As soon as Ram's death was discovered, workers stopped work and protested in front of the Baddi factory denouncing the company's drive for profit at the expense of safety and workers' lives.
This policy will give Nestlé workers the right to a minimum of 14 weeks' paid leave and will be a welcome improvement in countries, such as the United States, where maternity protection legislation is lacking.
Nearly twenty years after Indonesia freed itself from an oppressive military dictatorship, workers at the Coca-Cola Indonesia are still waiting for rights at the workplace.
In addition, the workers alleged that EGL was liable for unlawful wage deductions, waiting time periods and violations of the state's unfair competition law.
The workers marched to a Lotte Mart after denouncing the company's anti-union policy at a rally at the Cheongju plant and have called on the company to comply with the law and resume bargaining in good faith.
In a new lawsuit, the workers say the owner of Bimbo's Best Produce illegally seized their passports and forced them to work as strawberry pickers from 2006 to 2008.
The workers who went on strike during February 9~11, however, did so outside of the ETUF structure, forming strike committees to lead and represent them.
The workers showed enormous bravery and willingness to fight, and they forged links with soldiers, who viewed themselves as the defenders of socialism.
The workers had arranged a microphone to speak out about their oppression, but as soon as they started speaking, police charged upon them in an attempt to dissipate them.
Will China's workers, now and in the future, view unions as"stalwarts of the world's democratic movement", or as organizations tainted by engagement with an ACFTU that remains inherently part of the very machinery that brutally repressed courageous workers and students 25 years ago?
Remembering Tiananmen Working people in Hong Kong will gather on June 4 to keep alive the promise and the memory of China's 1989 democracy movement and workers' self-organized autonomous trade unions that challenged the official trade union structures of the Party-state.
(Kuwait City)- Domestic workers in Kuwait who try to escape abusive employers face criminal charges for"absconding" and are unable to change jobs without their employer's permission, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
India: Tea workers denounce agreement on starvation wages, continue fight for a living wage Tea workers in West Bengal have rejected the tripartite wage agreement signed on February 20 that sets wages below the poverty line for the next three years.
Novoprof tackles massive wage arrears and precarious jobs at Sbarro fast food restaurants in Russia The IUF-affiliated Novoprof is supporting and organizing workers at the Moscow restaurants of the international fast food chain Sbarro, where workers have not been paid since July 2015.
Workers emerged as an independent self-organized force in the 1989 democracy movement with the formation of the Workers Autonomous Federations, which mobilized workers to take part in the protests and organized pickets to defend the protesters in Tiananmen Square.
On Saturday, negotiations began at the Fair Work Commission, and on Sunday workers voted to accept an agreement which brings a solid wage-increase over three years and retains all conditions which management had sought to erase.
Despite the introduction of a national minimum wage in Germany and a voluntary collective agreement for the meat sector, many migrant workers still live in appalling conditions with low pay and with exorbitant deductions for transport and housing costs.
Faced with abusive working conditions, low wages, management corruption, arbitrary transfers and management's failure to implement the new Employment Act, workers at the resort joined the Tourism Employees Association of the Maldives(TEAM) in 2008 and attempted to raise these issues with management.
Independent unions challenge the zero rights regime at Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia Nearly twenty years after Indonesia freed itself from an oppressive military dictatorship, workers at the Indonesian operations of The Coca-Cola Company's Australian-based bottler Coca-Cola Amatil(CCA) are still waiting for democratic rights at the workplace.
As each year passed, as each factory closed in the heartland of America, as each new skyscraper went up in Beijing, American workers grew only more disheartened, and China grew only more emboldened.
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