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More than 1,000 construction workers went on strike at a construction site in Sydney after a union delegate was stood down for speaking out on the site's safety. The workers were ordered back to work by the Fair Work Commission, which deemed the action was unlawful, and banned the union (the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union) from industrial action on this matter for the next three months. Workers must organise to fight laws that criminalise industrial action.

http://odishasuntimes.com/73798/villagers-threaten-paralyse-coal-mining-odisha-colliery-july-25/ Villagers threaten to paralyse coal mining in Odisha colliery from July 25 The aggrieved villagers of Hensmul in the Talcher coalfield area in Odisha have rejected the ‘conditional’ reinstatement offer by the Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd and decided to paralyse coal mining activity from July 25, reports said. The village head Radha Mohan Behera has […]

http://scroll.in/ How Bal Thackeray and his Shiv Sena changed Mumbai forever Sujata Anandan I met Manoj Surve (name changed) in the mid-1990s soon after the Shiv Sena–BJP government came to power and he began to frequent the Mantralaya in search of rewards for having participated in the riots of 1992-93. He had been part of […]

LAKKI MARWAT, July 24: The local municipal workers have ended their three weeks long strike and resumed duty after the government assured them of salary payment before Eidul Fitr.

Salary has not been paid to protesters for three months prompting them to suspend provision of municipal services in Lakki city.

The strike has led to water shortage, piling up of garbage and overflowing of sewers stressing out the people in the hot and humid weather and during the fasting month of Ramazan.

During a visit to the city for distribution of relief goods to the internally displaced persons lately, provincial local government minister Inayatullah Khan had told municipal workers that they would be paid salary before Eidul Fitr.

However, the workers continued with the strike and protests.

Taking note of the growing public complaints about lack of cleanliness and water shortage, deputy commissioner Zafar Ali ordered the arrest of two office-bearers of the municipal workers union, including Haji Anwar Kamal and Khursheed Alam Khan, under Section 3 of the Maintenance Public Order.However, the order was withdrawn when local notables assured the administration that municipal workers wound end strike and restore municipal services without delay.

When contacted, Haji Anwar Kamal said the union had called off the strike after the minister promised payment of salary to municipal workers before Eidul Fitr. “We’ve directed all municipal workers to resume duty forthwith. Provision of water supply and sanitation services to the people has already been resumed,” he said.

Published by Daily Dawn on July 24, 2014

By Doug Cunningham

The Farm Labor Organizing Committee is busy working North Carolina fields this summer in an effort to organize 5,000 more workers. There are an estimated 30,000 tobacco workers in North Carolina. The “Respect, Recognition, Raise” campaign is an effort to sign up thousands of new members so tobacco worker conditions can be improved. The FLOC campaign focuses not just on agriculture employers but also on RJ Reynolds tobacco company and the entire supply chain for the tobacco industry. FLOC says tobacco product manufacturers control the entire supply chain by setting standards the growers must comply with.

Following on from the acts of piracy in the Indian Ocean of the last few weeks, the Australian Government has now effectively kidnapped 153 asylum seekers from Sri Lanka and holding them hostage in an Australian navy ship. The government is refusing to disclose their exact location. Refugee activists in Australia are trying to put pressure on the government to allow these asylum seekers to land in Australia and have their claims heard

By Doug Cunningham

Wisconsin U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin says Governor Scott Walker’s health care policies have left 38,000 low-income people without health care coverage. Walker refused to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act and instead kicked nearly 63,000 people off Wisconsin’s low-income health insurance program BadgerCare. Walker promised these people would be transitioned into the health insurance marketplaces but instead 38,000 of them became un-insured.

Santa Rosa, Calif. — Over 300 people came here on July 12 from all over the San Francisco Bay Area to protest Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch’s decision not to file criminal charges against Sheriff’s Deputy Erik Gelhaus for the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Andy Lopez. Lopez was killed in Santa Rosa on Oct. […]

This report Hundreds protest cop killing of 13-year-old appeared first on Workers World.

by ukraineantifascistsolidarity

We have received the following appeal, signed by Mikhail Alexeevich Krylov, Representative of the Independent Donetsk Miners’ Trade Union. Krylov was co-chairman of the City Strike Committee in Donetsk during the big miners’ strikes in 1991 and later on in the 1990s. He is now the head of the Independent Miners Union of Donetsk, which organises over 1,000