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  • @recriweb
    Recriweb @recriweb 14/02/2023

    Last Workers’ Fight workplace bulletin editorial

    – Zelensky’s welcome “aid” to Sunak
    ▻https://www.union-communiste.org/fr/workers-fight-workplace-bulletin-editorials/zelenskys-welcome-aid-to-sunak-natural-disasters-made#c2

    – South-east #Turkey and north-west #Syria. Natural disasters made worse by this unnatural system
    ▻https://www.union-communiste.org/fr/workers-fight-workplace-bulletin-editorials/zelenskys-welcome-aid-to-sunak-natural-disasters-made#c3

    #WorkersFight #United_Kingdom #editorial #Zelensky #earthquakes #imperialism #Shell #Centrica #Ukraine #Russia #UCI (#Union_Communiste_Internationaliste)

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  • @recriweb
    Recriweb @recriweb 11/02/2023

    The Bosses Are the Workers’ Enemies, Not China — #The_Spark 1170 ▻https://the-spark.net/np_1170101.html #editorial

    The first week of February, a Chinese “spy” balloon floated over the United States. It was the lead story on every TV news program, in spite of the fact that the military said clearly, and early, that it posed no threat. After milking it for every drop of propaganda against China they could, they shot it down.

    Whatever this balloon is or isn’t, undoubtedly, the Chinese government does spy on the United States—just as the U.S. spies on China. But to imagine that China is somehow threatening the U.S. is to turn reality on its head.

    Look at a map. The U.S. has long had military bases or close military alliances with Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Taiwan. In the last few months, it signed new deals to increase its military presence in the Philippines. The U.S. is making closer military ties with India. The U.S. has a massive fleet of aircraft carriers with all their support ships stationed close to Chinese waters at all times.

    The U.S. has China militarily encircled, and it has been drawing that circle tighter.

    On the other hand, there is not one Chinese military base in Latin America, or Canada, or the Caribbean. Rather, the U.S. complains that China is trying to extend its control into the South China Sea. You don’t need a map to know that sea is right next to China, not the U.S.!

    The rulers of China and the U.S. have many interests in common. For decades now, U.S. corporations have made huge amounts of money, investing in China to exploit Chinese workers. This investment profited the Chinese ruling class as well.

    But the Chinese state came out of a nationalist revolution that gave it the means to act more independently of U.S. domination than most underdeveloped countries. And while the ruling classes of the U.S. and China share in the profits extracted from Chinese workers, they fight over how big a share each one gets.

    So even as the two economies are deeply intertwined, their ruling classes have become rivals in many parts of the world. More recently, China has begun investing abroad to extract profits from other countries, just like U.S. companies have done for a century—though China does so on a much, much smaller scale.

    This remains a deeply unequal rivalry. The U.S. has budgeted $858 billion dollars for its military in 2023, not counting military support for Ukraine or the cost of veterans’ benefits. In 2022, China spent about $230 billion on its military.

    But in reality, the U.S. advantage is much bigger. For all its recent growth, China remains an underdeveloped country. One measure of this: with more than four times as many people, the Chinese #economy is still officially smaller than the U.S. economy.

    The U.S. also has at its disposal the militaries of most of the rest of the world—after all, the U.S. largely built those militaries after World War II!The U.S. has 750 overseas bases. China has one.

    On top of that, China has only recently ramped up its military spending, while the U.S. has been spending so much for so long that it has an enormous reserve of weapons, bases, and experience. This gives the U.S. a massive advantage not just in a war with China, but in the ability to maintain control over huge parts of the globe.

    Nonetheless, in some places, including Indonesia and many countries in Africa, China is able to give another option to governments looking for outside investment, presenting itself as an alternative to the U.S. or Europe. The U.S. ruling class thus has an interest in checking the growth of China’s power, so it can continue to wring profits out of every corner of the globe.

    The latest spy balloon incident may be a bit of a joke. But it’s part of a campaign to convince workers in this country that “the Chinese” are our enemies, to convince us to accept to live even worse in order to “contain” China—or maybe even fight an open war.

    The working class has no interest in any of this.

    That $858 billion spent on the U.S. military is taken from our pockets, and away from the services we need. It is more than double the federal government’s combined budgets for the departments of Agriculture, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Transportation!

    And if a war with China does come, it won’t be the wealthy who fight it—it will be workers. We’ve seen the costs of war in this country, borne by workers in body and mind. By one count, more than 125,000 veterans have died by suicide since just since 2001. And a shooting war with China would be incomparably destructive, posing the threat of nuclear annihilation for humanity.

    But beyond that: we are the same class as the workers in China. Many of the goods workers make in this country are partially worked up in China. Every factory, warehouse, hospital, and school in this country uses equipment and products made by workers in China—and they use equipment produced here.

