Diretriz de Mianmar sobre Liberdade Sindical (FOA)

Seção 1. Direito à liberdade de associação 1. O empregador deve respeitar o direito dos trabalhadores de formar e ingressar em sindicatos nas dependências da empresa. uma. Isso inclui que ...

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Mianmar: Trabalhadores do vestuário, fornecedores e marcas ACT concordam com as Diretrizes da Liberdade de Associação

Após oito meses de negociações, as fábricas que produzem para as marcas ACT em Mianmar concordaram com uma Diretriz de Liberdade de Associação de Mianmar (FoA) com a Federação dos Trabalhadores Industriais de Mianmar, afiliada da IndustriALL…

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Sourcing Dynamics, Workers’ Rights, and Inequality in Garment Global Supply Chains in India

This report examines the garment export business in India. While the business has seen rapid growth, the incomes and development of the workers have been disproportionately less. Factors such as …

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Australia: The Ensuring Integrity Bill is about one thing: Curtailing union power

The amendments proposed by the Ensuring Integrity Bill are in direct violation of Australia’s labour and human rights obligations under international law, Anthony Forsyth writes. Recently, the Senate Committee issued …

When ‘business as usual’ costs lives: workers in Pakistan call for a binding safety agreement

In Karachi, Pakistan, 11 September 2012 is ingrained into people’s minds as the day on which over 250 people did not return home to their families after a long day …

Warning over Cambodia’s garment workers as EU tariff threat looms

Tens of thousands of garment workers in Cambodia could face exploitation if proposed EU trade sanctions cause major fashion brands to downsize there, labour rights activists have warned. The garment …

Egregious Worker Rights Violations Cause Thailand to Lose Trade Benefits

On Friday, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced it will withdraw preferential tariffs for many imports from Thailand due to egregious, ongoing worker rights violations in the country. As highlighted …

Mauritius: THE WORKERS’ RIGHTS BILL (No. XXIV of 2019)

The object of this Bill is to repeal the Employment Rights Act and replace it by a modern and comprehensive legislative framework with a view to addressing the shortcomings of …

Informal workers: an untapped asset for Asia’s unions

In the Global North, changes in the organisation of work and employer strategy have rendered existing unions less powerful and put unionism out of reach for large groups of workers. …

$15 Billion: What South Asian Workers Have Paid in Bribes for Gulf Jobs

This February, 51-year-old Bhim Upadhyaya (name changed), a farmer from the Chitwan district in Nepal, paid a Kathmandu-based recruitment agency for a job as a truck driver in Doha, Qatar. …

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