Union Work

 

Union Organizing Makes the Difference at McDonald's
Carol Beaumont, NZCTU Media Release

Workers of the World Unite Against Starbucks
Liza Featherstone, The Nation

Lockout at Auckland Hotel
Report from EPMU, photos from The Standard

Ka Bel Condemns Attempt to Slay Southern Tagalog and Human Rights Advocate Delfin Mallari
Media Release

Beltran Bemoans Boorish Behaviour
Media Release

Ka-Bel Elated At Chance to Put His Case
Media Release

Free Ka-Bel!
Campaign to Release Philippine Trade Unionist Crispin Beltran

Hotel Restaurant Occupied Over Missing Wages
NewsRoom.co.nz

Union Flags Top Auckland's Prime Real Estate
Joseph Barrat, Te Waha Nui On Line

Birth of the First Global Super-union
By Oliver Morgan, Guardian (UK)

Vicious Attack by Coca-Cola on Workers Rights
IUF Media Release/Appeal for Solidarity

Minimum Wage Increase Welcomed
Greens Media Release

Support the Locked Out Distribution Workers
How you can help ...

Numsa Plans Marches on US and EU Embassies over Tariff Reductions
Media Release from National Union Of Metalworkers Of South Africa

Solidarity Action in Aust with Locked-out NZ Workers
Internationalist Striker

Keep Lyttelton Public - Port Unions
Joint Media Release from Port Unions

NZ Industrial Relations Experiment Provides Warnings for Australia
Lyndy McIntyre, workers.labor.net.au

Low Wages Cited as Real Bogey
Simon Collins, New Zealand Herald

ANZ National Campaign
Appeal from Finsec Union

Richer companies, poorer workers
Katrin Bennhold, International Herald Tribune

Who is Everyone?
Eric Lee, LabourStart

Canadian Independence at Risk from NAFTA
letter from Canadian Labour Congress President Ken Georgetti
Global Unions Forum on Trade and International Labour Standards

Defending Labour's Right to Protest the War
Jack Heyman, San Francisco Chronicle

Leave our country now
Iraqi oil workers resist foreign occupation
Hassan Juma'a Awad, The Guardian

Maritime Union says labour shortage claim has been blown out of water
Maritime Union media release

Unseasonal strife in Santa's little sweatshops
Richard Spencer, Daily Telegraph

Workers Demand Union at Wal-Mart Supplier in China
Howard W. French, New York Times

Germany's New Reality: Layoffs by Automaker Confirm Labour's Diminishing Power
Peter S. Goodman and Petra Krischok, Washington Post

NZ Union Leader Refused Access to China:
Chinese commitment to FTA labour standards called into question
CTU Media Release

Forced to Work Off the Clock, Some Fight Back
Steven Greenhouse, New York Times

Maritime Union attacks free trade deals as anti-worker
MUNZ Media release

Security checks or "the sack" for 10,000 Canadian dock workers
International Transport Federation

Low wages, cruel bosses, no rights:
Migrant workers in China - Geoffrey York, Globe and Mail

Chiquita Banana Workers Need Your Support
sintrainagro.org.co/

Bush Administration Supports Immunity for Forced Labour, Rape and Other Torture
Legal Brief Argues Unocal Should Not Be Liable for Its Complicity in Myanmar (Burma) Abuses
Media Release, Earthrights International

Colombia's oil pipeline is paid for in blood and dollars.
Trade unionists are the prime target of the US-funded 18th Brigade
Isabel Hilton, The Guardian (UK)

The 'Global Economy' Threat Moves to France
Carl Bloice

To shoot a trade unionist is cheaper than to negotiate
Maria Engqvist, ANNCOL

Nation's largest union calls for end to U.S. Occupation of Iraq and withdrawal of U.S.
Media release from US Labor Against the War

Hunger Doesn't Wait
reaction to NZ Govt Budget from Unite! union
 
Email your MP - support the Maritime Union's campaign for cabotage

announcement from the Maritime Union of NZ

 
Letter from the CTU
re NZ Government review of employment law
 
Fishing company applies to employ 60 foreigners
NZPA (NZ Herald)
 
National Campaign for Cabotage Launched

Media release from Maritime Union of NZ

 
NZ Prime Minister Misleads Unions: Clothing Workers
Media Release on China/NZ FTA from CLAW

