ILO’s Global Wage Report 2010/2011 shows country’s average minimum wage is only $58. The minimum wage in Bangladesh is the lowest among all Asian countries, shows the International Labour Organisation’s Global Wage Report 2010/2011 released on December 15.  The United Nations’ labour wing that compiled data of 115 countries and territories said the overall worldwide [...]

HONG KONG — Hong Kong on Nov 10 set the city’s first minimum wage at 3.60 US dollars an hour, prompting anger from labour groups which criticised it as too low to make ends meet in the glitzy financial hub. The government is aiming to usher in a base wage of 28 Hong Kong dollars [...]

While workers of a garment sweatshop* based in Gurgaon (India) engage with their employer to get justice, their families will soon go without food and await eviction from their homes! 110 workers of the Viva Global Factory are sitting at the factory gate, day and night, most of them since the 25th of August 2010. [...]

More areas, more workers and more signature! 21.4.2010 Day 4 – Nerkundram Jakman Exports Private Limited is located on the main highway, about 2 kms from Chennai. The company employs more than 400 workers, mostly women from the areas around the factory and nearby areas.  GAFWU has been meeting workers in Nerkundrum and in Thirverkadu, [...]

The Committee for Asian Women held a conference on “Decent Work Decent Wage: Working Ourselves out of Poverty” on 28th April, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand.  About forty participants from the workers unions including Try Arm factory workers; CAW member groups in Thailand – Thai labour Solidarity Committee, Thai Labour Campaign, Friends of Women, Homenet, Metropolitan [...]

Labor activists and union leaders in Asia have joined forces to campaign for wage rises for workers in the region’s garment industry. The umbrella organisation, Asia Floor Wage, says garment workers are routinely paid too little to afford the cost of living in their home countries. And the campaign to get workers a fair minimum [...]

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 [...]

Wages for workers, especially low-skilled and informal workers, have been eroded due to the financial crisis. The financial crisis is linked to the hike in fuel and food prices which further affect jobs and devalue wages. Working class families, migrant workers, informal sector workers feel the pinch most. Millions of workers have been retrenched with [...]

Campaign for Domestic Workers There are more than 100 million domestic workers worldwide. They are also known as ‘servants’, ‘domestic helpers’, ‘nannies’, ‘cooks’, ‘housekeepers’, ‘cleaners’, among other names. They work more than 10 hours a day in poor or slavelike conditions; most are abused, underpaid, underfed and overworked. They have no opportunities to study or [...]

Committee for Asian Women demands Asian governments and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to recognise domestic workers as workers and legislate protection for domestic workers’ labour rights. The contribution of domestic workers to the economy and development of their sending countries is unnegligible. However, their rights as workers have not been recognised. A research by [...]