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    Tagged: labour rights

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Thai PM hears Burmese migrant workers’ concerns

    Surachai told DVB that migrant fishermen are frequently threatened by Thai authorities and bosses if they raise their concerns.

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    In Burma, garment industry booms — and labour unions pay the price

    Discrimination against workers standing up for their rights in Burma’s garment industry was highlighted this month after a union leader was fired at a factory supplying fashion brand H&M.

    Labour Issues Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Bangkok factory boss gives in to Burmese workers’ demands

    A factory boss has agreed to compensate Burmese workers at a motorcycle helmet factory in Bangkok after the migrants staged a one-day strike.

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    Business Labour Issues Lead Story News

    Labour rights reforms and impatient unions a challenge for NLD

    Burma’s growing industrial workforce is becoming increasingly unionised and assertive.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Social media raises migrants’ awareness of rights

    A Facebook post that alerted a group of Burmese migrants to their own exploitation has triggered a landmark case on the rights of foreign workers in Thailand.

    Human Rights Labour Issues Lead Story News

    Lack of rights leaves housemaids open to abuses

    Thousands of girls from poor families across Burma work as maids for wealthier households, and often face gruelling working hours and abuse.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Thailand claims progress in effort to end sea slavery

    Thai police say a crackdown on human traffickers has led to the dismantling of thirty five criminal rings supplying slaves to fishing boats.

    Labour Issues Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Burmese exploited in Thai tourism sector: report

    Three laundry staff said they worked up to 19 hours a day during the peak tourism season with only two days off a month. Another reported working 16-hour shifts with no time off.

    Land Lead Story News

    Veteran activist detained on old charge

    Labour activist Su Su Nway has again been arrested by authorities, this time in Mandalay, for organising a land grab protest without police permission.

    Human Rights Labour Issues Lead Story News Protest

    Han Jen hunger strikers demand fair conditions

    Leaders of a mass strike at the Han Jen garment factory have continued talks with factory bosses, continuing to lobby for the demands of picketing workers.

    Land Lead Story News Protest

    Farmers right’s activist jailed

    Farmer’s rights advocate Su Su Nway has been jailed in Pegu Division after being charged with trespassing.

    Business Labour Issues Lead Story News

    International brands support minimum wage, say watchdogs

    Ethical Trading Initiative, Fair Labor Association say they are backed by 17 international manufacturers, including Adidas, Gap, Tesco, H&M and Patagonia.

    Interview: DVB speaks to Steve Marshall, ILO video

    Interview Lead Story News Video

    Interview: DVB speaks to Steve Marshall, ILO

    DVB sat down with ILO country liaison officer Steve Marshall to discuss how five years of political and economic reforms have touched Burma’s working class.

    Business Economy Lead Story News

    Thein Sein addresses minimum wage concerns

    President notes that if wages are too high, it will affect production costs and foreign investment, but if too low then workers will take to the streets.

    Labour Issues Lead Story News Rangoon

    Workers’ rally in Hlaing Tharyar marks May Day

    Around 500 workers from the factories of Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone in the outskirts of Rangoon held a rally in the city on International Workers’ Day.

    Lead Story News

    Workers, journalists detained in Shwepyithar protest

    Striking employees and journalists apprehended by police in continued Rangoon industrial action.

    Labour Issues Lead Story News

    Minimum wage talks ongoing

    Officials and labour representatives pushed to establish minimum wage figure within two months.

    Law Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    First defamation charges against Andy Hall dismissed

    The first of four defamation charges brought against British activist Andy Hall by Thailand’s Natural Fruit Company was dismissed by a Bangkok court on Wednesday due to a legal technicality.

    Business Lead Story News

    Labour Ministry orders Korean footwear firm to pay compensation

    Burma’s Deputy Labour Minister Htin Aung has announced that the now defunct Master Sports footwear factory is obliged to pay severance packages and outstanding salaries to more than 700 laid-off workers.

    Labour Issues Lead Story News

    20 injured in clash with police at closed Korean factory

    About 20 former employees of the now defunct Master Sports footwear factory were injured during a standoff with police after they held an official captive at the facility on Tuesday.

    Lead Story News

    British activist’s defamation trial begins in Bangkok

    A potentially precedent-setting trial began on Tuesday in Bangkok, as British activist Andy Hall faced the first of four libel charges against him for his research about a Thai company’s alleged abuse of migrant labourers, the majority of whom are Burmese

    Business Lead Story News

    Burma’s industrial relations at a crossroads

    Industrial relations for the garment sector is at a crossroads, with representatives from unions and factories agreeing that both sides need more education and willingness to negotiate in order to fuel Burma’s burgeoning industry.

    Business Lead Story News

    Gap’s report on supplier factories detail problems

    The US Embassy of Burma released a report on Thursday voluntarily submitted by US retailer Gap Inc. detailing the compliance issues found in their two factories initially and the improvements made.

    Labour Issues Lead Story News

    Court orders S Korean factory to pay dismissed workers

    South Korean shoe manufacturer Master Sports has been ordered by a Rangoon court to compensate more than 750 factory workers who were suddenly laid off in June.

    DVB Debate: Protecting Burma’s migrants video

    DVB Debate Lead Story News Video

    DVB Debate: Protecting Burma’s migrants

    Panellists on DVB Debate discuss how to protect the millions of migrant labourers who leave Burma in search of work.

    Labour Issues Lead Story News

    Master Sports employees say they were coerced to give up severance

    Former employees of a South Korean footwear factory said on Thursday that they were coerced into signing predatory agreements relinquishing severance pay.

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    Bullet Points: the news for Friday 18 July is brought to you by Angus Watson.

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    Bullet Points: bringing you the news for Thursday 17 July.

    Mae Sot migrants demand labour rights video

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News Video

    Mae Sot migrants demand labour rights

    Burmese migrant workers in a garment factory in northern Thailand’s Mae Sot are striking over unpaid wages and long working hours.

    ASEAN on the move video

    ASEAN Lead Story News Politics Video

    ASEAN on the move

    With ASEAN countries pledging to unite as a single regional market in 2015, Asia Calling brought together leaders from their fields across the region to discuss whether the union will benefit the people living in ASEAN.

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