International unions

Tell Wal-Mart, Chong Won management, and the Philippines Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) that this continued violence against workers and flagrant trampling of workers rights will NOT be tolerated!

Action request to help workers at Nike/adidas plant

Anti-union dismissals at the brewery in Cap-Haïtien*
- 17 March 2007

News from Labour Behind the Label: trade unionists intimidated and threatened
with abduction

Nike has told us it cares deeply about workers' rights...

On February 24, Hy Vuthy, president of the Free Trade Union of Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia (FTUWKC) at the Suntex garment factory, was shot dead while riding his motorbike home after finishing his night shift at the factory, located in Phnom Penh's Dangkao districut.

Activists suspect that he was murdered for his union activity.

Read on for more info and follow the link to send an email of protest now!

For years, workers in Colombia have demanded that Coke take responsibility for its role in the murder of union leaders. Last year, Coke announced that, instead of meeting the workers demands, they would participate in an "investigation". Read on form more info and to tell them to Act now!

Find below the good news from the union Teksif in the Paxar casein Turkey. On February 26th 2007 Teksif and Paxar Turkey signed a collective contract and protocol, including pay rises and official recognition for their union. Also the issue of the
dismissed workers has been dealt with. Thank you to all who sent emails or got involved in supporting the case.

The independent Iraqi union movement, often under attack from the so-called 'resistance' has been raided by US and Iraqi state force.
Send a protest email...

Latest on union struggle at Coca Cola plant in Haiti.

The movement against the far-right in Bolivia stepped up last month with a mass uprising in the nation's third city, Cochabamba, which dislodged the right-wing governor Manfred Reyes Villa and put forward the demand for genuinely democratic representatives...

Andres Aullet, a lawyer involved in a Committee of Relatives of Political Prisoners of Oaxaca recently toured the UK speaking about the situation in Mexico. The tour was organised by No Sweat. Paul Hampton interviewed him.

The GMB union has organised co-ordinated international protests against Burberry on Valentines Day, 14 February.
Burberry says it is closing its unionised South Wales factory to move garment production to Chinese sweatshops.
Burberry has yet to give assurances that the two factories in Shenzhen in the Guangdong province of China where production is likely to be moved to will not employ child labour or use forced, prison labour.

Your solidarity is appreciated.
Watch the site for details of protests and for dates of our forthcoming UK Oaxaca speaker tour.
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Last year Group 4 attacked Indonesian workers, this time it is Panama... Click here to send a protest email

Help Indian workers by reading their story and sending a protest email...

Report on the situation in Oaxaca, Mexico, from Mexico Labor News. Plus time-line of the events in Oaxaca.