Stories about Labor from December, 2007
South Korea: Migrant Worker Trade Union Demonstration
CINA blogs some pictures about the last Sunday demonstration organized by Migrant Worker Trade Union against the government crack down.
Ukraine: Coal Miners’ Video
Ukrainiana posts and translates “a video of real people who tell us how the smell of profits sucks the safety out of the Ukrainian mining industry.”
Protest From Egypts Civil Servants
Members of the Real Estate Tax Authority and thousands of Egypts tax collectors are gathered in Cairo this week to protest their wages and to demand a transfer of their positions to the Finance Ministry. Baheyya has more As with the second Mahalla strike in Ramadan, hundreds of women civil...
Tajikistan: Labor migrants as a political tool
Vadim reports that Tajik labor migrants have become a serious leverage in the hands of Russia against Tajik government, while the “presence of Tajik migrant workers in Russia remains a sensitive issue for both sides”.
Korea: Foreigners and Crime
Since the number of foreign workers has been increasing fast, treatment of them and worries that they take locals’ jobs have been ongoing issues in Korean society. On the 23 rd of November, a Bangladesh worker was arrested for sexual harassment of a primary school student. A presidential candidate promised...
China: Report from Hong Kong on sweatshop
After long effort, the Hong Kong-based student organization SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior大学师生监察无良企业行动) published a report on Dell Computer and its suppliers’ misconducts related to labor rights in mainland China. Here is a collection of voices and replies from domestic websites.
South Korea: Reckless Crackdown on Migrant Worker Union
Jamie has written a detailed report with background on the recent crackdown of Migrant Worker Union in South Korea.
Jordan: Late Salary
Jordanian Tololy‘s salary is late. Here‘s what she has to say about that.
China: Rural Migrant Worker Sex Hotel
A rural migrant worker sex hotel was openned in Zhuhai on 28 of November to give space to marry couples for enjoying their sex life. Netease has a BBS post[zh] showing support to the initiative. In the post's poll, more than 80% agrees that China should have more sex hotel.