    And we have the same enemies as the workers in China—the bosses who exploit us all. Does Ford care more about its workers here than those it exploits in China? No—it cares about just one thing, profit. Walmart pays as low as it can to its Chinese contractors—and also, as low as it can to its U.S. workers.

    #Workers in the U.S. have no interest in the buildup toward war, whether against #China, or #Russia, or whatever country the U.S. will threaten next. Our enemies are right here: the ones who drive down our wages every day, take the money needed for our children, for the services we need—and pull us into one war after another so they can continue to dominate the world.

    #capitalism #USA

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  • @union_communiste_internationaliste
    Union Communiste Internationaliste @union_communiste_internationaliste 21/01/2023
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    “All out” together, on 1 February! & Teaching Sunak and his government a lesson! | #Workers_Fight workplace #bulletin #editorial
    ▻https://www.union-communiste.org/fr/workers-fight-workplace-bulletin-editorials/all-out-together-on-1-february-teaching-sunak-and-his
    #United_Kingdom

    “All out” together, on 1 February!

    The government and their ranting fellow “class warriors” in the media are at it again, spitting their fury against strikers.

    These hypocrites claim that pupils are in danger of being deprived of education because of the threatened strikes; or that patients will die because of a few 1-day strikes by nurses or ambulance workers. They just can’t help themselves: they’re unable to disguise their deep class hatred for workers and poor people. Or their blind ignorance of the world the rest of us live in.

    Neither do they take any responsibility for the situation they’ve created! The crisis in the NHS is not a sudden collapse. It’s been a slowly evolving catastrophe, totally predictable and one which health workers have been warning of for many, many, years. The #crisis in schools has the exact same history!

    But now, with new data from the Office for National Statistics, the idea that wages have “risen” and that inflation is falling (despite the persistent huge gap) is going to be held up as yet another reason to refuse to yield to the demands of striking #workers.

    In passing, it’s worth noting that yes, private sector wages, in some cases, rose. Certain private bosses, for instance in the car industry (BMW Oxford, Ford, Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan, etc...) had already agreed to give “#inflation plus” pay rises for the 2nd year of 2-year pay-deals, so they stuck to their agreements and paid up (even up to 16%!), fearful that their workforces might #strike! Unlike the government and its groupies, they know how to avoid industrial action and anyway, these pay rises were already factored-in to their balance sheets.

    Today, in the case of the public sector, it is the whole of the country’s “public” who are de facto, the workers’ paymasters. Yes, otherwise known as “taxpayers”! And if the public had a say, it would surely offer all the key workers currently trying to fight for their livelihoods, the inflation-proof pay rises they need!

    What’s more it would demand that the #government stop the rot it’s causing to these services immediately - and, for example, reverse the planned cuts in the railways. As one rail worker put it, “they could pay me another 50% - I don’t care, but I’m on strike to fight the closure of ticket offices, the refusal to put guards back on trains and the unsafe cuts in conditions for every category of maintenance worker!”

    The public, if it was in charge, would find a solution to the 165,000+133,000 vacancies in the #NHS and #social_care, by offering a generous “welcome-back” to all those who left the country due to Brexit - an estimated 330,000 - as well as a welcome to the migrant workers and refugees who risk their lives in “small boats” to reach these currently unwelcoming shores!

    In fact two things are needed to solve the public sector crisis: sure, an overturning of this government, that should go without saying. But what’s also needed is for the current fight for livelihoods to be turned into the “class war” which the bosses and politicians, unlike the union leaders, already recognise it is...

    If that’s to happen, strikers will have to start taking their own initiative and above all, bring all sections and unions to fight together as one force!

    Teaching #Sunak and his government a lesson!

    In the end, teachers voted overwhelmingly - by 90% - to strike, despite the doubts of their own union officials! And turnout, at 53%, easily beat the legal threshold, despite ballot papers getting lost due to the postal strike!

    The good news is that the first strike day is called for 1 February, the same day that 100,000 civil service workers - and now also train drivers - will be on strike. And this is the same day too, that the TUC has called a “day of action” against the government’s latest anti-strike law. Maybe the TUC has finally found its teeth...

    However the current anti-strike laws, which set legal thresholds, have prevented the most low-paid of all teaching staff, the teachers’ assistants, from joining the strike. These TAs make up as much as 28% of school workforce today and are used and abused as (very much cheaper) substitutes for teachers. Their conditions are so bad that at the beginning of the school year there were 40,000 TA vacancies!

    In fact the #teachers themselves aren’t only fighting over wages - although the 5% offer comes on the back of falling pay; in real terms they’ve lost 23% (by RPI) since 2010. Today schools are expected to find this 5% “pay rise” from their existing budgets. This means that to pay teachers, schools have to take money from elsewhere, by cutting jobs, cutting building maintenance, and cutting equipment expenditure. Already they’ve been cutting the courses they offer to pupils. They received no increase in funding between 2015 and 2020, and since then only 5% - far behind inflation. Already 1 in 5 school buildings are in urgent need of repair, with the risk of collapse rated “critical”!

