http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/4/749863/-Bronx-Cookie-Factory-Is-Ordered-to-Reinstate-Striking-Workers

Hat tip to unionreview!!!

Nice to see justice at last

Here's a pic from today's NUJ/IFJ/TUC/Amnesty protest outside the Gambian Embassy, where Gambian and UK unionists handed in a letter protesting at the arrest and scheduled trial for sedition of seven Gambia Press Union officials and Gambian unionised journalists.

General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists Jeremy Dear, who took part in the protest, said: 'These seven journalists have been locked up and put on trial for writing stories and press releases that would be part of normal democratic debate in most countries of the world. The NUJ calls for their immediate and unconditional release and for the Government of Gambia to change their media laws to allow genuine freedom of expression.'

You can take an urgent Amnesty letter/fax action to help this case here.

Globe and Mail employees have reached a tentive agreement. Details to follow.

Today's Australian Jewish News is running the following news item about the global trade union protests against the Iranian regime.

In an unusual partnership the Jewish community recently joined with Australia’s union movement to protest labour conditions in Iran.

According to reports, about 100 unionists gathered outside the Iranian Embassy in Canberra last Friday.

The crowd wanted to present the ambassador with a letter from the Australian Council of Trade Unions calling for the Iranian  government to respect basic workers’ rights.

Before the protest, Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) president Robert Goot said, “ The ECAJ expresses its solidarity with Australian trade unionists and other Australians in calling upon the Australian, and other governments, and the International Labour Organisation to increase pressure on the Iranian Government to stop assassination attempts, persecution, arrests, threats, violence and other repressive measures against workers and labour activists.”

He explained that the International Labour Organisation – a UN-associated organization to which Iran belongs – found Iran had violated discrimination conventions.

Iranian employers and educational institutions had been noted in their discrimination against minority groups, namely the Jewish and Baha’I communities.

“ Discrimination in employment on the basis of religion is especially entrenched with regard to posts within the judicial system, election to Islamic labour councils and access to university education,” Goot said.

While the Iranian ambassador Mahmoud Movahhedi refused to meet with protestors, Kim Sattler, secretary of Unions ACT, asked police outside the embassy to pass on a letter.

The protest was part of a global action day of justice for Iranian workers, with similar events held overseas in places like Belgium, Thailand, Japan and Nigeria.

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