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2021 will not be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be the year of action (or inaction) on the climate crisis.
The greatest threat to global public health is the continued failure of world leaders to keep the global temperature rise below 1.5° C and to restore nature.[1] There's no doubt that for most people 2021 is the second year of the great pandemic, and for many it has...
Accor and Hilton are doing business with Myanmar’s military cartel. On the International Day of Democracy IUF members across Asia-Pacific say STOP!
Even after the military coup on February 1, 2021, Accor and Hilton continue with business as usual. On the International Day of Democracy, September 15, IUF members across the Asia-Pacific region and telling Accor and Hilton to STOP doing business with the military and military cronies in Myanmar!
Marriott workers in Indonesia continue protest actions against unfair dismissals
Members of the IUF-affiliated FSPM continue to hold protest actions demanding the reinstatement of 12 unfairly terminated union leaders and members, including the union president. They were terminated in retaliation for reporting labour rights violations at the hotel....
Video: IUF members call on UN General Assembly to reject Myanmar’s military junta
IUF members call on UN General Assembly to reject Myanmar’s military junta
IUF members are expressing their solidarity and sending a clear message to all governments and the UN. The United Nations General Assembly must reject any recognition of the military government.
International Day of Democracy 2021 posters: Accor and Hilton must stop financing Myanmar’s military junta
Posters in English, Japanese, Thai, Khmer, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, Urdu, Bengali and Myanmar languages.
International Day of Democracy 2021 posters: the UN must reject Myanmar’s military junta
Posters in English, Dhivehi, Japanese, Thai, Khmer, Indonesian, Hindi, Chinese, Urdu, Bengali and Myanmar languages.
Social, health and environmental standards should not be privatized. Sustainable food systems need effective labour inspection systems.
In recent years we have seen growing public awareness of the social and environmental impact of food supply chains. Of course much greater awareness and action is needed, especially in terms of the appalling working conditions in agriculture and irreparable damage to...
Marriott workers in Indonesia protest unfair dismissals for reporting labour rights violations
On August 26, workers at Courtyard by Marriott in Bandung launched protest actions in response to the unfair termination of 15 workers including the union president. Although management claims the terminations were for "efficiency" reasons, their dismissal followed...
trade unions call on UN to reject Myanmar’s military government in lead-up to the International Day of Democracy 2021
15 September was designated as the International Day of Democracy by the United Nations General Assembly in 2007, which passed a resolution encouraging governments to strengthen and consolidate democracy. In particular the reference was made to Article 21(3) of the...
GSEPL sugar mill in India is killing fish and creating food insecurity
For more than a decade the private sugar mill operated by Gangakhed Sugar and Energy Private Limited (GSEPL) in Parbhani, Maharashtra, has regularly released untreated effluent into a nearby lake and irrigation canals. This has caused a such a significant loss of...
Disguised employment at Lipton tea producer in Pakistan under investigation for labour rights violations
Production is booming and workers are working overtime at the "Lipton tea factory" in Pakistan. This is happening in the weeks leading up to the sale of Unilever's tea business under the new global tea company ekaterra. But it is not the unionized Lipton tea factory...
Sajeeb Group Workers Justice Committee calls for Hashem Foods fire tragedy and child labour to be incorporated into ILO Road Map
At a press conference on 16 August, the Sajeeb Group Workers Justice Committee welcomed the findings of the report of investigation committee formed by the Narayanganj district commissioner office into the fire tragedy at Hashem Foods factory. The investigation report...
As Unilever launches its new global tea business, Lipton tea workers in Pakistan are protesting against deception and insecurity
As Unilever prepares to launch the new global tea company ekaterra on 1st October, workers in Pakistan are protesting against local management's deliberate deception and misinformation that has undermined job security and created even greater anxiety in a pandemic....
COVID-19 vaccination awareness campaign for women farm workers in Pakistan
The IUF-affiliated Sindh Nari Porhyat Council [SNPC], a union of women agricultural workers, made tremendous progress last year in promoting COVID-19 awareness and safety protocols. The distribution of masks and posters in Sindhi on the proper use of masks helped to...
Coca-Cola Philippines workers overcome “red tagging” fear in victory for independent unions
In a major victory against the climate of fear created by "red-tagging", more Coca-Cola workers in the Philippines have voted in favour of independent, democratic trade unions to defend their rights and interests. On 21 July 2021, over 200 workers at two Coca-Cola...
