Marcia, a security officer and member of NAMIBIA SECURITY WORKERS UNION (NASWU), worked for Rossington Mines (a Chinese owned company), and has been in dispute with her employers since September 2023. She needs to raise N$ 19800.00 (about £800 UK sterling) to continue her campaign. Marcia was victimised and dismissed after she made complaints about safety in the workplace. She has been fighting … [Read more...]
GERMAN WORKERS FIGHT BACK!
A WIN Discussion October 2024. Listen to the meeting HERE. At this week’s WIN meeting we welcomed a well-known militant activist in Germany: Thorsten Donnermeier is chair of the divisional Volkswagen shop stewards’ council and a member of the union shop stewards’ committee for all Volkswagen factory locations in Kassel, representing more than 10,000 union members. Together with other grass-roots … [Read more...]
USA Trade Union Movement, What Next?
A WIN Discussion, September 2024. Seen as a trend in many countries around the world, the resurgence of a strike wave among workers and youth in the USA has seen a growing movement calling for a new voice for the working class. Yet there is no lead being given by the trade union leadership. Despite the conflict we hear so much about, the two main US parties are no more than rival capitalist … [Read more...]
International Panel: Contracting Out, Union Busting & Privatization In Southern Africa – Zoom Meeting TODAY
July 6 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT (7.30pm UK BST) FREE 12:30 PM CST/1:30 PM EST 7:30 PM SOUTH AFRICA/NAMIBIA/UK BST The destruction of workers in Southern African including in South Africa and Namibia is escalating. Workers are being forced into contract labor which was the type of labor under apartheid conditions. These panelists will report on the fight against union busting and also the … [Read more...]
Iran: campaign to support victimised oil worker Yaser Ahmadinejad – from Internationalist Standpoint
Internationalist Standpoint is calling all it’s readers to send messages of protest and support regarding the case of Iranian oil worker Yaser Ahmadinejad, who has been targeted for a video he posted on social media. Yaser Ahmadinejad is an Arkan Saless Excavation Company worker. These workers have been on strike and Yaser was voicing his support for these just demands. He has been … [Read more...]
THE BATTLE OF ORGREAVE
A WIN discussion June, 2024. Following last week’s WIN meeting marking the fortieth anniversary of the miners’ strike in Britain, John Dunn, a veteran of the strike, introduced a film commemorating a key turning point in that struggle: the battle of Orgreave, in which 5,000 striking miners were attacked by police mounted on horseback, brutally beaten with clubs, and in dozens of cases falsely … [Read more...]
LESSONS OF THE MINERS’ STRIKE: FORTY YEARS ON
A WIN discussion. It is now forty years since the year-long British coal miners’ strike – the greatest industrial conflict in Britain since the General Strike a century ago. 187,000 mine workers took part, bringing the number of working days lost in the strike to over 26 million.11,291 miners were arrested, and nearly 200 jailed. The police blockaded roads to keep pickets away from working … [Read more...]
Messages of support for Marcia Kauatjitotje , victimised Namibian worker
Listen to an interview with Marcia as she gives details of her case here FROM IRELAND - DUBLIN COUNCIL OF TRADE COUNCILS Dublin Council of Trade Unions (DCTU) demands the immediate re-instatement of Marcia Kauatjitotje, a security surveillance operator with Eagle Night Watch at Husab uranium mine in Namibia. She had given evidence on behalf of workers at the recent Labour Tribunal in … [Read more...]
Domestic Defiance: On Pakistan’s First Trade Union Federation for Home-Based Workers
A conversation with Zehra Khan on the founding of Pakistan’s first trade union for home-based women workers. In 2005, Zehra Khan, then a graduate student at the University of Karachi, began a research project with a fellow student on home-based workers in Pakistan’s textile and garments industry. They discovered that most of these workers were women, who contributed significantly to the country’s … [Read more...]
SUPPORT Marcia Kauatjitotje: VICTIMISED FOR TRUTH IN NAMIBIA
FIGHTING WOMAN VICTIMISED - Please see emails below to record messages of solidarity in opposition to the company and the labour commissioners. Marcia Kauatjitotje (37) Security Surveillance operator for Eagle Night Watch in Namibia has been victimized for telling the truth about exploitation and working conditions in the security company. Eagle Night Watch is a sub-contractor to Husab … [Read more...]