Thailand. Structure of Thai Labour Movement, November 2008.
The Thai labour movement can be considered as one of the smallest and weakest in
the world. Only about 1.3% of all labour in the country is organized, but the nature of the Thai organized labour movement is one of complexity and difficult to understand.The key objective of the survey is to provide all parties concerned with information and data, to assist them in their search for guidelines for improvement and development of the labour movement so that it would become transparent, strong and unified; the goal being to promote efficiency in working for the benefits of our labour brothers and sisters.
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Burma. Trade union briefings, June 2003
The generals of the military dictatorship have transformed Burma, once a prosperous nation, into a developing country. The civil population is subjected to human rights violations like forced labour, arbitrary arrests, torture and execution. The ICFTU maintains that no connivance with the Burmese regime can be justified. It is also calling for a halt to all foreign investment and the withdrawal of the multinationals present in the country.
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Cambodia. Trade union briefings, January 2004.
In January 2005, the export quota system for textiles will come to an end and Cambodia will be brought into direct competition with countries such as China. Many fear that 2005 will see a massive relocation of production. This would be a hard blow to Cambodia, where textile industry is the largest supplier of jobs in the private sector. This report considers what is the situation of textile workers in Cambodia today and what are the prospects for post-2004?
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The Philippines. Trade union briefings, August 2003.
Tax incentives for investors, low wages and breakneck production rates for workers, mainly young women are some of the payoffs for investors of the EPZ boom in the Philippines. The report highlights the stark reality of these export processing zones and includes vivid testimony on the unrelenting drive towards ever lower costs that is undermining the most fundamental rights of workers.
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A Filipino Metal Worker - Working ife in a changing world
LEARN Philippines
The booklet presents a portrait of a Filipino metal worker. The metal industry is part of a manufacturing sector in the Philippines that has been stunted by years of neocolonial dependence and underdevelopment. As such, it adequately reflects the predicament that the country is facing in the new globalized world.
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