Lotte Kolson profited from child labour in the Hashem Foods tragedy
Along with Idilia Foods' Nocilla chocolate hazelnut spread and Shezan International's Shezan juices, the Kolson pasta products of Lotte Kolson were manufactured at the Hashem Foods factory where a tragic fire killed dozens of workers on 8 July and dozens more suffered...
Sajeeb Group decides a worker’s life is worth $2,317. Families of victims must give up any further compensation claims.
From 16 to 18 July 2021, management of Sajeeb Group summoned 24 relatives of workers who died in the fire to give them compensation of BDT 200,000 [EUR 1,962 ; USD 2,317] for each worker who died. This included the under-aged workers, some as young as 11 years old. To...
Spanish confectionery brand Nocilla identified in Hashem Foods factory fire
Workers identified the hazelnut and chocolate spread manufactured under the brand name Nocilla for Spanish company Idilia Foods as one of the main food products made on the third floor of the Hashem Foods factory. Early reports suggest that a pipeline carrying edible...
Hashem Foods ignored warnings on fire safety and child labour. The authorities did nothing.
Months before the tragic fire at Hashem Foods factory, management ignored notices issued by the fire services department concerning the lack of fire safety and in particular the lack of fire-fighting equipment. At that time the inspectors saw there was child labour in...
Working in luxury, living in poverty. Naga World Hotel Casino workers face more poverty after mass redundancies.
After years of working in the luxurious Naga World Hotel Casino complex in Phnom Penh, over 1,300 workers were thrown out in a mass redundancy program. Naga Corp, “one of the world’s most profitable gaming companies, and the largest gaming entertainment company in the...
Sajeeb Group shuts website, hides brands responsible for killing workers including child labour
Even before firefighters could extinguish the fire at Hashem Foods factory, the Sajeeb Group chairman, Abdul Hashem, quickly denied any responsibility for the fire that killed more than 52 workers. And as the search for the bodies of missing women and girls working in...
“find my mother” – the story of a child labourer in the Hashem Foods factory fire in Bangladesh
The following is an extract from an article published in the newspaper, Kaler Kantho, on July 10, 2021, under the title "Find my mother": Halima's daughter Taslima took a job as a laborer at Hashem Foods at the age of 11, five years ago. The mother and daughter were...
Pakistan Food Workers’ Federation condemns killing of workers in Bangladesh fire tragedy, calls on Shezan International to take responsibility
The IUF-affiliated Pakistan Food Workers' Federation (PFWF) issued a statement expressing solidarity with the workers and families of victims of the tragic fire at the Hashem Foods factory in Rupganj in Narayanganj district in Bangladesh. PFWF condemned the hazardous...
Children working as child labour among those killed and injured in Hashem Foods factory fire in Bangladesh
Among the bodies recovered from the horrific Hashem Foods factory fire are an unknown number of children who were exploited as child labour. Children were among the severely injured, as well as those who escaped by jumping from the second floor. See "find my mother" -...
Food and agricultural unions in Bangladesh demand justice for Sajeeb Group workers in fire tragedy
In response to the tragic death of workers in the Hashem Foods factory fire, several food, beverage and agricultural trade unions formed the Sajeeb Group Workers Justice Committee and called on the government to "investigate the violation of workers’ rights, including...
Hazardous working conditions kill dozens of food workers in fire tragedy in Bangladesh
[photo credit: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters] The tragic fire at the Hashem Foods Ltd factory in Rupganj in Narayanganj district, on the outskirts of Dhaka, started on the afternoon of Thursday July 8 and was still burning 24 hours later. So far 52 workers are...
IUFアジア太平洋14回地域総会
アジア太平洋地域のIUF組合員は、5年ごとに開催される地域総会において議決権を行使する。IUFアジア太平洋地域組織規約[2016]の第5条(7)によると、地域総会は地域組織の最高機関である。地域総会は、決議を行い、財務報告を含む報告書を検討・採択し、規約を改正し、地域委員会を選出し、地域議長を選出し、地域書記長を選出する。これらはすべて、IUFアジア太平洋地域組織規約に記載されている手順と規則、およびIUF規約[2017]に従って行われる。...
