Labor & East Timor
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World Bank security guards on
strike in Dili, East Timor. Photo by Karen Orenstein.
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2005
Maritime Union of Australia:
LNG shipments raise
union alarm (January 9); Maritime
and Transport Workers Union of East Timor:
Timorese
workers call on Australian comrades to protest LNG giant
APHEDA:
East Timor Country Strategy (March)
APHEDA:
Justice for East Timor in Oil & Gas Negotiations (07/06/05)
ACTU:
Unions Urge Fair Go For East Timorese In Timor Sea Talks
(4/23/05)
2004
Multinational Monitor:
World Bank Labor
Troubles in Timor by Karen Orenstein/ETAN
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA:
Lessons From East Timor (August)
UNI:
Davos: UNI raises World Bank dispute in East Timor
(1/23/04)
World Bank
Called Upon to Observe Labor Rights Standards in Treatment of
Subcontractors Employees
in East Timor (01/21/04)
APHEDA Alert on Chubb Workers (January 2004)
Global union
backs campaign for Chubb security workers in East Timor
(01/08/04)
2003
KSTL:
World Bank
strikers in Timor fired! (December)
East
Timor unionists end nation's first-ever strike
(October 22)
Australian
union official arrested during industrial row
(October 8)
East
Timor workers to strike against Australian-owned company
(October 2)
Workers
battle IMF agenda (Sept 3)
Transport Int'l:
New
Union for a New Country (July)
Maritme Workers Journal:
Union Alliance -
MUA/AWU Solidarity in multi-billion dollar Industry (July)
Australian
companies are `worst employers' (July 23)
Aust
employers criticised for resisting E Timor unions
(June 15)
2002
ILO:
A new labour code for the
world's newest country (June)
ACTU warns on
Timor Sea Treaty between Australia Timor (April)
2000
National Council Approves Motion On Labour (December
15)
Asbestos
contamination in East Timor (June)
Rolling
stoppages hit public transport system
(June 21)
New ACTU chief
spends May Day helping Timor
(May 20)
Workers
confront discrimination, poor conditions (May 3)
East
Timor Workers Organise First May Day Public Holiday
(April 28)
Free East Timor?
For the Workers, It's Just Cheap (April 7)
Staff at
U.N. floating hotel strikes for better pay (February
11)
1999
LabourNet:
Ramos Horta Calls for Workers’ Support (September 10)
Unions plan
industrial action over Timor (May)
ACTU
threatens to act against Indonesia over Timor (April
30)
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