India Toyota 'good conduct' offer to locked-out wildcats Toyota said it will end a 12-day lockout at its plant in Bangalore, India if employees sign a 'good conduct' pledge.
Vietnam: Wildcat strikes win pay hike 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 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 A study of the mass strike and militant working class movement which erupted during the period of…
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 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 Boeing maintenance engineers in Williamtown, Newcastle marked their 200th day on the picket line on the 17th December.
Marconi pensions - Adrift in the markets 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.
Ford times time on the loo This article from the Detroit news shows petty measures introduced by Ford managers recently to raise productivity. The memo about toilet time is included below.