    Sunak, who has cancelled his deluxe trip to Davos this year, must definitely feel a little rattled at this point of the strike wave: the polls show that 51% of the public support the teachers’ strikes, but only 21% support his government.

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  • @pguilli
    pguilli @pguilli 11/10/2022

    Iran Protests: Oil Workers Strike and Say Khamenei is “Done”
    ▻https://iranwire.com/en/politics/108472-iran-protests-oil-workers-strike-and-say-khamenei-is-done

    https://static.prod.iranwire.com/_versions_jpeg/articleslide/Work_vGzgbox_0344750738_YkcZ__v1024x512__box_0%2C0%2C750%2C394.jpeg

    “We will stop working and join the people if you continue killing and arresting people in their protest against compulsory hijab,” the council said in a statement.

    “We, the workers of the oil projects, in unison with people in Iran, once again declare our anger and hatred towards the murder of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police. We support the people’s fight against organized crimes against women, and growing poverty,” it added.

    #Iran #petrol #hijab #strike #workers #ecology

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  • @tony_rublon
    CEPED-MIGRINTER-IC MIGRATIONS-Moyen-Orient @tony_rublon 3/04/2020

    Qatar: Protect Migrant Workers During Pandemic-Human Rights Watch

    While acknowledging the positive steps taken to protect migrant workers infected and at-risk of infection by COVID-19, the coalition urged the authorities to supplement these with further actions that protect public health and are consistent with fundamental human rights, including the principle of non-discrimination

    #Covid-19#HRW#Qatar#Workers#Health#Migrants#Migration

    ▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/02/qatar-protect-migrant-workers-during-pandemic

    CEPED-MIGRINTER-IC MIGRATIONS-Moyen-Orient @tony_rublon
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  • @fbahoken
    fbahoken @fbahoken CC BY-NC-SA 28/05/2019
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    @cdb_77
    @sinehebdo
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    [Flowmap] How Europe moves
    Cartographie des flux européens de mobilités domicile-travail (2018)

    Mise en ligne d’une jolie carte animée représentant la mobilité professionnelle des actifs résident en Europe. Les données sont issues du Rapport annuel (2018) sur la mobilité de la main-d’œuvre intracommunautaire évoquent plus d’un million de navetteurs.

    La carte réalisée par Roxanna Torre (@RoxNL) Media Designer spécialisée dans la dataviz interactive souhaite montrer « Comment les citoyens européens utilisent aujourd’hui la possibilité de se déplacer et de travailler dans d’autres pays européens » qui leur est possible depuis la libre-circulation.

    Si l’Allemagne et le Royaume-Uni apparaissent comme les plus attractifs, en nombre de travailleurs, c’est plutôt le Luxembourg (45%), la Suisse (19%), de l’Irlande (12%) et Chypre (11%) qui accueillent le plus. Ces actifs ne s’installent pas pour autant dans leur pays de travail, vu les taux de retour élevés de certains pays, 69% pour la Roumaine par exemple.

    La représentation proposée est animée par un effet de clignotement porté sur la figuration du déplacement. Elle est également interactive concernant l’effet de ces flux sur les lieux, des informations complémentaires sur les flux entrants et sortants apparaissent au clic sur les pays

    ▻https://pic.infini.fr/VBSclDJX/dF1We7vr.PNG

    Les données : 2018 Annual Report on Intra-EU Labour Mobility ▻https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=738&langId=en&pubId=8174&furtherPubs=yes

    En savoir plus : ▻https://www.torre.nl/EUmoves

    ht @lecartographe (Alexandre Nicolas)

    #flowmap #cartedeflux #Europe #navettes #domicile-travail #workers #animation #gflowiz

    fbahoken @fbahoken CC BY-NC-SA
    • @cdb_77
      CDB_77 @cdb_77 14/06/2019
      @sinehebdo @reka

      #cartographie #visualisation #EU #UE #migrations_intra-européennes #statistiques #chiffres #travail

      Le point jaune sur l’ Italie m’étonne beaucoup vu la quantité d’Italiens qui émigrent :
      ►https://seenthis.net/messages/762801

      Et, évidemment car il s’agit d’Européens, on ne parle pas de #migrations, mais de #mobilité et plus précisément de #mobilité_professionnelle... Et on parle de #navetteurs, alors que, si j’ai bien compris, il s’agit pourtant bien de migrants et non pas de mouvements de frontaliers (personnes qui résident dans un pays et travaillent dans un autre en rentrant chez eux tous les jours ou toutes les semaines)...

      #vocabulaire #terminologie #mots
      ping @sinehebdo @reka

      CDB_77 @cdb_77
    • @sinehebdo
      Dror@sinehebdo @sinehebdo 14/06/2019

      Je ne comprends pas d’où vient le terme de navetteur ?

