India Toyota 'good conduct' offer to locked-out wildcats
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 21 2006 10:43
Toyota said it will end a 12-day lockout at its plant in Bangalore, India if employees sign a 'good conduct' pledge.
Strike wave sweeps India
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 20 2006 10:44
India has seen a wave of strikes this month
Vietnam: Wildcat strikes win pay hike
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 18 2006 11:22
More than a dozen strikes by more than 40,000 workers in Ho Chi Minh City's export processing zones have forced the Vietnamese government to raise the country's minimum wage by nearly 40 percent.
Textile workers strike in Long Eaton
Submitted by Steven. on Jan 14 2006 11:28
The TGWU has warned that textile workers could stage further action after they walked out of work yesterday in a strike over pay.
1936-1938: The Workers of the Paris Region During the Popular Front - Michael Seidman
Submitted by libcom on Jan 12 2006 14:45
1917: Recollections of a Bisbee Deportee: Still on strike!
Submitted by libcom on Jan 5 2006 10:34
An account by a striking miner and Wobbly (Industrial Workers of the World member) who was deported with 1,185 other strikers to New Mexico by armed vigilantes hired by copper bosses to defeat the strike.
Direct action at an electronics factory
A brief account of workers' co-operation and workload-reduction at an electronic transformer factory by Jay, a coil winder .
Argentine workers take control of industry
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 28 2005 15:40
The workers of the San Justo glassworks in Buenos Aires never thought about owning their company, until it went bankrupt four years ago.
Australia - 200 days on picket line for Boeing workers
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 19 2005 10:01
Boeing maintenance engineers in Williamtown, Newcastle marked their 200th day on the picket line on the 17th December.
Marconi pensions - Adrift in the markets
Submitted by Freedom on Nov 27 2005 10:15
In the first deal of its kind, a major pension scheme has been spun off from its parent company to make the business more attractive to investors.
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