Chris is a labour law researcher, specialising in China and the right to strike. He spent 27 years in the SA union movement. Chris now lives in Canberra. More →
New strike hits Honda parts supplier in China http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/7590095/new-strike-hits-honda-parts-supplier-in-china/ Don Durfee, Reuters July 15, 2010, 3:54 pm HONG KONG (Reuters) – A strike has broken out at a south China factory supplying parts for Japan’s Honda Motor, the latest in a string of stoppages by Chinese workers demanding a bigger piece of the country’s economic [...]
Abott and Abetz claim WorkChoices is cremated. They will keep Gillard’s Fair Work Act ‘that is not bad’, but with ‘tweaking’. The ruling corporations and employer organisations know major sections of WorkChoices remain in the Fair Work Act. Gillard and Crean promise no changes to the Fair Work Act. Australian workers campaigned for Our Rights [...]
LabourStart’s Global Solidarity Conference: Eric Lee LabourStart held its first Global Solidarity Conference last week at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. The conference opened on Friday, 9 July with a session we called “LabourStart 101”. It was supposed to be an introduction to the LabourStart project for those who may not have been familiar and [...]
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Review of Michael Lebowitz’s Socialist Alternative by Douglas W. Greene Michael Lebowitz. The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010. Pp 192; $15.95 Only about ten or fifteen years ago, leftist theory was in a sorry state. It seemed as if socialism had ceased to be [...]
Where to Begin: New Perspectives on Chinese Labor By Mark W. Frazier Studies of labor in China have taken an exciting turn in recent years with the publication of numerous rich and revealing portraits of workers, their jobs, and their place in Chinese politics and in the global economy. As thousands of migrant workers employed [...]
SHANGHAI – Collective contracts as part of an effective negotiation mechanism between workers and employers will help mitigate labor unrests that have hit parts of the country recently, the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) said on Thursday. “The signing of collective contracts is key to protecting workers’ rights as it … provides a [...]
Retired meatworker and non-retired working class militant, socialist and poet, Jim Sharp, has published a collection of his poems – Leftside. A book of poetry by an authentic australian working class voice Saturday 31st July 3:00pm – 5:00pm Qld Council of Unions Building 16 Peel St., South Brisbane Refreshments available (gold coin donation) Program includes: [...]
WILL THE NEW PM ACT ON CLIMATE CHANGE? by Geoff Lazarus With the ascension of Julia Gillard to PM many Australians will be asking themselves whether Labor will finally deliver on the ‘great moral challenge of our times’ that Kevin Rudd and his Ministers postured over time and again in the last two years. It [...]
Workers at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Pakistan have recently been faced with death threats, abduction, firings, extortion, forgery and fraud — all because they tried to form a trade union. Coca-Cola is a company that recognizes unions in many countries, including the USA where it is headquartered. But in southern Pakistan, it is refusing [...]
