Solidarity Center News: Striking Indonesian Workers Make Gains, Two Teachers Jailed in Bahrain

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)In Indonesia, a strike by 2 million blue-collar workers over wages and job outsourcing resulted in government promises to improve worker pay and subcontracting. The one-day walkout in October halted work on more than 80 industrial “estates” (sites) mainly throughout Java and the island of Batam, across from Singapore. Meanwhile, in Bahrain, two teachers received jail terms for supporting calls for government reform. Read these stories and more on the Solidarity Center website. - photo: Indonesian workers rally; photo courtesy of Solidarity Center