 

The human cost of the computer age

John Authers and Alison Maitland Financial Times

 

The Occupation's War on Iraqi Workers

- David Bacon

 

Thailand: 295 Workers Strike Nasawat Apparel Factory

Action Network for Migrants and Yaung Chi Oo Workers Association

 

Urgent Appeal from the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions

Eric Lee, Labourstart

 

Shipping Industry Sinks While NZ Government Looks The Other Way

Maritime Union of NZ Media release

Murderous Collusion of Bosses & Government: Unions in Colombia Resist State Terror

Berta Joubert-Ceci, Workers World

 

Vacation Starvation

Joe Robinson, AlterNet

 

Tariff Cuts Shameful Says Union

Clothing & Allied Workers Union media release

 

Panic among unions as British call-centre jobs go to India

Agence France Presse

 

Unionbusting in Germany

Victor Grossman, Berlin

International Appeal

Campaign for Labour Rights in Iraq

 

Maritime Union hits streets in support of New Zealand coastal shipping

Maritime Union of New Zealand Media release

 

A New Solidarity Front in Iraq

by Tim Shorrock

 

Fonterra and world agriculture: it's not just about trade

Bill Rosenberg, speech to New Zealand Dairyworkers Union

 

SA Union Takes on Head Office

Appeal from South Africa's CEPPWAWU Wits Region

 

Argentina's Luddite Rulers

Naomi Klein, Globe and Mail

 

Argentina: Workers Evicted From Factory

Latin America Solidarity Committee Aotearoa New Zealand

 

US Workers' Pay, Protections Cut

 

Irish Trade Unionists Call for War Boycott

Alan McSimon

 

Wharfies Sue 'Phoenix' Company and Win

Lesley Springall, Independent (NZ)

 

Union Leader Re-instated at GINA (Sri Lanka)

 

Sri Lanka – Labour Reform Hurts Workers

 

Historic Merger of 2 Sri Lankan Unions

Letter

 

Global Trade Union Mobilization May 1

 

British Unions May Block War Supplies

Alfred Lee, Straits Times

 

Trade Union Strategy Against a Corporate Europe

Asbjørn Wahl, Campaign for the Welfare State, Norway

 

NZ Unions Oppose Iraq War - Or Do They ...?

NZCTU Media Release, with Analysis and Text

 

United Airlines Crash – Was it Sabotage?

Editorial, Workers World

 

Each Year is Worse for Colombian Workers

Sara Cifuentes Ortiz, Voz

 

Workers Tell of Walmart’s Darker Side

 

El Salvador Health Workers Union Shows Strength

Govt. reaction feared - Cispes Action Alert

 

Canadian Workers Oppose US Attack on Iraq

 

Motion to UK TUC Opposing GATS

 

Building Democratic Unions

“Our Voice” (Aotearoa/NZ)

 

SA Communists Affirm Support for Neo-Liberal ANC

 

New Labour Code for World’s Newest Country

ILO in East Timor

 

Philippine Labour Group Warns of US Aggression

 

Bush Threatens Dockers Right to Strike

 

Strikers as Terrorists?

 

Maquila

Saul Landau’s new film

 

Attack of the Killer Bananas

Things you ought to know about the yellow fruit

 

MFAT-CTU ‘Consultation’ on GATS

 

China Threat Keeps Thai Wages Low

 

UK Unions Hold Their Heads Up Again

The ‘3rd Way’ is Finished - by Robert Taylor, New Statesman

 

May Day Greetings

From Asia Pacific Workers Solidarity Links

 

Appeal to Unionists

From Mahatir’s Concentration Camp - Malaysia

 

Workers Memorial Day – April 28

 

Emergency!

Police prepare to strike at Argentine workers – solidarity needed now

 

Rome March Against Labour Laws

 

Labor misses Opportunity at WEF

 

Nike, Adidas Factory Workers Still Overworked, Underpaid

 

NZ Trade Unionist Slams Employer Comments on Holidays Bill

 

US Poor to March on Winter Olympics

 

Aust Unions Demand Parity

For Timorese working in the Timor Gap Oilfields

 

Working in China

 

Hong Kong Cleaners Dispute

 

Open Letter From Bluff re Carter Holt dispute