SOUTH AFRICA: Nicola’s Notes: Fair p(l)ay “It would appear that strike season is (still) upon us. Strike season is something that news and business journalists mark in their calendars every year so they know to be on the look out for when workers will down tools for higher wages.” read more…http://www.iol
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SOUTH AFRICA:Workers’ demands for a living wage are reasonable “Workers are bargaining for higher wages within a difficult context in South Africa this year. This point was made repeatedly at the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa’s National Bargaining Conference held from 22-24 April 2016 in Johannesburg, under the theme “End the Economy for the 1%, Secure our Jobs on a Living Wage!”read more…http://www.dail
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SOUTH AFRICA: Vavi’s May Day call: New labour federation set for weekend launch “In what is described as a historic meeting, about 50 unions are set to meet this weekend to form a federation that could rival Cosatu and unite workers. They hope to rally the majority of South African workers who aren’t union members, while Cosatu has called the Workers Summit a self-serving sideshow.” read more…http://www.dai
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SOUTH AFRICA: Lily Mine must pay workers their salaries with immediate effect “The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) demands an immediate payment of salaries to hundreds of mineworkers at Lily Gold Mine in Barberton, Mpumalanga. The company was supposed to have paid workers their salaries last week Thursday.” read more…http://www.pol
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PARIS: Police hurt, scores arrested as French protests turn violent
“Two dozen police officers were injured, three of them seriously, as violence flared in mass protests across France against a hotly contested labour reform bill. Security forces in Paris responded with tear gas as masked youths threw bottles and cobblestones,...” read more…https://www.yah
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MIDDLE EAST: Israel frees 12yo Palestinian girl after 2 months in jail
“Palestinian 12-year-old Dima Al-Wawi has been released from an Israeli prison. She was sentenced to four-and-a-half months in custody for allegedly plotting to carry out a stabbing attack against Israelis in the Hebron area. She spent two-and-a-half months behind bars.” read more…https://www.rt
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ISTANBUL: Turkey’s Crackdown on Critics of Erdogan Snares Dutch Journalist “Ebru Umar, a Dutch journalist, wrote a column last week critical of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and his government’s growing crackdown on freedom of expression.” read more…http://www.nyt
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KYOTO: Japanese Police crack down on Zengakuren, arrest students for “obstructing university classes” “The police crackdown on the far left in Japan continues unabated. Following the two arrests at a Chūkaku-ha apartment (one was later released and another re-arrested) and recent Kakurōkyō raid,….“ read more…https://thr
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MACEDONIA: Social upheaval in times of neoliberalism: The deep roots of Macedonia’s protest wave
“Mass protests have vigorously and consistently spread across Macedonia for over ten days now. The spark of citizen revolt was caused by a Presidential blanket amnesty acquitting 56 officials…“ read more...http://www.bbc
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MIAMI: In an Age of Privilege, Not Everyone is in the Same Boat “Behind a locked door aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship is a world most of the vessel’s 4,200 passengers will never see. And that is exactly the point.“ read more…http://www.nyt
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EUROPE:28 April – International Workers Memorial Day – New health and safety laws now! “3,515 people died in reported accidents at work in the EU in 2012 – the last time the EU collected the statistics. 100,000 die in the EU every year from work-related cancers.“ read more…https://www.etu
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FRANKFURT: Marikana widows’ plea to BASF “BASF will face renewed scrutiny at Friday’s annual shareholder meeting about its sourcing of platinum from a South African mine where strikers were shot dead by police in 2012, this time from two of the widows.” read more…http://www.iol
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SWITZERLAND:Why workplace stress is a collective challenge and what to do about it “The relationship between workplace stress and poor mental health is well established. In our recent publication, Workplace Stress: A Collective Challenge , the ILO’s Safety and Health at Work team surveyed the most recent studies on workplace stress from around the world including, among others, Asia and the Pacific, the Americas, Australia and Europe.“ read more…http://www.wft
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USA:The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs “A convoy of self-driving trucks recently drove across Europe and arrived at the Port of Rotterdam. No technology will automate away more jobs — or drive more economic efficiency — than the driverless truck.“ read more…http://tec
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UK:The WFTU in solidarity with the Junior Doctors in Britain “On the occasion of the junior doctors strike in Britain, the World Federation of Trade Unions and its 92 million members around the world extend our solidarity to their continuous escalating struggle.“ read more…http://www.wft
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USA: How Facebook plans to take over the world
“It’s late afternoon on a blustery spring day on the waterfront at San Francisco’s Fort Mason, a former military base that’s now hired out for corporate functions. Vast warehouses, once used to store army supplies, are awash with sleek signs, shimmering lights and endless snacks.“ read more…https://www.the
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USA: When Facebook and Google finally destroy the competition, a new age of feudalism will arrive “Are we facing another tech bubble? Or, to put it in Silicon Valley speak, are most unicorn startups born zombies? How you answer these questions depends, by and large, on where you stand on the overall health of the global economy.“ read more…http://www.the
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