      La discussion sur le vocabulaire pour décrire #migrants et #réfugiés est là :
      ►http://seenthis.net/messages/414225

      Dror@sinehebdo @sinehebdo
    • @cdb_77
      CDB_77 @cdb_77 15/06/2019
      @sinehebdo @fbahoken

      En fait, @sinehebdo, c’est peut-être @fbahoken qui a utilisé le mot #navetteur... car elle a fait un commentaire de la carte...

      CDB_77 @cdb_77
    • @sinehebdo
      Dror@sinehebdo @sinehebdo 15/06/2019

      ▻https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/navetteur

      Dror@sinehebdo @sinehebdo
    • @fbahoken
      fbahoken @fbahoken CC BY-NC-SA 8/10/2019
      @cdb_77

      J’ai effectivement utilisé ce terme « navetteur » dans ma recension - car il s’agit de mon texte, @cdb_77 a raison -, car il correspond au type d’individu statistique dont il est question ici.

      Le navetteur se définit (en deux lignes) comme l’actif de 15 ans et plus qui exerce un emploi dans une autre commune que celle de sa résidence.

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  • @cdb_77
    CDB_77 @cdb_77 2/05/2018
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    @reka
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    @_kg_

    Migrant women workers drawings on how they feel at work #WorkersDay #workersday2018 #WorkersRights #WomenAtWork

    https://i.imgur.com/KxQqrQ2.jpg

    ▻https://twitter.com/lawrsuk/status/991352955499614209

    #travail_domestique #femmes #dessins #migrations
    ping @_kg_

    CDB_77 @cdb_77
    • @reka
      Phil Reka docs & archives @reka CC BY-NC-SA 2/05/2018

      #cartographie_sensible

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  • @observatoiremultinat
    ObservatoireMultinationales @observatoiremultinat CC BY-ND 7/03/2016

    Sharan Burrow: « If a company refuses to have a plan for decarbonisation and preserving jobs, ultimately they are targets for divestment. »
    ▻http://multinationales.org/Sharan-Burrow-If-a-company-refuses-to-have-a-plan-for-decarbonisati

    With the climate crisis, the rise of multinational corporations and global geopolitical shifts, the international union movement confronted with fundamentally new issues. The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), which represents more than 300 unions in 162 countries and territories, is first in line to develop a response to these challenges. Interview with Sharan Burrow, ITUC Secretary-General since 2010. ITUC has been actively involved in the international climate debate for (...)

    #Investigations

    / A la une, #Fossil_fuels, #Workers'_Rights_and_Freedom_of_Association, #work_conditions, #workers'_rights, #decent_work, #climate_change, #corporate_legal_responsibility, #corporate_social_responsibility, #human_rights, supply (...)

    #supply_chain
    “▻http://www.ituc-csi.org/new-ituc-report-exposes-hidden”

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  • @observatoiremultinat
    ObservatoireMultinationales @observatoiremultinat CC BY-ND 2/02/2015

    Opposition mounts towards #shale_gas in Algeria
    ▻http://multinationales.org/Opposition-mounts-towards-shale

    The Algerian Sahara has been in the grip of mobilisations against shale gas operations since 1 January 2015, when some 1500 people took to the streets of In Salah, 35 kilometres from the site where #Total and Algerian state-owned company #Sonatrach are conducting the country’s first shale drilling in the Ahnet Basin. This article was originally published in French mid-January 2015. Despite the Algerian government’s annoucement that it will temporarily suspend fracking plans, protests continue. (...)

    #News

    / #Fossil_fuels, Total, Sonatrach, #Extractive_Industries, #Energy, shale gas, #water, #local_communities, #extractive_industries, #environmental_impact, workers’ (...)

    #workers'_protest
    « ▻http://www.equaltimes.org/opposition-mounts-to-shale-gas-in »
    « ►http://www.elwatan.com »
    « ▻http://www.eia.gov/countries/country-data.cfm?fips=ag »
    « ►http://www.algeria-watch.org/pdf/pdf_fr/gdS-algerie.pdf »
    « ►http://www.algeria-watch.org/fr/article/eco/gaz_schiste/craintes_agriculteurs.htm »

    • #Sonatrach
    • #Algeria
    • #shale gas
    • #Sahara
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  • @africasacountry
    Africa’s a Country [RSS] @africasacountry 8/01/2015

    Making Sure We Give Credit Where It’s Due in the #Ebola Outbreak
    ▻http://africasacountry.com/making-sure-we-give-credit-where-its-due-in-the-ebola-outbreak

    As a brutal year comes to an end in the West African countries that are fighting Ebola, it’s important to take a moment to appreciate those on the frontline. Much.....