Solidarity across Asia-Pacific for striking General Mills workers in Australia
Food workers in Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and the Maldives in solidarity with striking General Mills workers in Australia. They called on the US-based General Mills to recognize the contribution and hard work of essential food...
14 වන අයි.යූ.එෆ්. ආසියා / පැසිෆික් කලාපීය සමුළුව
සෑම වසර පහකට වරක් පැවැත්වෙන කලාපීය සමුළුවේදී ආසියාවේ සහ පැසිෆික් කලාපයේ අයි.යූ.එෆ්. සාමාජිකයින් සිය ඡන්ද අයිතිය ක්රියාත්මක කරති. ආසියා සහ පැසිෆික් කලාපය සඳහා වන අයි.යූ.එෆ්. කලාපීය සංවිධානයේ [2016] ව්යවස්ථා සංග්රහයේ 5 (7) වගන්ති ප්රකාරව කලාපීය සමුළුව යනු කලාපීය...
ILO resolution calls for restoration of democracy and respect for fundamental rights in Myanmar
On 19 June 2021 the 109th Session of the International Labour Conference passed the Resolution for a return to democracy and respect for fundamental rights in Myanmar. This resolution clearly reflects the tripartite commitment of governments, trade unions and...
14वां IUF एशिया/पसिफ़िक क्षेत्रीय सम्मेलन
एशिया और पसिफ़िक क्षेत्र में IUF के सदस्य, हर पांच साल में आयोजित होने वाले क्षेत्रीय सम्मेलन में अपने मताधिकार का प्रयोग करते हैं। IUF एशिया और पसिफ़िक क्षेत्रीय संगठन विधियों [2016] के अनुच्छेद 5 (7) के अनुसार, क्षेत्रीय सम्मेलन क्षेत्रीय संगठन का प्राधिकारी है।...
第十四屆國際飲食品勞聯亞太區會議
亞洲及太平洋地區的國際飲食品勞聯成員都會在五年一屆的區域會議上行使投票權。根據國際飲食品勞聯亞洲及太平洋區域組織章程[2016]第5條第7款，區域會議是區域組織的最高權力機構。區域會議通過決議、審查和通過包括財務報告在內的報告、修改章程、選舉區域委員會、選舉區域主席和選舉區域秘書。以上一切根據國際飲食品勞聯亞洲及太平洋區域組織章程中的程序和規程以及國際飲食品勞聯規程[2017]。...
សន្និសីទតំបន់អាស៊ីប៉ាស៊ីហ្វិក IUF លើកទី ១៤
សមាជិក IUF នៅអាស៊ីនិងប៉ាស៊ីហ្វិកអនុវត្តសិទ្ធិបោះឆ្នោតរបស់ពួកគេនៅឯសន្និសីទប្រចាំតំបន់ដែលធ្វើឡើងរៀងរាល់៥ ឆ្នាំម្តង។ យោងតាមមាត្រា៥ (៧) នៃលក្ខន្តិកៈ ការគ្រប់គ្រងប្រចាំតំបន់របស់ IUF សម្រាប់អាស៊ីនិងប៉ាស៊ីហ្វិក(២០១៦)...
၁၄ ကြိမ်မြောက် IUF အာရှပစိဖိတ်ဒေသဆိုင်ရာ ညီလာခံ
ငါးနှစ်တကြိမ်ကျင်းပလေ့ရှိသော ဒေသဆိုင်ရာ ညီလာခံတွင် အာရှပစိဖိတ်ဒေသရှိ IUF အဖွဲ့ဝင်များမှ ၎င်းတို့၏ မဲပေးပိုင်ခွင့်ကို ကျင့်သုံးခွင့်ရရှိကြသည်။ IUF အာရှ ပစိဖိတ်ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအဖွဲ့အစည်း၏ ပြဌာန်းချက် - ၂၀၁၆ အရ ဒေသဆိုင်ရာညီလာခံသည် ဒေသဆိုင်ရာအဖွဲ့အစည်းကြီး၏...
