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Monday, 19 July 2010 07:07 |
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When workers rights are under attack – Stand Up, Fight Back!
The rights of every worker in this country are under attack.
The National Government has just announced a number of significant changes to the Employment Relations Act. There are five major changes: |
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010 21:55 |
“We are locked in here for almost the entire day like dogs in a kennel, strapped to our stations and clad like automatons…we are like their slaves who must pay them a measure of due homage. When we protest at their brutal treatment, they often become violent and it’s downright frightening…”
– [Translated] letter to family from Pei Pei, Foxconn factory worker, Shenzhen, China.
At Foxconn’s Longhua factory near Shenzhen, 300,000 workers in one gigantic factory complex are coerced into working incredibly long hours. One employee - who recently died from fatigue - once worked 127 hours of overtime in a month. They are paid a pitiful 900 RMB ($A162) per month.
Employees are prohibited from speaking to each other during shifts. They are not permitted to have unauthorised toilet breaks, and women workers are regularly subjected to rape, beatings and sexual harassment by company bosses.
A well-oiled security force patrols the factory, intimidating workers through violence and spot-searches. The atmosphere here is more suited to a prison than a factory. Apple CEO Steve Jobs – whose iPhones and iPods are produced here – declared these conditions “pretty nice, for a factory.”
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Tuesday, 01 June 2010 11:18 |
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Thursday, 03 June 2010 23:03 |
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3 June 2010
www.wsws.org
The Israeli military’s killing of nine civilians and wounding of scores more on a ship carrying humanitarian supplies in international waters was an act of cold-blooded murder and a war crime.
For millions of people around the world, this military assault on an aid convoy carrying wheelchairs, cement, water purification systems, children’s toys and notebook paper to Gaza—all items barred by Israel’s blockade of the occupied territory—epitomizes the role played by Israel, as well as that of its US sponsor, in global affairs.
As always in the aftermath of such atrocities, the Israeli government has blamed its victims. In a televised speech Wednesday, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu described the aid convoy as a “flotilla of terror supporters” and praised the slaughter on the high seas as an act of self-defense by besieged Israeli commandos.
Those who engaged in self-defense were the passengers on the ship, and they had every right to do so. The fact that nine of them were killed, while the Israel Defense Force (IDF) commandos suffered not a single fatality, is evidence as to who was the aggressor.
This is a regular pattern. The massacre in the Mediterranean comes just a year and a half after Operation Cast Lead, the far greater slaughter that the Israeli regime unleashed against the suffering people of Gaza. |
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