Picture by courtesy of Homenet Thailand. CAW celebrated International Women’s Day together with the member, network, women human rights groups and women workers from Asia in Chiang Mai on March 8, 2010. (the picture below) ITF-Thai, SERC and other women groups marched from King Rama V monument to the Government House on the day of March 8 the [...]

More than 100 women representing trade unions from around the world are demanding improved rights for working women at the 54th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which began yesterday in New York. The delegation includes members from the International Trade Union Confederation, Public Services International, Education International, and UNI Global Union. [...]

It was an unusual gathering at Karachi’s Cantt railway station, where over 100 people from civil society organisations, intellectuals, political and trade union workers, and journalists had gathered for a peaceful cause. Sixty of those gathered, including more than a dozen women, were part of a Peace Caravan that left Karachi on February 13 for [...]

Trade union rights in Turkey were repeatedly violated in 2009. The current strike of TEKEL workers has now been running for over 70 days, following a snap decision by the government to close their workplaces. The striking workers and their families have left their homes, travelled to Ankara and have been pitched in tents in [...]

Former staff of swimwear and lingerie giant Triumph International have agreed to end their eight-month protest against their former employer at the Labour Ministry, Triumph labour union adviser Jitra Kotchadej says. About 200 former workers of Triumph have been camped out at the ministry in protest against their former employer’s lay-off scheme. They claim Body [...]

February 15, 2010 Bangkok There are 6 million Indonesian migrant workers according to 2009 data from Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration Republic of Indonesia and National Authority for the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers, (BNP2TKI), and 75% or 4,5 million of them are working as domestic workers in South East Asia, East Asia [...]

Dear Friends and Comrades, The Committee for Asian Women would like to send its deeply concerns regarding the illegal arrest and detention of more than 40 health workers in Bgy. Maybangkal Morong Rizal on February 06 2010, on suspicion of being members of the New People’s Army.  The arrested individuals are undertaking a training on [...]

Members of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) are vowing to fight as long as it takes to defeat the government’s heavy-handed, anti-union moves to break its independent union. Speaking at a brown-bag luncheon last week at the AFL-CIO in Washington, D.C., Humberto Montes de Oca, SME’s interior secretary, and union Health Secretary Pipino Cuevas [...]

Kim Young-hoon, the 42 year old former head of Korean Transport Workers’ Union (KTWU), has been selected as the new chairman of the Korea Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU).  Kim won the election by securing 376 votes of the total 723 votes that were cast (52 percent) at a regular KCTU convention meeting held at [...]

The strike by three thousand workers launched by the IUF-affiliated Food and Allied Workers’ Union (FAWU) on December 22 at SAB Miller’s ABI Soft Drinks Division has now entered its second month. The union is demanding a 9.5% wage increase, fair overtime payment for Saturday work and an end to the further use of labour [...]