Asia
Police seek arrest of Korean union leader
South Korean police said Monday they plan to seek a warrant to arrest the head of the union of Hyundai Motor Co., the country's No. 1 carmaker, for an alleged assault at a company event.
Arrest warrants will be sought for Park Yu-ki, the Hyundai Motor union leader, and two other union members over their alleged violence at the company's New Year ceremony on Jan. 4, police officials in this southeastern industrial city said.
On the present situation in Bangladesh - "state of emergency" declared.
The political climate in Bangladesh remains as violent and unstable as ever... but has electoral politics, for the moment, derailed workers' struggle? RM investigates.
After a year of intense nationwide class struggle in 2006, (see our previous reports here) for the last 3 months Bangladesh has been in a different kind of turmoil.
Bangladesh: Fifty garment workers beaten by hired thugs
Dozens of workers at a clothing factory were injured on Wednesday when over 200 outsiders, allegedly hired by the factory authorities, attacked the workers who were protesting against the bosses' beating of two of their leaders.
The Bangladesh Daily Star yesterday reported that the attackers, led by police informant and local hoodlum Mobarak, beat up the workers, mostly women, and also confined five workers to the office of an executive on the third floor of the seven-storey Padma Poly Cotton Knit Fabrics Ltd.
Working life, interviews and leaflets in Delhi's call centre cluster, 2006
Detailed report written after three months of work as foreign call centre worker in Delhi and collective political intervention in the area.
The text looks at the composition of foreign workers in Indian call centres and documents interviews with workers from international companies such as HP or Citibank which relocated call centre work to the industrial outskirts of Delhi.
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India: general strike in Kerala and West Bengal
A mass 24-hour walkout has brought economic life to a halt across two states in India, protesting privatisation, discriminatory labour legislation, rising prices and low wages.
Public transport has been paralysed and all flights cancelled, as well as most trains, banks and businesses are also closed. The streets are reportedly deserted of traffic while thousands of armed police have been deployed. Thousands of people also rallied in the Indian capital Dehli in support of the strike.
China: Safari park workers on strike
400 workers at a safari park in China have gone on strike over wages, job cuts and management corruption.
The park closed on Thursday when no workers showed up for work and around 100 picketed the entrance. On Friday around 70 police officers raided the park during a sit-in during which hundreds of employees began hanging protest signs around the park, however most of the workers left shortly after the police arrived.
Japan’s worker co-operative movement into the 21st century
The pace of Japan’s economy is picking up again after more than a decade of stasis. During this long period of economic stagnation, the many personnel practices favoring employees known by the rubric “lifetime employment” have been subjected to increased criticism by pro-investor, neo-liberal voices.
Indian technology industry workers get organised
A short article from business magazine, Forbes, about the recent unionisation drive within the Indian technology industry.
India’s technology industry, which has been merrily soaking up jobs from higher-cost countries, got a little shock last week when it had its first brush with organized labor.
(Another) Paradise Lost - Strikes and riots in the Export Zones in Vietnam and Bangladesh, 2006
Information and analysis on the workers' movements and strike waves which have swept factories in Asia.
Jin, Ba, 1904-2005
A short biography of anarchist, author and "grand old man of Chinese literature", according to The Guardian, Ba Jin.
Ba Jin
Aka Li Feigan, Pa Jin, born 25 November 1904 - Chengdu, Sichuan, died 17 October 2005 - China