    #AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #aid #Community #health #JOURNALISM #Liberia #MEDIA #workers

    Africa’s a Country [RSS] @africasacountry
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  • @observatoiremultinat
    ObservatoireMultinationales @observatoiremultinat CC BY-ND 8/01/2015

    The Other Side of Low-Cost Air Travel
    ▻http://multinationales.org/The-Other-Side-of-Low-Cost-Air

    The two-week strike staged in September by Air #France pilots in protest against the expansion of the airline’s low-cost subsidiary, Transavia, illustrates the impact of this increasingly widespread model on labour legislation and social protection. This article was originally published, in a slightly longer version, in French. Translation via Equal Times. “If low-cost could be done with the operating rules of a traditional airline, we’d know about it! (...) You can’t go and work for Transavia (...)

    #Investigations

    / #Transport, France, #Air_France_KLM, #Easyjet, #Vueling, #Ryanair, #Corporate_Subsidies, #Tax_Heavens, #Workers'_Rights_and_Freedom_of_Association, #subsidies, #work_conditions, #workers'_rights, #offshoring, #workers'_protest, #salary, #unions, #social_security, tax (...)

    #tax_evasion
    « ▻http://www.equaltimes.org/the-other-side-of-low-cost?lang=en »
    « ▻http://www.lesechos.fr/10/09/2014/LesEchos/21768-080-ECH_alexandre-de-juniac-----nous-comptons-investir-1-milliard-d-e »
    « ►http://www.cgtairfrance.com/Doc/2014/COMPRESSOSAF22092014.pdf »
    « ►http://centreforaviation.com/analysis/european-airlines-labour-productivity-oxymoron-for-some-vueling-a »
    « ►http://www.senat.fr/notice-rapport/2013/r13-450-notice.html »
    « ▻http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-863_en.htm »

    • #Transavia
    • #airline
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  • @al-akhbar
    Al-Akhbar English [RSS] @al-akhbar CC BY-NC-ND 15/11/2014

    On the need for a strong and independent trade union movement
    ▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/22496

    http://english.al-akhbar.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/4cols/leading_images/12_6.jpg

    The movement of peoples throughout history has proven that economic, social, and political changes are often the result of both subjective and objective factors. Most analysts agree that subjective factors determine, while objective factors qualify, the type of changes and influence them. This approach applies to the reality of the trade union movement in the Arab region. To be sure, it is difficult to understand what the Arab trade union has undergone without analyzing the economic reality and its effects on social conditions and political choices. Furthermore, it is important to diagnose the interaction of Arab #trade_unions with those choices and their implications for the developmental model in (...)

    #Arab_Federation_of_Trade_Unions #Arab_labor_movement #Articles #International_Federation_of_Arab_Trade_Unions #labor_movement #Workers #Economy

    Al-Akhbar English [RSS] @al-akhbar CC BY-NC-ND
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  • @al-akhbar
    Al-Akhbar English [RSS] @al-akhbar CC BY-NC-ND 18/07/2014

    #Syrian worker killed on #Lebanon construction site
    ▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syrian-worker-killed-lebanon-construction-site

    A Syrian worker was killed after a wall collapsed at a construction site in a Lebanese ski area, state media reported Friday. Lebanon’s National News Agency said three other Syrian #Workers were seriously injured in the accident which occurred late Thursday, and transferred to a local hospital. The accident took place in the town of Kfardebian, one of Lebanon’s most frequented destinations for skiers. The death comes one month after a 17-year-old Syrian was killed when the roof of a house he was helping restore collapsed in the town of Qortaba. read more

    #construction_sites #Labor

    • #Lebanon
    • #construction site
    • #state media
    • #Lebanon’s National News Agency
    Al-Akhbar English [RSS] @al-akhbar CC BY-NC-ND
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  • @observatoiremultinat
    ObservatoireMultinationales @observatoiremultinat CC BY-ND 4/07/2014

    Claiming victory against #Unilever, ’Fralibs’ will take over their factory in Gémenos
    ▻http://multinationales.org/Claiming-victory-against-Unilever

    “This is a massive trade-union victory”, say the delighted ’Fralib’ workers. After occupying their tea-producing factory for three and a half years in Gémenos, Southern #France, the ’Fralibs’, as they are called after the name of their former company, finally came to an agreement with Unilever on the 25th May, 2014. This article was originally published in French►http://multinationales.org/Reprise-de-l-usine-de-Gemenos. Translation: Rebecca Ballard. “This agreement means we can start looking into (...)

    #News

    / #Economic_Democracy, Unilever, France, Food & Agribusiness, #internal_democracy_within_firms, #social_economy, #employment, #workers'_protest, #corporate_social_responsibility, Confédération générale du travail (...)

