Asia Pacific Currents

Labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. Extended interview with Jitenda Kumar, member of the Maruti Suzuki union Provisional Committee, on the ongoing Maruti Suzuki struggle in the Gurgaon region of northern India. Interpreting carried out by Nayan Jyoti, labour activist and member of Maruti Suzuki support group. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

Labour updates from the Asia Pacific region. Interview with Kalpona Akter, former child garment worker and prominent union organiser and labour rights activist from Bangladesh. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

Labour updates of workers struggles in the Asia Pacific region. Interview with Mikyung Ryu, International Relations Officer of the Korean Confederation of Trade Union (KCTU), on workers involvement in the popular movement to impeach President Park, their objectives and what next now that Pres. Park has been removed from office. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers struggles in the Asia Pacific region. Interview with Ji Ungpakorn, a Thai exile, on the transition to a new king in Thailand and the state of opposition against the ruling military dictatorship in Thailand. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

Labour updates of workers struggles in the Asia Pacific region with specific reference to the court decisions on President Park's impeachment in South Korea and the 117 Maruti Suzuki workers in northern India. Interview with Alex Moodie, Research Officer with the Myanmar human rights organisation Progressive Voice, on the situation for workers in Myanmar and especially in the expanding garment sec...

Labour updates of workers struggles in the Asia Pacific region. Interview with Damian King, Electrical Trades Union organiser in Echuca - Victoria, on the lock out of workers by the global dairy giant Parmalat as it tries to cut workers wages and conditions. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Apologies as the first two APC programs for 2017 are not available as podcasts. Interview with Dr. Sepali Kottegoda who is the Executive Director for the Women and Media Collective and a Founding Coordinator of the Sri Lanka Women’s NGO Forum. Dr. Sepali spoke about the reasons for the visit of their delegation to Australia and the...

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Overview of the year and discussion of the wins, the highlights, the losses and the battles that the labour movement has had in 2016.Asia Pacific Currents will be going on a summer break for 6 weeks. The first programme in 2017 will be on Saturday the 4th of February 2017.The APC radio group would like to wish to all our listerners...

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Matt Kunkel, Project organiser with the Victorian Trades Hall Council, on the union organised rally and Global Street Party in Melbourne, Australia, and why workers need to come out and show opposition to racism and for multiculturalism. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links. 

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Jiselle Hanna from Australia Asia Worker Links (AAWL) reporting back on her solidarity trip to New Delhi and Mumbai and the state of workers organising and struggle in northern India. Next Saturday the 3rd of December is International Disability Day. 3CR Radio will have special programming on that day, so there will...

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Nasir Mansoor, Deputy General Secretary of the National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) of Pakistan, on the recent explosion and massacre of workers at the Gadani shipbreaking yards and the ongoing fight to win better wages and conditions. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Steve Diston, organiser with Electrical Trades Union Victoria Branch, on the ongoing battle against union busting and precarious work at the CUB Brewery in Melbourne, Australia. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Guruh Riyanto from the Media and Campaign Department of Indonesian Confederation of United Workers (KPBI), about the petrol tanker drivers strike in the greater Jakarta metropolitan area, East Indonesia, against casualisation and unpaid overtime. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Piergiorgio Moro, from Australia Asia Worker Links, about the upcoming Global Day of Action against trade union repression on the 16th of November and how internationally workers are repressed by companies and governments. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links.

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Arnel, spokesperson of the Labor Party of the Philippines, on the effects of the continuing War on Drugs is having on working class communities in the Philippines. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker LinksAsia Pacific Currents is produced at the studios of 3CR Radio in Melbourne, Australia.

 Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Wol-san Liem, Director of International and Korean Peninsula Affairs, Korean Public Service and Transport Workers' Union (KPTU), on why truck drivers have also gone out on an indefinite strike in South Korea. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Shivani, a union organiser with Bigul Mazdoor Basta, about the ongoing strike, protests and hunger strike by Honda motor workers in New Delhi. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Kim Yong-Nam, union member from the Railways Union in South Korea, on the current mass strikes in South Korea and the issues that South Korean workers are facing. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Moniruzzaman Masum, Co-ordinator of the Comrade Rubel Workers Centre, on the recent fire at a packaging/foil factory that killed 34 workers. Also discussed was the state of workers organising in Bangladesh and prospect for the future. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Dian and Jumasi, labour activists in the garment industry in Indonesia, on gender and LGBTI issues facing workersAsia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Nambiath Vasudevan, President, New Trade Union Initiative - a federation of Indian trade unions, belonging to formal and informal sectors - and convenor, Trade Union Solidarity Committee, Mumbai, on the massive general strike in India on September 2nd that saw 180 million workers participate. Asia Pacific Currents is...

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Manrico Moro, vice president AAWL, on how the global picketline concept can make international solidarity between workers much more powerful. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Joe Daher, actvist from Syria Freedom Forever, about the current situation in Syria, the state of the popular uprising, and the need for concrete solidarity to stop the war. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. First interview is with Steve Diston, organiser with the Electrical Trades Union of Victoria, on the continuing dispute at the CUB brewery against outsourcing and its international links and significance. Second interview is with Nick McLellan, journalist and long time activist, and the production of a documentary, titled Kirisimas...

Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region. Interview with Chris Breen, from Refugee Action Collective, on the latest scandal to hit Nauru's concentration camp and what the release of these latest files on Nauru incidents will mean for the fight for refugee rights in Australia. Asia Pacific Currents is a program of Australia Asia Worker Links