Labour news from Asia
Asia
Can Worker Safety Momentum in Bangladesh Last? 2013-05-17 [VOA] Women transport workers call for end to violence 2013-05-16 [ITF]
ITF president greets Asia/Pacific Conference 2013-05-15 [ITF]
Afghanistan
IFJ Condemns Murder of Journalist in Afghanistan 2013-05-16 [IFJ] Unemployment fuels Afghanistan insecurity 2013-04-15 [AJ]
Afghan women unleashing their business potential 2013-03-12 [ILO]
Armenia
Protecting Workers’ Rights 2012-12-05 [Asbarez] Chemical Plant Workers Again Protest In Yerevan 2012-11-29 [azatutyun]
Armenia marks Bank Employee Day 2012-11-23 [panaroma]
Azerbaijan
5th Congress of the Federation of Trade Unions of Constructional Complex Workers Decides on Union Growth Strategy 2012-09-28 [BWI] Conference of Railway Employees Trade Unions held in Azerbaijan 2012-04-26 [ABC]
IFJ Calls for Swift Action to Bring to Book Killers of Prominent Journalist in Azerbaijan 2011-11-28 [IFJ]
Australia
South Australia About 30 staff at iconic Adelaide store Trims out of a job 2013-05-19 [Sunday Mail] South Australia Labor MP Nick Champion seeks tariffs to save Holden jobs 2013-05-19 [Sunday Mail]
South Australia 270 workers at Holden's Elizabeth plant want voluntary redundancy 2013-05-19 [Sunday Mail]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh Seamstress: 'I Had No Choice but to Go to Work' ActNOW! 2013-05-19 [Der Spiegel] Garment industry labour leaders under intelligence watch ActNOW! 2013-05-19 [Labour News]
Garment workers stage demo at Ashulia 2013-05-19 [The New Age]
Bhutan
Ministry of labour resolves dispute 2010-07-23 [Kuensel]
Brunei
Burma
Youth employment in Myanmar 2013-05-16 [ILO] Minimum Wage Law to go to Parliament 2013-05-14 [Mizzima]
Parliament to describe minimum wage 2013-05-11 [Eleven]
Cambodia
Workers protest over factory bankruptcy rumors 2013-05-18 [The Herald] The Story: Three Cambodian Garment Workers Shot at Puma Supplier Factory 2013-05-18 [vodhotnews]
Seek justice for Cambodian garment workers shot at Puma supplier factory 2013-05-18 [CLEC]
China
A More Democratic Foxconn? No One Told the Workers 2013-05-16 [In These Times] Police abuse female sex workers in Beijing 2013-05-14 [Human Rights Watch]
End violence against sex workers 2013-05-14 [Human Rights Watch]
Hong Kong
HKCTU End of Strike Statement 2013-05-17 [All On The Same Ocean] Changed Social Landscape Emerges from Dock Strike 2013-05-17 [All On The Same Ocean]
Hong Kong dock strike ends 2013-05-15 [AJ]
India
Tamil Nadu Metro workers get their wages 2013-05-19 [The Hindu] Andhra Pradesh Migration of coconut workers on the rise 2013-05-19 [The Hindu]
Kerala Pension is the right of employees: VS 2013-05-19 [The Hindu]
Indonesia
Union says Freeport Indonesia mine should stay shut to probe tunnel collapse 2013-05-18 [Reuters] Working Class hero trade union award goes to Said Iqbal 2013-05-17 [IndustriALL Global Union]
Set Edi Iriawadi Free! 2013-05-17 [IndustriALL Global Union]
Japan
Nagasaki firms warned for sending workers to stricken nuke plant 2013-05-12 [Kyodo] Back to life after the Great East Japan Earthquake 2013-04-03 [ILO]
Printing firm raided over workers’ bile duct cancer 2013-04-03 [Japan Times]
Kazakhstan
Independent media under fire 2013-03-10 [BBC] New York Composer Writes Requiem For Victims Of Zhanaozen Oil Worker Massacre 2013-02-10 [Radio Liberty/RFE]
Struggle Ahead for Wives of Janaozen Convicts 2013-02-01 [Ground Report]
Korea
Hyundai Row With Union Causes Major Production Disruptions 2013-04-18 [FOX] Probe finds rampant labor law violations by E-Mart 2013-02-28 [K. Herald]
GM Korea's use of workers from subcontractors ruled illegal 2013-02-28 [K. Times]
Kyrgyzstan
Controversial Labour Code adoption now delayed after local and global union campaign 2012-03-29 [International Metalworkers Federation] Global union protests against new degraded labour code 2012-03-27 [Internationsl Metalworkers Federation]
Possible changes to labour legislation impacts on trade union rights 2012-03-20 [BWI]
Laos
