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Interview with a leader of a Fukushima teachers' union
In FY2012, wages of national government employees were reduced by 7.8% in order to relocate fund to programs for reconstruction from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disasters. The pay cut was extended to local government employees in FY2013 and salaries of teachers and other personnel working for public schools in Fukushima Prefecture were reduced by 4.44 to 7.77% in July 2013. "The workloads of teachers and other school personnel have increased since the disasters, and they have been striving in difficult situations. The government is indebted to them and ought to have increased allowances. Instead, the government reduced their salaries. It is totally unacceptable," said ABE Akihiko (photo), the secretary general of Koriyama Branch of Fukushima Teachers' Union in an interview conducted on December 12. 534 divisions of the union, including all the divisions of Koriyama Branch, adopted a resolution opposing to the pay cut. As a result, the government decided to discontinue it as of January 2014. (By YUMOTO Masanori)
YUMOTO Masanori
2013/12/30
Laid-off steelworkers protest over lack of compensation
300 laid-off steelworkers from the Wugang Iron and Steel factory in Henan province protested last week over lack of compensation following their dismissal. The workers are reported to have marched to the city government offices for help recovering the compensation. However when government officials did not come out to speak with them, the workers blocked a road. The authorities then sent more than two hundred police to forcibly disperse the workers, resulting in several workers being injured.
2013/12/23
Protest against the suppression on the Korean Railway Workers’ Union
HKCTU will organize a protest against the Korean Government to condemn their violation of the right to strike of Korean Railway Workers’ Union (KRWU) and to call for release of all the arrested strikers. The KRWU launched a general strike since December 9 against the move to privatize the state-run rail operator (Korea Railroad Corp). According to the statement of KRWU, their intention of the strike is to protect the public ownership of the Railway in Korea. However, their fight for justice was under violence attack by the Korean Government. On December 22, hundreds of riot police raided the KCTU's headquarters in Seoul injuring hundreds due to the use of pepper spray and violence. Since then, warrants for the arrest of 28 union officers have been issued based on criminal charges of ’obstruction of business’.
2013/12/23
Workers at an Auto Spare Parts Company in Yantai City Strike to Demand Re-election of Workplace Union
The company is called Yantai Dongxing Pipeline Co. Ltd. According to its website, it is a Sino-foreign joint venture. According to the workers’ report, it manufactured spare parts for Honda and BMW.
2013/12/08
Cambodia garment workers' protest turns deadly
One person was killed and 20 others injured after police in Cambodia clashed with protesting garment workers, according to rights groups.
2013/11/18
PAL, PALEA ends two-year old labor dispute
The Philippine Airlines, Inc. (PAL) and the Philippine Airlines Employees’ Association (PALEA) have finally settled a dispute over an outsourcing program implemented in September 2011.
PNA and Philippine Times of Southern Nevada
2013/11/18
Coca-Cola workers win job demands
Some 300 striking delivery workers at the Coca-Cola factory in Sha Tin went back to work yesterday after the company's management agreed to their demands following hours of talks about work conditions overnight.
2013/10/07
Free Wu Guijun, Defend the Worker’s Right to Strike! Please Co-sign and Support!
To Mr. Xu Qin, Mayor of Shenzhen City, Mrs. Luoli, President of the municipal federation in Shenzhen We are writing to ask the Mayor of Shenzhen City and the municipal federation in Shenzhen…
2013/09/30
Parents of Koroshi victim ask LDP: “Will you let WATANABE stand?
June 28 the parents of MORI Mina, who killed herself due to overwork at Watami, visited Liberal Democratic Party headquarters to ask party leaders why it was sending a person who intentionally killed their daughter to the parliament. WATANABE Miki, ex-president of the Watami fast-food restaurant chain, is going to stand for the upcoming upper house election from the LDP in the proportional representation constituency. Mori’s father, Takeshi, strongly criticized Mori at the press conference. “Watami’s motto is ‘Work 24 hours a day 365 days a year till your die’. So I can say the company deliberately killed my daughter. They employed her with the intention to kill her and made her work for low wages and said they were not accountable for her death. I should call him a hardened criminal.” When asked what he was going to ask the Party, Mori replied,” I just want to ask ‘Are you really going to run someone like him as a candidate?’.” (MATSUMOTO Chie)
2013/08/20
Do not let the army fool you” – independent union leader speaks out
This statement was made by Fatma Ramadan, member of the Executive Committee of the Egyptian Federation of Independent Trade Unions on Friday, July 26, 2013.
Fatma Ramadan
2013/08/06
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