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26-year-old South Australian worker killed in woodchipper accident
57+ min ago (672+ words) Twenty-six-year-old Josh Thomson-Parkin was killed on August 11 in an industrial accident involving heavy machinery in Charleston in South Australia’s Adelaide Hills. Thomson-Parkin was employed by Mechanical Vegetation Solutions (MVS), which was engaged as a contractor at the semi-rural local government-owned…...
Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (1384+ words) The action continued into August 19, when clashes occurred between protesters and police; local reports said workers and police were injured and dozens of protesters were arrested. The action follows a three-day strike in June which ended after the Maharashtra government…...
Chilean miners’ families fight alone as management walks free and unions look the other way
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (514+ words) Through it all, the unions that claim to represent copper workers—the Federation of Copper Workers (FTC), the Confederation of Copper Workers (CTC), and the rest of the corporatized labor apparatus aligned to the Chilean “left”—have done nothing but…...
Fiji’s Vatukoula goldminers receive a paltry payout after 35-year battle
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1217+ words) According to Fijian media, a majority of 368 former workers of the Vatukoula gold mine, which closed in 2006, have received the final tranches of $FJ25,000 ($US11,320) in phased payments relating to a dispute that stretches back 35 years. The payouts are a settlement of…...
Nine months after El Teniente disaster, report finds Chile’s state-owned giant ignored seismic warnings, concealed unsafe mining
1+ week, 4+ day ago (839+ words) The report, finalized in May 2026 and obtained by Chilean media in June, lays bare a pattern of corporate negligence that extended from the mine floor to the highest levels of the state-owned copper giant. Its findings confirm what workers decried…...
Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1133+ words) A planned three-day statewide strike by Haryana electricity employees and engineers was called off at the eleventh hour after talks with Energy Minister Anil Vij. The strike had been scheduled for August 11–13 by a joint front of four major unions…...
Australia: Miner killed at Peak Downs in central Queensland
3+ week, 2+ day ago (1088+ words) A miner was killed and another seriously injured in a collision between two vehicles at the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) Peak Downs open-cut coal mine in central Queensland’s Bowen Basin on July 24. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Andreas…...
Australian industrial workers denounce death threat against Will Lehman
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (415+ words) On Thursday, a meeting of the recently formed Industrial Workers Rank-and-File Group (IWRFG) of Australia unanimously passed a resolution condemning the public death threat against Mack Trucks worker Will Lehman by a high-ranking United Auto Workers (UAW) official. The postal,…...
Australia: BHP iron ore strike in Pilbara—first in decades
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1029+ words) Last Thursday, workers at BHP’s Port Hedland export facility in Western Australia (WA) stopped work for eight hours. It was the first strike by workers in the iron-rich Pilbara region in more than 25 years. Since the start of June, around…...
The 1929–1930 miners’ lockout—a key strategic experience of the Australian working class
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1445+ words) After a brief period of prosperity in the early 1920s, growth faltered as the Australian economy was hit by falling prices for two of its main exports—wool and wheat—amid a deepening global crisis of capitalism. Throughout the decade, unemployment…...