    #Food_&_Agribusiness #Confédération_générale_du_travail_CGT_

    • #Unilever
    • #France
    • #southern France
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  • @al-akhbar
    Al-Akhbar English [RSS] @al-akhbar CC BY-NC-ND 3/07/2014

    Iraqi soldiers beat Bangladeshi #Workers for “sympathizing” with jihadis
    ▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/iraqi-soldiers-beat-bangladeshi-workers-sympathizing-jihadis

    Hundreds of Bangladeshi construction workers have been beaten and humiliated by soldiers in #Iraq after becoming dragged into their host country’s sectarian conflict, two of their colleagues said Thursday. Some had their beards shaved off by the troops after being accused of sympathizing with Sunni insurgents while one of them was stripped naked, according to the men after they returned home. read more

    #Bangladesh #ISIS #Mosul

    • #Iraq
    • #ISIS
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    ObservatoireMultinationales @observatoiremultinat CC BY-ND 23/06/2014

    Working conditions on construction sites in #Qatar : the role of #Bouygues and #Vinci
    ▻http://multinationales.org/Working-conditions-on-construction

    After Brazil this year, it will be Qatar’s turn to host football’s greatest ritual in 2022. Giant construction projects - stadiums, metros, highways, and hotels - are already adding up. French businesses Bouygues and Vinci have won huge contracts in the country. The problem? Qatar has come under heavy fire from the International Labor Organization, international #unions, and #NGOs such as Amnesty International and #human_rights Watch because of the deplorable working conditions and other human (...)

    #Investigations

    / Qatar, #Workers'_Rights_and_Freedom_of_Association, #Occupational_Health_and_Safety, Bouygues, Vinci, #Building_and_Public_Works, #Qatari_Diar, Confédération générale du travail (CGT), #work_conditions, #workers'_rights, #occupational_health_and_safety, #decent_work, human (...)

    #Confédération_générale_du_travail_CGT_ #infrastructure #migrants #corporate_social_responsibility
    « ►http://www.amnesty.org/fr/library/asset/MDE22/011/2013/fr/aacb4f2e-a641-4c9a-ae66-ddca697f19ad/mde220112013fr.pdf »
    « ►http://publi.vinci.com/vinci/vinci-rapport-annuel-2013.pdf »
    « ►http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_239842.pdf »
    « ►http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/06/12/building-better-world-cup-0 »
    « ►http://www.bouygues.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/COMPTE-RENDU-AVEC-QUESTIONS-REPONSES-Site-internet1.pdf »
    « ►http://www.franceinfo.fr/emission/le-plus-france-info/2013-2014/qatar-un-pays-en-chantier-au-mepris-des-droits-des-ouvriers-11-25-2013-09 »
    « ►http://www.bouygues.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/cp-bouygues-construction-qatar-12.04.12-fr.pdf »
    « ►http://www.ituc-csi.org/nouveau-rapport-sur-les?lang=fr »
    « ►http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/nyregion/workers-at-nyus-abu-dhabi-site-face-harsh-conditions.html?_r=0 »

    • #Bouygues
    • #Vinci
    • #Qatar
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    Al-Akhbar English [RSS] @al-akhbar CC BY-NC-ND 29/04/2014

    Lebanese state workers, teachers march for wage hikes
    ▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-state-workers-teachers-march-wage-hikes

    ▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/4cols/leading_images/2e3tesam.jpg

    Public sector employees and school teachers protest in Beirut to demand lucrative banks and big businesses pitch in to fund the wage hike bill. (Photo: Marc Abizeid) Public sector employees and school teachers protest in Beirut to demand lucrative banks and big businesses pitch in to fund the wage hike bill. (Photo: Marc Abizeid)

    Updated 11:10 AM: Thousands of public sector employees and school teachers are marching in Beirut Tuesday to demand lucrative banks and big businesses pitch in to fund the wage hike bill in what could be one of the largest workers rallies to hit #Lebanon in years. The Union Coordination Committee (UCC) — a conglomerate of public sector associations and schools — has asked public and private (...)

    #Top_News #UCC #wage_scale #workers_rights

    • #Beirut
    • #Marc Abizeid
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    ObservatoireMultinationales @observatoiremultinat CC BY-ND 25/04/2014
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    Amazonian dams: #EDF and GDF Suez are “studying” indigenous lands with the support of the army
    ▻http://multinationales.org/Amazonian-dams-EDF-and-GDF-Suez

    After Belo Monte, the Tapajós river, one of the Amazon’s main tributaries, and its basin are the latest target for builders of #Large_Dams. The Brazilian government would like to build at least four new dams in this pristine area, of unique #biodiversity. It has enlisted help from a group of companies, including French companies EDF and GDF Suez, to carry out #environmental_impact studies. These companies have been granted the support of the army, to help them sniff out any rebellion from the (...)

    #Investigations

    / #Energy, #Brazil, EDF, #GDF-Suez, Large Dams, #State_as_shareholder, biodiversity, #local_communities, #social_impact, environmental impact, #energy, workers’ (...)

