Vietnam
Content about workers' struggles, war and events in Vietnam.
Korean workers riot in Vietnam, 1967
The riot by Korean workers at Vinnell Corporation, Cam Ranh Bay during the Vietnam War.
MACV (Military Assistance Command Vietnam, the U.S. command for all its military forces in Vietnam – ed.) had also been directed to start a civilianization program on September 15, 1967. South Vietnamese workers would be substituted for U.S. military support personnel in certain logistical units. There were many advantages. American manpower could be trimmed as technical expertise was shared.
Vietnam: Further wildcats in the garment sector
Over 800 workers at a Taiwanese-owned garment company in Ho Chi Minh City struck work Wednesday demanding lower workload and social welfare coverage.
Thanh Nien Daily reported:
The workers at Top Royal Flash Ltd. said they had been forced to work overtime four or five days a week for the past four months. Though the company had deducted part of their salaries to pay social insurance for half a year, it did not send the amount to the authorities, according to the workers.
1,000 Vietnamese shrimp processing workers on strike
Nearly 1,000 workers have gone on strike to protest a wage cut at a Singaporean shrimp processing factory in Vietnam.
According to wire agency AFP, the workers at Amanda Foods are protesting against the company's decision to cut salaries to S$37.50 (600,000 dong) a month. Manual labourers in Vietnam typically earn around S$50 a month.
The state and counter-revolution - Negation
A 1972 article by Negation, in the United States debunking the myths of Leninism and the New Left in particular.
They confront the fact that state-capitalism, the state-management of production and society, the rule over society by the class of the state, the bureaucracy, is still almost universally confused with "communism" as Marx defined it, due in part to the conspiracy of silence and distortion which unites the capitalists of both "East" and "West".
Vietnam: Wildcat strike at garment factory
Some 350 workers at a Taiwanese-owned garment company in central Vietnam struck work Monday demanding higher wages and lower workload.
Thanhniennews.com reported that the workers of Sportteam Corporation said they were paid VND490,000 (US$30) monthly but had to work up to 14 hours daily. They also had to work overtime and night shifts regularly without extra pay.
Vietnam regulates a minimum wage of VND710,000 ($44) for foreign invested sector.
Vietnemese minimum wage set to rise
Instead of being increased by 10% as of October 1 as scheduled, the monthly minimum wage is expected to increase by 20% as of early 2008.
Talking to the press on the sideline of a conference on vocational training and job creation held in Hanoi on May 11, Minister of Labour Nguyen Thi Hang said that the ministry was about to submit to the government a minimum wage reform scheme for 2008-2012.
Vietnam: Farm-workers' union members remain in jail
Five organisers from the independent United Workers-Farmers Organization, were arrested and remain in prison.
In Vietnam independent unions are illegal, Nguyen Tan Hoanh, Tran Thi Le Hang, Doan Huy Chuong and his father Doan Van Dien were arrested in November last year, a month after the organisation was launched. Tran Quoc Hien was arrested in January this year after his election as a spokesman for the UWFO.
Vietnam: 700 garment workers wildcat
Over 700 workers staged a wildcat strike Wednesday at a Taiwanese-owned garment company in central Vietnam demanding better payments and welfare.
The Thanh Nien Daily reports that at a mediation meeting later the workers of Quinmax International Company, Thua Thien-Hue province, were not impressed by Taiwanese director Xu Yun Ping’s promise to meet their demands in two weeks.
Vietnam: More wildcat strikes hit manufacturing
After 3,000 furniture workers struck on Monday, thousands more walked out over low wages.
Thanhniennews.com reported that over 4,000 workers walked out over low pay Monday at four foreign companies in the southern Vietnamese province of Dong Nai and as of yesterday were continuing to strike work at three of the firms.
Vietnam: 3,000 factory workers wildcat
3,000 workers at a furniture factory in southern Vietnam have downed tools and walked out over low pay, state media and company officials report.
According to the company and state media, the dispute centres on the levelling out of pay between new and experienced workers at the Taiwanese-owned factory. Nguyen Thi Mai, a company human resources official, said the workers didn't inform the trade union or the company of ther intentions or their demands before starting their strike Friday.
