- A sit-in by 240 workers that halted operations at a South African platinum mine owned by African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and Impala Platinum came to an end after four sacked workers were re-hired.
- Thousands of Indian auto-parts workers went on strike yesterday to protest the death of a colleague, threatening to cripple an industry that has become an engine for the economy.
- A nationwide strike by French railway workers, anxious about the restructuring of freight transport, caused transport delays across the country yesterday morning.
- On Monday, a score of workers of the Split Ironworks (Zeljezara Split) in Croatia began a hunger strike on the premises of the company in the Adriatic city, asking for the urgent resumption of the production in the plant which discontinued in April this year.
- In South Korea, a coalition of 23 groups, including the Migrant Workers Trade Union, protested in front of the Hwaseong Immigration Detention Centre in Gyeonggi Province last Friday. They were demanding the release of Minod Moktan, a 33-year-old Nepali musician and cultural activist who, like other migrant workers, is undocumented and has been the target for a government expulsion order.