การประชุมระดับภูมิภาคไอยูเอฟเอเชียแปซิฟิก ครั้งที่ 14
สมาชิกสหพันธ์แรงงานอาหารระหว่างประเทศ (IUF) ภาคพื้นเอเชียแปซิฟิกมีสิทธิออกเสียงลงมติในที่ประชุมระดับภูมิภาคทุก ๆ 5 ปี ตามมาตรา 5 (7) ของธรรมนูญไอยูเอฟภาคพื้นเอเชียแปซิฟิก [2016] การประชุมระดับภูมิภาคเป็นการตัดสินใจระดับสูงสุดขององค์กรระดับภูมิภาค...
promoting COVID-19 vaccination among young agricultural workers in India
In Gujarat, India, young members of the Gujarat Agricultural Labour Union (GALU) are vaccinated in Panchmahal district, a tribal district with high level of vaccine hesitancy. GALU's youth organization Tarvariya Tarun Sangathan (TSS), which also runs its school of...
১৪ তম আইইউএফ এশিয়া/প্যাসিফিক আঞ্চলিক সম্মেলন
আইইউএফ এশিয়া ও প্যাসিফিক অঞ্চলের সদস্যরা প্রতি পাঁচ বছরে অনুষ্ঠিত হওয়া আঞ্চলিক সম্মেলনে তাদের ভোটাধিকার প্রয়োগ করেন। এশিয়া ও প্যাসিফিক অঞ্চলের জন্য আইইউএফ আঞ্চলিক সংস্থার বিধিমালার অনুচ্ছেদ ৫ (৭) অনুসারে আঞ্চলিক সম্মেলন আঞ্চলিক সংস্থার সর্বোচ্চ কর্তৃপক্ষ। আঞ্চলিক...
آئی یو ایف کی 14ویں علاقائی کانفرنس
ایشیاء اور بحر الکاہل میں آئی یو ایف کے ممبران ہر پانچ سال بعد ہونے والی علاقائی کانفرنس میں اپنے ووٹ کا حق کا استعمال کرتے ہیں۔ آئی یو ایف ریجنل آرگنائزیشن برائے ایشیا پیسیفک [2016] کے آئین کے آرٹیکل 5 (7) کے مطابق علاقائی کانفرنس علاقائی تنظیم کا اعلیٰ اختیار ہے۔...
Konferensi Regional IUF Asia Pasifik ke-14
Anggota IUF di Asia dan Pasifik menggunakan hak suara mereka di Konferensi Regional yang diadakan setiap lima tahun. Menurut Pasal 5 (7) Statuta Organisasi Regional IUF untuk Asia dan Pasifik [2016] Konferensi Regional adalah otoritas tertinggi Organisasi Regional....
Essential food workers at General Mills strike for decent pay, secure jobs
After working hard throughout the pandemic as essential food industry workers, members of the IUF-affiliated United Workers Union (UWU) are on strike for decent wages and fair treatment. For workers at the General Mills factory in Rooty Hill in New South Wales,...
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...
Organizing rural workers’ rights to food, health and livelihoods in India
With the surge of COVID-19 in cities across India, millions of migrant workers returned to their villages in rural areas. They feared a repeat of the 2020 crisis when they lost their jobs and livelihoods during the strict lockdown. Around 20 per cent of migrant...
In the fight for health & safety rights, women tea workers are getting vaccinated
In the early stages of the pandemic in 2020, women's self-organized Water, Sanitation & Health Committees on tea plantations in West Bengal and Assam included COVID-19 awareness in their ongoing fight for health and safety rights. From April 2020 they ensured...
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...
The 14th IUF Asia/Pacific Regional Conference
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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...
Lee Cheuk Yan replies to charges that criminalize peaceful demonstrations in Hong Kong
In his written pea submitted on May 24, HKCTU General Secretary Lee Cheuk Yan decribes the importance of the peaceful demonstration on October 1, 2019, in the ongoing struggle for democratic reform in China.
In fighting charges that deny freedom of assembly, Lee Cheuk Yan recalls the tragedy of June 4, 1989
In his written plea in response to charges of unauthorised assembly on 1 October 2019, Lee Cheuk Yan, the General Secretary of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) explains the significance of June 4, 1989 and why we must not forget.
Supporting rural women workers’ access to COVID-19 vaccines in India
The IUF Asia/Pacific Regional Organization is supporting women leaders and organizers in villages in several states in India. Through the IUF Asia/Pacific Regional Solidarity Fund and the special contribution of the United Workers Union (UWU) in Australia, we are able to support thousands of women leaders and organizers in rural areas as frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19.
