People before profits! Unilever joint venture workers in Indonesia demand a living wage
After years of sub-standard wages barely above the legal minimum wage, over 600 workers at the Kecap Bango factory in Subang, Indonesia, are holding protest actions demanding a living wage. For years the union, SPMKB, has been unable to make progress through wage...
Shame on Marriott! Stop victimization of union members and leaders, reinstatement now!
Hotel workers continue to protest in front of Courtyard by Marriott in Bandung, demanding reinstatement of unfairly terminated union members and leaders. Although management claims the terminations were for “efficiency” reasons, their dismissal followed the union’s...
Fairmont Bali Fight Continues: “We won’t be tired, We won’t give up, We won’t be silenced, If justice sinks, we will fight!”
As Bali slowly reopens to international tourism, unscrupulous employers are still refusing reinstatement. Workers from Accor's Fairmont Sanur hotel resort were falsely declared redundant last July, when they were terminated for organizing a union. Management then...
As tourism begins to recover, hotel workers in Bali and Bandung demand an end to unfair dismissals. Accor and Marriott are responding with unethical, unsustainable tourism.
With the Indonesian government's success in the vaccination roll out and stringent measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19, domestic and international tourism is starting to recover. Hotel and tourism workers are going back to work, once again on the frontline in...
world food systems workers call for action NOW on climate change!
In the lead up to the UN Climate Change Conference [COP26] on 1-12 November 2021, food systems workers in the Asia-Pacific region are calling for urgent action on the climate crisis. For more than a decade scientists have warned that the average rise in the earth's...
“build back tourism in Indonesia!” On World Tourism Day hotel workers call for building back better, securing jobs & stopping unfair dismissals
On World Tourism Day, September 27, members of the IUF-affiliated FSPM held public rallies and marches in five cities across the country to call on local governments to support "building back" Indonesian tourism and to "build back better". [gallery...
DEFENDING RIGHTS & LIVELIHOODS IN THE COVID-19 era
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WOMEN, UNIONS & POWER
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THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION
All workers have the right to form or join a trade union. Only through freedom of association can workers collectively improve their wages and working conditions; secure a safe workplace; promote gender equality; end discrimination, harassment & violence; overcome vulnerability & insecure jobs; and live a life worthy of human dignity.
ABOUT IUF ASIA-PACIFIC
The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tourism, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) was established in 1920. As a result of the struggle to organize independent, democratic trade unions in Asia and the Pacific with international solidarity, these independent unions established the IUF Regional Organization for Asia and the Pacific in 1962. The IUF Asia-Pacific is a regional organization of the global IUF and has its own constitution and rules. Every 5 years a Regional Conference of delegates representing affiliates in the region elects the Regional Secretary, Regional President and the Regional Committee.
14th IUF Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 2022
The next statutory Regional Conference of the IUF Regional Organization for Asia and the Pacific will be held in October 2022.