    #workers'_protest
    “►http://lab.org.uk/public-consultation-more-of-a-pr-exercise”
    “►http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/12/amazon-villagers-incensed-over-energy-plans-20131223103351496119.html”
    “►http://www.grupodeestudostapajos.com.br”
    “►http://youtu.be/9liW4bQP03w

    ”

    • #Amazon
    • #GDF Suez
    • #army
    • #Brazilian government
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    Al-Akhbar English [RSS] @al-akhbar CC BY-NC-ND 1/04/2014

    #UN: #Qatar's #Labor laws fly in the face of global rulles
    ▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/un-qatars-labor-laws-fly-face-global-rulles

    Qatar must overhaul its employment laws because they fly in the face of global rules on trade union rights, the UN labor agency said, in fresh criticism of the 2022 #World_Cup host. In an official document sent to AFP Tuesday, the International Labor Organization’s (ILO) freedom of association committee urged Qatar to remove a host of restrictions on forming unions and striking, and protecting workers against discrimination. read more

    #Human_Rights #ILO #Top_News #workers_rights

    • #Qatar
    • #International Labor Organization
    • #United Nations
    • #the 2022 World Cup
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    albertocampiphoto @albertocampiphoto CC BY-NC-SA 25/01/2014

    A selection from LensCUlture

    I Reminisce and Cry for Life by Agnieska Rayss

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    These women are veterans of the Second World War in #Belarus. They are almost 90. The #war started for them in 1941 when they were 16-18. They were born in all parts of the Soviet Union. As a result of the fall of the #Soviet_Union they are all Belarussians now. Belarussian propaganda uses them as examples of good #patriots and citizens.

    This project was inspired by Svetlana Alekseyevich’s book “War’s Unwomanly Face” (1985). All these women all different nationalities were fighting in #World_War_II for their homeland (the Soviet Union). The war was difficult for them. They were very young when the war had started (16-18) and they had to learn plenty of things that were necessary during the war. They were nurses, truck drivers, communications #workers, and they were #partisans (mostly those who lived in the country). Most of them went to the army as volunteers to defend their homeland. They had to fight and to share difficult living conditions with men soldiers.

    They experienced hard times also when the war was over. They had to rebuilt their lives in a country ruined by the war. They often did not come back to their countries of birth, they stayed in Belarus where they happened to be when the war was finished.

    They were not treated better than ordinary citizens. They were often treated as freaks or prostitutes because they were in the #army with men. Most of them wanted to marry someone and to have children – to behave as “normal women”.

    Their stories deserve to be known. This is a work in progress.

    Marginal Trades by Supranav Dash

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    Trades and professional practices have always been intertwined with the caste system in India. Each caste and its sub-sets would stereotype an individual and dictate their occupational practice.

    Since the early 1800s, people were not allowed to deviate from their fixed #professions or they would be outlawed by society. At the time, social morals reflected ignorance and strong attachment to orthodox beliefs.

    The tradition of professions and trades being passed down the line from father to son, continued for generations until recently when globalization and rapid socio-economic change resulted in the problem of enculturation and automation. At that point, many of the age-old practices faded out, while others are currently on their way to extinction. The modern Indian generation refuses to stick to their ancestral professions and trades; they have become more daring and try to switch to more lucrative business possibilities.

    The abandonment of the traditional practices also result from insufficient incomes, a desire to escape the #caste #stereotypes, the constant neglect of the privileged classes of the society these people serve, and a government that is not open to social reforms.

    Global trends are constantly changing. Therefore, in these frantic times, it’s very easy to forget our past, culture and traditions. I am not opposed to modernization, but at the same time, I want to slow things down and force one’s self to recognize and remember the beauty of these analog practices. As a photographer, I want to use my craft to pay respect to these tradesmen and bring them to light.

    Rise and Fall of Apartheid expo

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    In the culmination of a tour that has included venues across the world, Rise and Fall of #Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life comes to South Africa. The exhibition offers an unprecedented and comprehensive historical overview of the pictorial response to Apartheid.

    Apartheid transformed the modern political meaning of citizenship, inventing a wholly new society in fact and law. The result was a re-organization of civic, economic and political structures that penetrated even the most mundane aspects of social existence in #South_Africa. Institutions for housing, public amenities, transportation, education, tourism, religion and business were transformed for the sole purpose of denying and depriving #Africans, “coloreds” and Asians of their basic #civil_rights, a transformation that extended into the personal lives of every South African.

    Based on more than six years of research, the exhibition examines the aesthetic power of the documentary form — from the photo essay to #reportage, social #documentary to #photojournalism and art — in recording, analyzing, articulating and confronting the legacy of Apartheid, including its impact on everyday life in South Africa today.

    The exhibition argues that the rise of the Afrikaner National Party changed the pictorial perception of the country into a highly contested space based on the ideals of equality, democracy and civil rights. Photography was almost instantaneously alert to Apartheid, changing its own visual language from a purely anthropological tool into a social instrument. Because of this, no one else photographed South Africa’s liberation struggle better, more critically and incisively, with deep pictorial complexity and penetrating insight, than South African photographers. It is the goal of this exhibition to explore and pay tribute to their exceptional achievement.