Trade union federation working to halt labour oppression 2013-04-30 [The Times] Laos, Vietnam amend labour cooperation agreement 2012-10-23 [Vientiane Times]
IMF cautious over civil service salary hike 2012-10-22 [RFA]
Malaysia
Student activist arrested under Sedition act 2013-05-19 [Malaysian Insider] Palm Oil for the West, Exploitation for Young Workers 2013-04-12 [The Atlantic]
Construction worker dies in crane accident 2013-04-03 [NST]
Maldives
Maldives Journalists Association (MJA) drafting bill for minimum wage, health insurance 2013-05-06 [Minivan News] ITF calls on new ports CEO to bring Maldives dispute to an end 2013-04-13 [ITF]
IFJ condemns arrest of Maldivian journalist 2013-04-02 [IFJ]
Mongolia
Government to set the limit of foreign workers 2012-12-27 [Business-Mongolia] Social Benefit Costs Increased Ten-fold from 2006 2012-10-18 [UBP]
Mongolian miners claim injustice 2012-06-26 [AJ]
Nepal
Trade unions flay pact to ban strikes in industrial corridor 2013-05-16 [Republica] GEFONT asks to withdraw latest decision of the Constitutional Council 2013-05-16 [GEFONT]
Printing workers' strike shuts a dozen newspapers 2013-05-10 [Republica]
Pakistan
Labourers win two-decade long battle 2013-05-19 [Labour News] Mondelez/Cadbury Pakistan tells union it is illegal to advocate for contract workers 2013-05-15 [IUF]
Workers confederation for reforms in budget 2013-05-07 [Labour News]
Philippines
Privatization will affect poor patients, government health workers 2013-05-17 [bulatlat] NUJP releases guidelines for safe election coverage 2013-05-14 [IFJ]
Pro labor need not be anti employer 2013-05-14 [PhilStar]
Singapore
Wage rises likely to exceed inflation: Report 2013-05-15 [ST] Singapore begins inquiry into US worker's death 2013-05-14 [JP]
74% of S'poreans unhappy with bonus payout: survey 2013-05-07 [CNA]
Sri Lanka
TU's opp parties plan massive protest against electricity tariff 2013-05-19 [Labour News] Trade unions, opposition parties in Sri Lanka plan massive protest against electricity tariff hike and government 2013-05-17 [Colombo Page]
FUTA under pressure to join strike 2013-05-16 [The Island]
Taiwan
Philippines fears for workers in Taiwan amid row 2013-05-17 [JP] Local nurses earn average NT$41,878 per month: Taiwan Nurse Union 2013-05-10 [China Post]
Government still not meeting with workers on hunger strike 2013-05-05 [Taipei Times]
Tajikistan
Moscow's recession has seen the sacking of thousands of guest workers from the central Asian republics. 2009-04-12 [The Observer] Workers stage rare strike over pay in Tajikistan 2009-04-01 [Reuters]
Tajik Embassy Failing to Protect Guest Workers in Russia, Activists Say 2009-01-27 [Georgian Daily]
Thailand
Andy Hall Defamation Trial Postponed Again ActNOW! 2013-05-07 [Bangkok Post] Employers delay case against human rights activist once again ActNOW! 2013-05-07 [Stronger Unions]
Defamation Case Against British Migrant Rights Activist Puts Thailand in the Dock ActNOW! 2013-05-06 [Irrawaddy]
Tibet
83 workers buried in Tibet landslide 2013-03-30 [The Hindu] IFJ Urges China to Uphold Post-Olympic Press Freedom Promises 2012-02-07 [IFJ]
Lhasa locals happy in labour union 2010-03-17 [China Tibet Online]
Turkey
Strike at Turkish Airlines 2013-05-18 [ITF] Justice for workers after May Day clashes in Turkey 2013-05-17 [IndustriALL Global Union]
Our Turkish unionism needs urgent reforms 2013-05-17 [Hurriyet Daily News]
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Day laborers set up trade union 2013-04-22 [UZNews] My Cotton Picking Life: Computer Game Highlights Uzbek Child Labor Practices 2013-02-23 [RFE/Radio Liberty]
Forced Labor Widespread in Cotton Harvest 2013-01-26 [Human Rights Watch]
Vietnam
UN official opinion document on jailed Vietnamese unionists 2013-05-13 [Committee to Protect Vietnamese Workers] Employers complain amended Labour Code is ‘heavy burden' 2013-05-13 [VIetnamNet]
Killing Vietnamese workers with asbestos 2013-05-12 [RadioLabour]
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