FIGHTING FOr freedom of association every day
freedom of association is not a status – it is a process. It is a process of continually defending our rights and interests, of continuously striving to access more rights to strengthen our union for furthering and defending the interests of workers
FIGHTING FOr fARM WORKERS' RIGHTS TO FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION
It is through combination and association in trade unions, exercising collective bargaining power and collective representation, that farm workers can overcome and eliminate the vulnerability deliberately built into agricultural work by farmers, buyers, traders, food companies and supermarkets. Then working in agriculture – feeding the world – can finally be a good job.
Freedom of Association
Compilation of decisions of the ILO Committee on Freedom of Association [6th edition, 2018]
this collection of decisions of the Committee on Freedom of Association is a value resource for trade unionists to understand the broad scope of the right to freedom of association and how employer and government actions, requirements and intervention violate this right
After paying out 100% of profits to “loyal shareholders”, Naga World Hotel Casino terminates over 1,300 workers who worked through the pandemic
After months of ignoring union calls to improve COVID-19 safety measures, Cambodia's largest hotel leisure resort Naga World Hotel Casino announced the mass redundancy of over 1,300 workers for "business reasons". The mass retrenchment includes over 600 union members...
Naga World Hotel Casino ignored union calls for stricter COVID-19 safety measures. Now hundreds of workers are paying the price.
Following reports of two COVID-19 outbreaks in the Naga World Hotel Casino complex in Phnom Penh in February, the IUF-affiliated Labor Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees of Naga World (LRSU) wrote three letters to management calling for stricter COVID-19 safety...
Coca-Cola workers across Asia express solidarity for striking workers in Hong Kong
Coca-Cola workers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philippines responded to the strike in Hong Kong with solidarity actions, with messages calling on the company to respect trade union rights and collective bargaining rights. Coca-Cola Hong Kong to...
Coca-Cola workers on strike in Hong Kong – “Swire Coca-Cola Hong Kong Betrays and Abandons Workers!”
The Swire Coca-Cola Hong Kong Beverages Employees General Union launched strike action on May 28 to protest aggressive wage cuts and defend collective bargaing rights. The union, which is affiliated to HKCTU and the IUF, took industrial action in response to...
Global Union Federations in the Asia-Pacific condemn extensive labour rights violations by the military in Myanmar
Today the Asia-Pacific Regional Organizations of the Global Union Federations issued a Factsheet listing extensive labour rights violations by the military in Myanmar. The document lists in detail a range of abuses of worker and trade union rights since the military...
Remembering the Massacre of Students & Workers in Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989
As political repression in Hong Kong escalates and the genocide against the Uyghur people in Xinjiang continues, Beijing's surveillance, control and censorship nationally and internationally is also escalating. Any criticism of the Chinese government triggers...