    Encompassing the entire East Wing of #Museum_Africa, Rise and Fall of Apartheid encompasses over 800 works by more than 70 photographers, artists and filmmakers. It features complex, vivid, evocative and dramatic visual productions that form part of modern South Africa’s historical record. The exhibition brings together a rich tapestry of materials that have rarely been shown together.

    #photography #lensculture

    • #Belarus
    • #South Africa
    • #Soviet Union
    • #army
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      #photojournalisme #documentaire #reportage #stéréotypes #armée #travailleurs #guerre #patriotisme #photographie #partisan #armée #Union_Soviétique #Deuxième_guerre_mondiale #Afrique_du_Sud #Biélorussie

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  • @wardamd
    Warda Mohamed @wardamd 16/01/2014
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    UAE aims to boost private sector jobs for nationals tenfold by 2021- Arab Times online

    ▻http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/202957/reftab/36/t/UAE-aims-to-boost-private-sector-jobs-for-nationals-tenfold-by-2021/Default.aspx

    The United Arab Emirates wants to increase the number of its citizens employed in the private sector tenfold by 2021, and will intervene in the labour market if necessary to reach that goal, the prime minister said on Tuesday.

    #workers #Emirates #AbuDhabi

    • #United Arab Emirates
    • #Prime Minister
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    Warda Mohamed @wardamd 16/01/2014
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    Abu Dhabi to give foreigners freehold property titles | THE DAILY STAR

    ▻http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Middle-East/2014/Jan-14/244026-abu-dhabi-to-give-foreigners-freehold-property-titles.ashx#axzz

    Foreigners can own property in Abu Dhabi on a freehold basis in designated investment zones, the emirate announced on Tuesday, seeking to attract more investors to its real estate sector.

    Residential units in the zones will be registered under Abu Dhabi’s freehold law, with property ownership deeds issued to investors, a statement from the Abu Dhabi Municipality said.

    #workers #Emirates #AbuDhabi

    • #ABU DHABI
    • #real estate sector
    • #The Daily Star
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    Al-Akhbar English [RSS] @al-akhbar CC BY-NC-ND 9/01/2014

    #Morocco trial over 14-year-old maid’s death postponed
    ▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/morocco-trial-over-14-year-old-maids-death-postponed

    The trial of a Moroccan woman whose 14-year-old housemaid died after suffering severe burns in the resort city of Agadir was postponed on Thursday until January 23 because a key witness was absent. The girl, identified only as Fatima, died in March after being hospitalized with burns to her face and hands, some of them third degree. The employer was charged with “blows and injuries unintentionally leading to death” and faces a prison term of 10-20 years if convicted. The defendant, whose name was not given, has denied the charges and also said she was unaware of the girl’s age. read more

    #domestic_workers #exploitation #maids #Top_News #workers_rights

    • #Agadir
    • #Morocco
    • #Fatima
    • #maid
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    Al-Akhbar English [RSS] @al-akhbar CC BY-NC-ND 23/12/2013

    Striking workers force #Yemen's airports to shut
    ▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/striking-workers-force-yemens-airports-shut

    Yemen shut its international airports on Monday after workers at its civil aviation authority went on strike, officials at the transport ministry and airports said. The strike was due to a dispute with the finance ministry over the independence of the civil aviation authority, an official at the transport ministry said. The finance ministry froze the authority’s funds, he said. “The strike is ongoing until our demands are met,” the official said, declining to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly to media. read more

    #Top_News #workers_strike

    • #Yemen
    • #finance ministry
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    ObservatoireMultinationales @observatoiremultinat CC BY-ND 20/12/2013
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    Working conditions in #China: #Apple doesn’t keep its promises
    ▻http://www.multinationales.org/article233.html

    This article was originally published by Basta! in French. Translation: Jean Petit. One year later, nothing has changed. Unpaid overtime, non-compliance with the most basic occupational safety rules, no possibility of setting up independent unions... In the Asian factories owned by #Foxconn, the Taiwanese Apple subcontractor, labor law doesn’t exist. After a number of Chinese workers committed suicide, the awful working conditions on iPhone and iPad assembly lines became widely publicized, (...)

    #News

    / #IT_industries, China, Apple, Foxconn, #Electronic_industries, #Corporate_Social_Responsibility_and_Ethical_Investment, #workers'_rights, #work_conditions, #decent_work, #occupational_health_and_safety, #supply_chain, corporate social (...)

    #corporate_social_responsibility
    ▻http://www.bastamag.net/Conditions-de-travail-Apple-ne
    ►http://www.lesinrocks.com/2013/08/08/actualite/foxconn-rescapee-tentative-suicide-une-employee-raconte-son-experience-f
    ▻http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/news/new-463.html
    ▻http://www.epi.org/blog/broken-promises-continuing-worker-abuses
    ▻http://www.fairlabor.org/sites/default/files/documents/reports/foxconn_investigation_report.pdf

    • #China
    • #Jean Petit
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