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A song dedicated to the striking dock workers
Thanks to the person who posted this song on the Hong Kong Dock Worker’s Strike facebook Thanks too to Mamos for helping with the poetic translation. The rough English translation is below! Striking...
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A poem for May Day, from an elder
Seattle joins the world in a ruckus May Day! It is time for resistance and celebration, in joy and hope for new beginnings! A beautiful poem to share, from an elder: What can you see What can you do...
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More dockers join the strike!
To read the Union of Hong Kong Dock Workers update, see here To donate to the expanding strike, see here Listen to the interview with strike organizer here More Dockers Join Strike Striking dockers say...
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Dockers’ strike shines a spotlight on Li Ka-shing’s business empire
Reposting from CWI-affiliated Socialistworld.net Li Ka-shing owns 13 percent of the world’s port capacity and much more besides… Dikang, Socialist Action (CWI supporters in Hong Kong) Hong Kong dockers...
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300% Pay Raises
A striking analysis from comrade Richard Chen: The container terminal makes margins of 30%. The profit is about 400 million US dollars a year. (Numbers are from documents supplied by the dockers...
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Hong Kong Dockworkers End 40-Day Strike
Monday May 6, 2013, 9:07 AM SIMON LEE AND JASMINE WANG Associated Press Print | E-mail (c) 2013, Bloomberg News. HONG KONG — Port workers at billionaire Li Ka- shing’s Hongkong International Terminals...
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Hong Kong Dockers Claim Victory & Interview With HK Strike Leader
Hong Kong Dockers Claim Victory Ellen David Friedman May 7, 2013 More than 500 dockworkers at the Port of Hong Kong ended their 40-day strike yesterday with a settlement that included a 9.8 percent...
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HKCTU End of Strike Statement
Union of Hong Kong Dockers 6 May 2013 Members of UHKD decided in the meeting held this evening to call an end to the 40-day strike in the HIT terminals. On 6 May, UHKD received a written confirmation...
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Changed Social Landscape Emerges from Dock Strike
Stephen Vines May 11 2013 Unionists cheer dockers on their first day back at the port. Photo: Edward Wong Who won the port strike? As ever, this kind of question has no simple answer but, such...
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Holy Crap, Tar Sands/Keystone XL Related To Skagit Bridge Collapse
A recent major accident in the Pacific Northwest, just another piece of this drilling, shipping, and money-making business that stretches across oceans. The following is reposted from Daily Kos. Sun...
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China & Hong Kong labor reading group
In preparation for the upcoming visit by Hong Kong port workers in April, some of us in Seattle are gathering to do some reading and discuss the significance of Chinese labor struggle to local...
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Trans Pacific Unity vs Global capitalists — reading group on China/HK labor
See reading group FB invite here When the Hong Kong dock workers went on a historic 40 day strike last May, they used the slogan, “All On the Same Ocean” (see video below) to describe their struggle....
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Readings on Gender and Labor in the Pearl River Delta
Here are the readings we are doing this week in preparation for the Hong Kong dockworkers’ visit to Seattle: Gender in the Pearl River Delta selections
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