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Somyot on trial
Gepubliceerd op 13 mrt, 2012Somyot's trial will be held from 18 April onwards. The hearings will be held in Criminal Court of Bangkok. If you are planning come to Bangkok to observe the trial, or to send a solidarity message, please email the support committee at: freesomyot@gmail.com
Violations of workers’ rights in MAS DAF Turkey continue
Gepubliceerd op 1 aug, 2011Call for solidarity with Turkish colleagues regarding protest rallies this week.
Condamnation of the acts of the Atlantic Breeder Company/Monsanto Group for seed production in Morocco
Trade Union Statement:
The regional section of the National Federation for the Agricultural Sector (FNSA), affiliated to the trade union confederation UMT, strongly condemns the dismissal of Mr. Hassan Azizi, cadre/breeder and team leader at the Agadir site of the company, after the creation of a trade union branch of FNSA at the plant.
Samsung workers in Mexico on hunger strike - Solidarity needed
Gepubliceerd op 20 jul, 2011
Four female workers, unfairly fired and victims of workplace abuse, have caged themselves and sewn their lips shut as they launch a hunger strike and one threatens to burn herself alive in a dramatic protest against the multinational corporation Samsung. We ask all organizations to declare their demands through the sending of communiqués!
Birlesik Metal Is decided to go to strike at 33 companies!
Birlesik Metal-Is Members are calling international trade union movement to support their struggle and to be in Solidarity with their strike!
BKDP statement on presidential elections and violation of human rights
Minsk, 21 December 2010
The Council of Trade Union Association of Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions expresses its deep concern about events that have taken place during and after the Presidential elections on December 19-20 in Minsk. We are indignant at massacre and reprisals, committed by security forces at the Independence Square in Minsk on 19 and 20 December against many of the participants of the rally which was attended by dozens of thousands of people. The motives causing brutal beatings and violence against human beings can neither be explained nor excused.
Belarus: Nationwide tragedy against the background of speachless silence of the regime
The BKDP Council made a statement in connection with deaths of workers, who perished in a blast occurred at “Pinskdrev” Furniture Company on October 25. The nationwide tragedy has happened but the regime is keeping speechless silence.Seminar ‘Youth, the trade union movement, and politics in Brazil’
Gepubliceerd op 19 okt, 2010
Urgent Alert: Mexican Auto parts workers assaulted at Johnson Controls factory
Gepubliceerd op 19 aug, 2010(http://en.maquilasolidarity.org/node/954)
On August 16, 2010, thugs entered a plant owned by Johnson Controls in Puebla, Mexico, and assaulted them, according to reports, "with sticks and stones, leaving many injured." Two of the members of the Executive Committee of the newly formed union at the plant, Cándido Barreucos and Vigilio Melendez, were beaten in a company office and forced to sign letters of resignation, reportedly at gunpoint. They are currently in a hospital with severe injuries.
