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.
Egypt: Garment workers' sit-in reaches 26th day Report from Egyptian blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy on a sit in of over 150, mostly female garment workers at the Mansoura-España Garments Company.
Kafr el-Dawwar workers are in the same trench as Ghazl el-Mahalla A very significant statement of solidarity with the Ghazl el-Mahalla workers from the workers at…
Egypt: Mahalla crackdown day two An update from an Egypt-based libcom poster on the state repression of the workers movements in Mahalla on the Nile Delta.
Egypt: New crackdown on Mahalla workers A report posted from a libcom user in Egypt concerning repression following the recent wave of strikes there.
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.
Egypt: Strikes continue despite clampdown Workers centres have been shut down by police as the Egyptian government tries to quell the wildcat strikes sweeping the country.
Egyptian textile workers confront the new economic order An analysis of the recent strike-wave in Egypt which involved tens of thousands of textile workers…
Vietnam: More wildcat strikes hit manufacturing After 3,000 furniture workers struck on Monday, thousands more walked out over low wages.
India: Strike of 10,000 tailors enters seventh day The indefinite strike of thousands of garment workers in Tirupur for a wage increase continues this week.
Egypt's wildcat strike wave continues unabated As reported previously on libcom, tens of thousands of workers in Egypt continue to defy their unions and the government in the nation's state…
Bangladesh: Fifty garment workers beaten by hired thugs Dozens of workers at a clothing factory were injured on Wednesday when over 200 outsiders, allegedly…