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Apple in China

By on January 26, 2012 in China, Collective Bargaining

In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA January 25, 2012 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?ref=global-home

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Insecure work

By on January 19, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Unionism, WorkChoices, Workers Rights

Independent Inquiry into Insecure Work in Australia http://securejobs.org.au/ I recommend two changes for more secure work. 1. Amend the Fair Work Act to have an effective right to strike. 2. Amend the Fair Work Act to restrict casual and other forms of precarious work to a limited period and apply more secure contracts of employment. [...]

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Canadian labour

By on January 18, 2012 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

Canadian Labour At The Crossroads? Doug Nesbitt A wage cut of fifty per cent. An elimination of pensions. Cuts to benefits. These demands have inevitably led to a major showdown at a locomotive factory in London, Ontario between the 700 unionized workers of Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) and Caterpillar, a massive U.S.-based corporation. The workers, members [...]

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Review: We Built this Country

By on January 18, 2012 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Book Review, Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

We Built This Country – Builders’ Labourers and their Unions, by Humphrey McQueen, Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, 2011, 364pp, $30.00 Review by Howard Guille This is the second book of Humphrey McQueen’s research into builders’ labourers and their unions. Read it, as the author says, with the earlier volume ‘Framework of Flesh: Builders’ labourers battle [...]

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Sit down strikes

By on January 9, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Right to Strike, US politics, Workers Rights

Anniversary of the 1937 US sit-down strike wave: Remembering another Occupy movement Sit-in strikers at General Motors’ Fisher No. 1 plant. By Don Fitz [See also With Babies & Banners, the classic 1977 documentary about the 1936-37 Flint sit-down strike, and the role of women in it.] January 3, 2012 – Links International Journal of [...]

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Union arrests in Timor Leste

By on January 7, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Timor-Leste, Unionism, Workers Rights

You may know of these developments. Please notify support networks… THREE UNION MEMBERS DISMISSED FROM MANDIRI BANK FOR DEFENDING WORKERS’ RIGHTS Mandiri Bank in Timor-Leste recently dismissed three of its employees for defending workers’ rights. The individuals concerned are Brother Joaquim Gonzaga, Brother Helder do Rego Barreto and Brother Leonardo Bele Bau Amaral. The dismissals [...]

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GM occupied

By on December 30, 2011 in Collective Bargaining, Unionism, US politics, Workers Rights

75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy By Michael Moore On this day, December 30th, in 1936 — 75 years ago today — hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took over the facilities and occupied them for 44 days. My uncle was one of them. The workers couldn’t take the [...]

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Schweppes locks out workers

By on December 28, 2011 in Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Unionism, Workers Rights

Read here for the details. Say to retailers that you do not want to buy Schweppes products. As argued on this blog, here is another reason why the lawful lock-out ought to be denied to the more poweful employer. Workers and their unions have such a limited right to strike that our so-called “fair” bargaining [...]

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Worst anti-union companies

By on December 28, 2011 in Collective Bargaining, Labour Law, Right to Strike, Unionism, US politics, Workers Rights

This Year’s Worst Companies to Work for if You Want the Right to Join a Union By Liana Foxvog and Sean Rudolph, International Labor Rights Forum Today we published our list of this year’s Scrooges for workers’ right to unionize. The companies that topped our list are Dole, Hershey’s, Philippine Airlines, and Wal-Mart. These corporations [...]

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