions in the wake of downsizing and restructuring of the company. Lastly, the council had agreed Betriebsvereinbarung 2003 by short-and shorter working hours and thus achieved a halving of the originally planned removal of 700 of the then 2000 employees. But in March 2005 showed that the contract was not worth the paper on which he stood. Alstom was again removed 900 of the 2000 supposedly "safe" places. However, BR and staff could come up with something. Inter alia They took the time to thoroughly discuss the situation - on a five-day staff meeting.

BELGRADE, Aug 28 (IPS) - A very hot summer of workers' discontent has taken over Serbia. Some 33,000 people go on strike daily in 40 to 45 firms, according to union statistics. They are mostly employees of privatised companies who have not been paid salaries or social and health security benefits for months now.

Community group says pay workers, not banks By Abayomi Azikiwe (Editor, Pan-African News Wire, Detroit) Source: Workers' World. Aug 26, 2009

Fremont, Calif. Source: Workers' World. Aug 31, 2009

Workers occupy UK factory James Illingworth looks at the impact of an occupation at a British wind turbine factory. Source: SocialistWorker.org. August 4, 2009

Taipei, Aug. 4, 2009 (CENS)--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world`s leading contract IC maker, may become the first hi-tech company in Taiwan with a labor union.

The Asia Floor Wage Alliance has been building towards a global movement for an Asia Floor Wage in the global garment industry. The process of building an Asia-centred union-led, industry-wide initiative has been inspiring and historic. The time has now come to publicly launch the campaign to win Asia Floor Wage for millions of workers who form the majority of the working poor in the world.

--A Catch and Trade Proposal for Labor Costs by Greg Moses Source: Dissident Voice. July 29th, 2009 The headline sounded so detached: “Murder of China steel exec shows privatisation risks.” At stake in the killing of the steel exec was fear of a massive job cut. 30,000 workers at the state-owned Tonghua Steel plant calculated that a takeover by a corporation from Beijing would result in the loss of 25,000 jobs.

The KCTU(Korean Confederation of Trade Unions) announces that all affiliate unions will go on general strike as of 22nd July. This general strike is to condemn police operation aimed at clamping down the striking workers at Ssangyong Motors Pyeongtaek Plant and to attain overall job security by reasonably normalizing Ssangyong Motors. The general strike also targets the government and ruling party’s attempts to make downgrade revisions to various laws – known collectively to public as ‘MB (Lee Myung Bak) Evil Bills’ - regarding irregular (precarious) workers, those that aim to allow domination of media by large conglomerates, and the revision to the Minimum Wage Act. The KCTU orders affiliate unions to organize a strong and determined general strike so that workers can stand forth in unity to counteract neoliberal policies and the Lee Myung Bak government.