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...
fighting for freedom in Hong Kong from inside and outside the wall: Lee Cheuk Yan’s letter from prison
HKCTU General Secretary, Brother Lee Cheuk Yan's letter from prison: Brothers and Sisters outside the wall, Life in prison is monotonous, but healthy enough. Apart from missing my family and everyone, everything is fine. Today is Wednesday, the sixth day in prison,...
Accor tells hotel workers in Indonesia: lie and you can have your job back
For a company that repeatedly fails to tell the truth in its reports to the authorities in France under the Corporate Duty of Vigilance Law and its reports to shareholders, Accor's actions in Indonesia suggest this is becoming part of its corporate culture. Accor has...
eliminating child labour in agriculture needs guaranteed living wages, fair crop prices and freedom from debt
In 2019 the United Nations General Assembly declared 2021 as the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour (IYECL). The prospects of any progress towards this goal are extremely dim. As we have already witnessed, decades of neoliberal policies created...
International Workers’ Day in Hong Kong and solidarity in the Asia-Pacific region
Despite political repression and restrictions on rallies and public activities, HKCTU organized a public event on On May 1st, International Workers' Day. The public exhibition and leafleting drew public support despite a heavy police presence. The activity raised...
You have to believe it will change. A story of courage in Hong Kong
Translation of an article by Ming Pao reporter, LAW KA Ying, published in Ming Pao on May 2, 2021. Lee Cheuk Yan, General Secretary of HKCTU, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for two cases of unapproved assembly of "8.18" and "8.31" in 2019. This year, he need to...
Reasserting public interest over private profit in the COVID-19 era
Hidayat Greenfield, IUF Asia/Pacific Regional Secretary There can be no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic and the prolonged crisis we face for the next decade exposes the vulnerability and weaknesses of the prevailing political and economic system.[1] It also exposes...
Regional Secretary’s solidarity message on International Workers’ Day – 1 May 2021
On International Workers' Day we will have all sorts of demands in different countries, depending on different situations. But I think what unites us is that we know that working people deserve better. We know that we need to come together to build the economic,...
solidarity with workers of Myanmar and Hong Kong on May 1st POSTERS
In the face of brutal political repression, our sisters and brothers in Hong Kong and Myanmar cannot mobilize and rally freely on May 1st, 2021, International Workers' Day. We ask all unions to include their voices and demands in your rallies. Our sisters and brothers...
Trade unionists at Coca-Cola Philippines are being red-tagged. Why is the company failing to uphold freedom of association?
"Red-tagging" in the Philippines is an orchestrated campaign of fear and intimidation that denies workers their fundamental human right to freedom of association. It not only forces workers to give up their right to freely choose their union. It creates the conditions...
Fear in the Philippines. How “red tagging” by the police & military also kills the right to freedom of association
When President Duterte called on the police and armed forces to "kill them all" in March 2021, he was referring to anyone suspected of being involved in the armed communist insurgency. Like his war on drugs that cost the lives of anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 people...
Protesters are gunned down in the streets of Yangon. But Accor’s luxury Novotel Yangon Max is declared “ALL Safe”
Accor's luxury five star Novotel Yangon Max continues to host events and welcome guests, with occupancy well over 50%, even as military forces follow the order to "annihilate" all protesters and hunt down all those who joined the Civil Disobedience Movement. This...
missing the 6th point in Myanmar: all political detainees & human rights defenders must be released!
The Five Point Consensus on Myanmar issued by the ASEAN Leaders' Meeting on 24 April 2021 could be an important step towards ending violent repression by the military junta in Myanmar. Just prior to the meeting the Indonesian government, which hosted the emergency...
On May 1 and June 4 we will not forget! we call for the immediate, unconditional release of Brother Lee Cheuk-yan
Throughout the IUF Asia/Pacific Region, our members are outraged by the imprisonment of Brother Lee Cheuk-yan, General Secretary of Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU). Brother Lee Cheuk-yan was charged for involvement in five "unauthorised" rallies in the...
