Social Movement

Yesterday morning(21/5), the Taipei-based National Federation of Independent Trade Unions (全國自主勞工聯盟) and eleven other labour rights organizations (see below) protested outside the offices of Apple Computer in Taipei against the exploitation of workers in Taiwan and China by Apple's major flat-panel supplier Wintek. The organisations accuse Wintek of laying off over 600 workers in Taiwan without advance notice, cutting salaries without negotiation, forcing unpaid leave, trying to force workers to work overtime without overtime salaries, and laying off workers who protested against "foul working conditions". They demanded that Apple and WINTEK to promise to improve working conditions before May 31st, 2009. Read more about the allegations…

It's not for people and workers to pay for the crisis, the capitalists should pay! April 3, 2009, Strasbourg The next European elections will be held during the worst crisis capitalism has known since 1929.

Protest against Apple Computer Taiwan Time: 21 May 2009 (Thursday) AM10: 00 (about 60 people) Place: Apple Computer Taiwan (No.333, Sec. 2, Dunhua S. Rd., Da-an Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan)…

Wolfgang Schaumberg on the global strategy of the DGB and the IGM leadership

On May 11-15, the International Maritime Organization, the global body in charge of ships and navigation, will be coming to Hong Kong to unveil a treaty that will legalize the dangerous practice of breaking ships on the beach.

On May 11-15, the International Maritime Organization, the global body in charge of ships and navigation, will be coming to Hong Kong to unveil a treaty that will legalize the dangerous practice of breaking ships on the beach.

If you are holding an iPhone or an HTC in your hand, you might have contributed to the ordeals of nearly 8,000 factory workers in China and Taiwan, to speak of the least.

Billionaire fraudster Bernie Madoff may be behind bars, but his business model is alive and well. How can we keep high-flying bankers from pulling the same kind of bait-and-switch with taxpayers?