- Hundreds of Richmond community members joined climate change advocates, public health experts, local government and labor leaders today in a colorful march, protest and non-violent civil disobedience at Chevron’s Richmond refinery. Thirteen people were arrested.
- In Bangladesh, over 1,000 former workers, retrenched from Mongla Port due to new labour laws in 2008, began a non-stop sit-in protest Monday morning demanding the reintroduction of the call station booking system and payment of arrears.
- Sixteen employees at 4Home Superstores in Co Cork, South West Ireland, staged a sit-in protest for more than 24 hours after being told that the outlet was to close the next day and that they would only receive statutory redundancy, despite many of the workers having been with the company for more than 25 years.
- Around 55,000 auto-rickshaws in New Delhi went off the roads yesterday as part of a two-day strike to protest the government’s crackdown on drivers operating without permits, licenses and pollution control certificates.
- Frustrated by historically low prices at the peak of the shrimp season, several hundred shrimpers will converge on the Louisiana State Capitol steps today asking for someone to investigate a downward price spiral they say threatens the industry’s livelihood.
- Around 50 Dublin Port workers and their supporters picketed and distributed leaflets in the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) outside the offices of Deutsche Bank – a major shareholder in the port business. The dockers have been on strike for six weeks over plans by the UK firm Marine Terminals to axe 37 jobs.
- Coordination of Right to Life for Erol Zavar began a five-day hunger strike with a press confrence in Ankara to draw attention to serious health conditions of political prisoners in prisons.
- The Chinese government has been forced to cancel the privatisation of a steel firm after 3,000 workers protested last week, the country’s state-run media has reported.
- No fewer than six workers of the Lagos State government Bus Rapid Transport (BRT), including two women, who yesterday embarked on strike and protest for improved welfare and conditions of service, were arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command and taken to unknown destination.
