Make progressive wage system mandatory, urges labour group
The NGO points to Singapore, which experienced difficulty in implementing voluntary system.
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The NGO points to Singapore, which experienced difficulty in implementing voluntary system.
On Monday 3 July the Beijing-controlled Hong Kong authorities announced that charges of collusion with foreign powers, subversion and secession were to be brought on a further eight activists not yet in prison nor even in Hong Kong. They accompanied those charges with an unprecedented offer of a bounty of one million HKD (over £100,000) per activist for anyone who can organise their capture overseas.
December 10 was a Global Day of Protest against Apple and their supplier Foxconn over their treatment of up to 300,000 workers at their plants in Zhengzhou, China. In late October Taiwan-based Foxconn’s workers rebelled against effectively held prisoner in the plants for months to maintain production. In the name of “zero Covid”, workers were locked in at close quarters with those ill with Covid.
Delhi anganwadi (early years) workers on strike earlier this year About 50 people attended the formal launch of the India Labour Solidarity campaign in London on 6 December. ILS was set up in the summer – its first activity was leafleting at Labour Party conference in September – to “promote solidarity between workers and their trade union and labour movements in the UK and India”.
December 10 was a Global Day of Protest against Apple and their supplier Foxconn over their treatment of up to 300,000 workers at their plants in Zhengzhou, China. In late October Taiwan-based Foxconn’s workers rebelled against effectively held prisoner in the plants for months to maintain production. In the name of “zero Covid”, workers were locked in at close quarters with those ill with Covid.