Empowering women through unions in the COVID-19 era
There is no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis has had a much greater impact on women than men. The double burden of family responsibility increased with the closure of schools and Working From Home arrangements. Many women were already in precarious forms of...
the freedom of the people of Hong Kong on trial, solidarity expressed across the Asia/Pacific region
As the trial of Brother Lee Cheuk Yan, General Secretary of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU), and eight other democracy activists and human rights defenders began in Hong Kong this week, IUF members throughout the Asia-Pacific protested against this...
Dairy union in India defends the rights of precarious workers, wins secure jobs
In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Employees Union (SDDEU) in Baramati extended support for contract and casual workers, ensuring free PPE and financial support. Despite the challenges in the pandemic, the SDDEU also continued to negotiate...
Hotel unions in Nepal secure jobs despite tourism crisis
While the Nepal tourism industry faces a crisis in the ongoing global pandemic, trade unions in Nepal active in the hotel sector succeeded in defending the jobs and livelihoods of hotel and tourism workers. The active unions, including the IUF-affiliated Nepal...
Financing the coup: foreign companies that continued doing business with the military and its cronies financed this assault on freedom in Myanmar
Dozens of foreign companies, banks and commodities traders continued doing business with the military-owned companies and crony companies identified by the UN Human Rights Council in 2019 as being involved in crimes against humanity. Many accused these companies of doing nothing. But they did do something. They financed this coup.
Crown Company’s legal “victory” against workers is a loss for Maldives tourism
The 10-year legal battle to prevent reinstatement of the 22 unfairly dismissed union members was a significant political investment for Crown Company. The Supreme Court ruling on February 3, 2021, was a victory for a company determined to keep its resorts free from unions and to silence workers. But as the Maldives attempts to promote the safe recovery of tourism, the fear and silence of workers means that no one can guarantee the safety of these resorts. This questionable legal victory then puts the credibility and reputation of the whole Maldives tourism industry at risk.
Back to barracks! The Tatmadaw must withdraw from all political, civil and economic affairs and restore Myanmar’s path to democracy
The IUF Asia/Pacific condemns the military coup in Myanmar and supports the calls of the people of Myanmar to immediately and unconditionally release all detained political party leaders and elected representatives, journalists, writers and human rights defenders. The Tatmadaw [Myanmar military] must stand down from all elected government positions, withdraw from political and civilian affairs, and end their economic activities. End the coup! Back to barracks!
Behind Accor’s “Allsafe” label: unsafe workplaces and rights abuses in Indonesia
Workers in Accor properties in the Asia-Pacific are finding that the Allsafe protocols were developed without any consideration of working conditions, workload or workers’ safety. They experienced longer working hours on less pay; exposure to new, more toxic chemicals used as disinfectants in rooms and public areas; erratic shifts; and the reintroduction of the same unsafe work practices that existed before the pandemic. Accor Indonesia is also using this as an opportunity to further undermine trade union rights. By abusing workers’ rights and livelihoods in a pandemic and Accor Indonesia will expose guests to even greater risk when the hotel reopens for tourism.
The military coup in Myanmar is business as usual for Accor
While some foreign investors and transnational companies may be concerned about the military coup and its implcations for their business operations, stability and possibly even human rights, Accor will not share this concern. Having aligned itself with the military through Zaw Zaw’s Max Myanmar Group, it’s business as usual.
Making agricultural work a good job: 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.
Defending food security in India: why we must fight against the new farm laws and fight for farm workers’ rights
The new farm laws threaten to remove crop price support by states, which clearly threatens the income and livelihood of farmers. This must be opposed. But in doing so we cannot simply defend the status quo.
IUF Asia/Pacific and TEAM welcome the new Yellowfin Tuna Fishers Union in the Maldives
TEAM General Secretary, Mauroof Zakir, addresses the inauguration of the new union of Bodu Kanneli Masveringe Union (BKMU) The IUF Asia/Pacific and its affiliated union, Tourism Employees Association of the Maldives (TEAM) welcomed the formation of the first fisheries...
fighting for the right to freedom of association every day
We all recognize the importance of the right to freedom of association: the right to form and join trade unions of our own choosing without interference from employers or governments. Without this right we would not be members and leaders of our trade unions, we would...
Nestlé Malaysia workers declare, “respect our hard work!”
Protests by union members at Nestlé Malaysia, represented by the IUF-affiliated Food Industry Employees Union (FIEU), are continuing as management refuses to engage in good faith wage negotiations. Abandoning any commitment to bilateral collective bargaining...