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- Thai Labour Campaign leader sees that after clearing the Red Shirts from the streets of Bangkok, the government is likely to turn and target trade union members with political persecution.
- One would have to be very desperate indeed to wish that the situation in his country “was even as good as in Zimbabwe”. This, however, is the situation in Swaziland, as expressed by the opposition leader Mario Masuku.
- A new survey covers 28 garment companies retailing clothes, sportswear and sports gear in Finland.
- During the last decade China has been hit by a wave of wildcat workers strikes, the fundamental cause of which, according to Han Dongfang, is the lack of Chinese workers to engage in collective bargaining with their employers.
- More than 270.000 people took part in a Nordic Fair Trade Challenge on Tuesday 20 October.
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Decent work in Finland? (8.10.2009)
- "Whilst in Finland workers rights can be seen as well respected, there is besides unemployment also in Finland the need to address the issue of precarious workers and the situation of guest workers", said Jarno Kaukola, chair of the student union of the Finnish Confederation of Professionals STTK.
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Finnish recipy: Cutting aid, inflating numbers (31.8.2009)
- The Finnish government has decided to shrink its development cooperation budget for 2010 with EUR 60 million. The saved funds in the budget compromise reached by the cabinet on 27 August are to provide for more then one fourth of a new employment package. The government furthermore decided that funds for the assistance of refugees coming to Finland are to be counted as ODA funds, even though the money will be used in Finland.
- Indian foundry workers earn in a seven-day working week the equivalent of what their Finnish counterparts earn in an hour, says recent FinnWatch report.
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Työmaana maailma magazine articles in English
A selection of articles from the SASK magazine "Työmaana maailma" ("The world is our working place") is translated into English. The magazine in Finnish can be subscribed for free. (In Finland only.) Työmaana maailma is published twice a year, in December and in May.Go to articles