Asian Labour Update

Sinapan Samydorai

The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is moving forward in their regional economic integration by 2015. The regional integration includes setting up regional social protection for all migrant workers and labour standards recognizing migrant workers as an integral part of labour who need social security. The migration of workers and their families, including low and unskilled workers, many of whom are undocumented, needs more serious consideration within the national and portal regional  social protection schemes.

Issue No : 73  October - December 2009

Editorial: Security for who? Security for ALL

Issue No. 72 July - September 2009

By Doris Lee
 

Issue No. 72 July - September 2009

40,000 riot police descend on a factory that a group of striking auto workers have occupied, with helicopters, tear gas, water cannons, tazer guns. What is the crime taking place? ‘Obstruction of business’!

Who are the ‘criminals’, according to this government? The hundreds of workers who are exercising their right to strike – but a right which the government criminalizes when exercised, except under a very narrow set of conditions, so narrow that it virtually renders the right meaningless.