Training on Advocacy for Domestic Workers–Indonesia

    The Committee for Asian Women and JALA-PRT, Yogyakarta-based domestic workers network will conduct a national training and consultation on the country’s “domestic workers are workers” campaign on 25-27 July 2009. The training aims to strengthen capacities of groups working towards labour standards protection and recognition for Indonesian domestic workers. It will bring together domestic workers’ unions, support NGOs, trade union representatives and labour support groups for a three-day intensive learning of advocacy skills and strategies from national and regional representatives. The event hopes to prepare Indonesian domestic worker leaders to campaign for national legislation and advocate internationally for an ILO Convention on Domestic Work.

Public Holidays in Thailand

CAW secretariat office will be closed for the Thai public holidays from 6-8 July 2009.

Most recent:

  • Triumph to Lay off Almost 2,000 Workers in Thailand
  • Back to School Blues: Rising Prices, Troubled Mothers
  • Notice on Ka Wilson’s Death

    • Formal Economy

    Triumph to Lay off Almost 2,000 Workers in Thailand
    An announcement yesterday that 1,930 workers at Body Fashion (Thailand) will be laid off prompted more than 1,000 workers to stage a protest. The company is a subsidiary of Triumph International (Thailand), a leading manufacturer of Triumph-brand lingerie and swimwear. In a statement, Body Fashion said the lay-offs were due to the global recession ...
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    43 views,·July 2nd, 2009

    Rights in Conflict and Suppression

    Ensure the Freedom of Movement in Post War Sri Lanka
    Press Release The government has announced that all restrictions on fishing in the northern seas have been removed. It has also stated that the A9 Highway that connects the Jaffna peninsula to the rest of the country would also be opened for commercial transportation.These two measures will help to restore normalcy in the day to day [...]...
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    21 views,·July 1st, 2009

    Migration and Labour

    Groups call on Malaysian Government to Protect FDWs
    As regional networks, foreign and local domestic workers associations, trade unions, non-governmental organisations and community based organisations working on issues related to migrant workers, we welcome the recent move by the Malaysian government to provide a mandatory paid day off for foreign domestic workers (FDW). As a major destination coun...
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    19 views,·July 1st, 2009

    Informal Economy

    Back to School Blues: Rising Prices, Troubled Mothers
    Nanay Caring, 30, wakes up at five in the morning everyday to prepare her goods. For 14 years now, she has been selling school supplies at Divisoria, where thousands of people come in search of the lowest prices. This summer, however, sales have not been quite good. And as the country continues to suffer from the [...]...
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    15 views,·July 2nd, 2009

    Trade and Labour

    Gender considerations usually absent from Trade Negotiations
    “The results are not just one way. There are cases where trade has improved the conditions of women, especially by creating new employment opportunities in the formal and informal sector. In other cases, trade liberalisation has had a negative impact by destroying the sectors where women work.” This is one of the assertions made at the [...]...
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    26 views,·June 29th, 2009

    Campaigns

    Wage Conference 2009
    29 April 2009 CAW and Thai Labour Solidarity Committee jointly organised a conference on Wage Security and Workers’ Rights in Rattanakossin-Royal Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand on the 29th of April 2009.  The conference raised discussion on wage security in the time of financial crisis, country wage profile and wage demands of labour groups in Thailand, India and Indonesia, and wage [...]...
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    288 views,·May 6th, 2009