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Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
23 July 2021
GM Korea workers strike for higher wages
Unionised workers at GM Korea took limited strike action at three South Korean plants on Wednesday to demand higher wages and job security, following a series of employer- and union-imposed wage freezes last year. GM Korea and its union, a branch of the Korean Metal Workers Union, have had 13 rounds of negotiations over wages since May.
The union has lodged a claim for a 99,000 won ($US86) increase in monthly base pay, a cash bonus equal to 150 percent of the ordinary monthly wage and a special bonus of four million won. The demands are worth approximately 10 million won in total per worker. In response to previous job cuts they are also demanding the production of new vehicle models at the plant in Bupyeong, in Incheon.
Maritime Union of Australia
Tug crews in Port Melbourne and Westernport have postponed legally protected industrial action, which was due to commence this afternoon, after Svitzer Australia agreed to return to the negotiating table.
The Maritime Union of Australia has been attempting to negotiate a new enterprise agreement with the company for nearly two years
Svitzer Australia, the largest operator of towage services in Australia with a fleet of more than 100 tugs at 28 ports, is owned by the world’s largest container ship and supply vessel operator, Maersk.
The union and the company will also discuss potential options for insourcing and expanding towage operations, including at the Port of Geelong where 18 workers were made redundant last year.
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Australian unions demand Sydney COVID-19 lockdown reversal
Following New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s Saturday morning announcement of stricter lockdown measures in the Greater Sydney region, unions have led the charge for many of these restrictions to be reversed. The campaign by the unions, waged alongside big business, is a stark exposure of the thoroughly corporatised, anti-working-class character of these organisations.
Inner-west Sydney COVID-19 testing station (Photo: WSWS Media)
Berejiklian announced that residents of the Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool regions the local government areas (LGAs) at the centre of Sydney’s ongoing COVID-19 outbreak would no longer be permitted to leave their LGA except for work in healthcare or emergency services. In addition, the state premier announced that all “non-critical” construction would be “paused” for two weeks.