More than 300,000 foreign domestic workers are vital to sustaining Hong Kong society, yet their existence is almost invisible, their voices marginalised, and concerns sidelined. We spoke to FADWU about their campaigns to protect domestic workers' rights.
The striking workers, having held out for so long against employer and government attacks, need international support and labor solidarity as urgently as ever.
The year-long struggle is not only about protecting workers from layoffs, but also the rights of workers to have a union and to protest injustice. ALR spoke to two key union leaders leading the fight.
General strike in India has become almost an annual affair, and shows the astonishing mobilising power of trade unions, yet their political power to win progressive labour reforms are in decline.
Working conditions are worse, wages are lower and space for workplace organising is constricted; yet, it is not a straightforward restoration as workers continue to organise.
General strike in India has become almost an annual affair, and shows the astonishing mobilising power of trade unions, yet their political power to win progressive labour reforms are in decline.
Working conditions are worse, wages are lower and space for workplace organising is constricted; yet, it is not a straightforward restoration as workers continue to organise.
The success of Japanese media workers speaking out and organizing against sexual violence at work and for greater gender equality shows ways to build a more just and equal society.
More than 300,000 foreign domestic workers are vital to sustaining Hong Kong society, yet their existence is almost invisible, their voices marginalised, and concerns sidelined. We spoke to FADWU about their campaigns to protect domestic workers' rights.
The striking workers, having held out for so long against employer and government attacks, need international support and labor solidarity as urgently as ever.
The year-long struggle is not only about protecting workers from layoffs, but also the rights of workers to have a union and to protest injustice. ALR spoke to two key union leaders leading the fight.
As China urbanizes, its system of household registration, hukou, continues to exacerbate social, economic and educational inequalities for rural migrant workers and their children.
We are launching ALR as a publication for analysis and discussion about workers and labour movements in Asia. It is a journal not just about - but also for the movement.
