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By Fahmi Panimbang

Background

Why This Is Important

Workers in Trexta Company in Turkey are forced to work long hours, without sufficient health and safety measures and workers can not get their legal right of severance pay. Between August and 12 November 2011 members and on 15 February 2012, 3 union members were dismissed because of their union work and membership. Other workers have been known to receive warnings by management not to join the union.

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為嚮應全球行動的呼籲，我們和多家工會和勞工組織會在明天（即2014年1月10日）前往柬埔寨總領事館抗議該國政府暴力鎮壓近

In many Asian societies, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is generally understood as being no more than corporate-run community development projects to compensate for social and economic injustices. Most of such projects, like constructing schools and health care centres, have been effectively hegemonic, providing strong legitimacy and extensive license to corporations to sustain the exploitation of the human and natural resources in many countries.

CSR Research Paper Series No 1

By Elaine Sio-ieng Hui

CSR Research Paper Series No 2

By Wol-san Liem

The Research Institute for Alternative Workers Movements, South Korea

CSR Research Paper Series No 3

By Surendra Pratap, Centre for Workers Education, India

Abstract

Sanda Kan Industrial Ltd is a company owned by the Hong Kong based Kadar Group. In Sanda Kan, there are over one thousand employees and it produces train models for famous international toy brands, including Tomy and Microace in Japan, Hornby in Germany and Bii in the US.

This is a joint statement on universial social security from the participants of “Sub regional workshop on Movement Building towards Social Security for All” consisting of 17 labour organizations, trade unions from Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam

A Chinese version of the labour law review is now avaliable for download as a whole book in a single file.

A training manual setting out case studies of organizing, power mapping and simple documentation for organizers

This simple manual is compilation of organizing handouts intended to be used by organizers

The map presents case studies from various countries in Asia on strategy of organizing informal workers and collective bargaining. The collective bargaining here refers to a process wherein the informal workers are able to constitute some form of political power. This includes a process of creating and recreating social solidarity among workers from various and diverse sectors, creating representational space and identifying targets for collective bargaining. Most of the case studies presented here are based on Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC) work with various partners in Asia.

Regional initiatives on collective bargaining and organizing strategy is a platform sharing initiated by Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC)  for groups in Asia to exchange experiences and skills in organizing and designing the strategy of collective bargaining. Brief summary of this sharing will be regularly updated here :Google Map on Collective Bargaining in Asia

Dear friends,

Asia Monitor Resource Centre supports Hong Kong civil society's struggle for genuine universal suffrage and we stand by their demands. We strongly condemn the use of excessive violence by the police on the peaceful protesters on September 28, 2014.

The Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions (HKCTU) has called for international support of the democracy movement in Hong Kong.

Recognising that economies in Asia are developing very fast, there is a considerably widening gap in terms of income as indicated by the Gini coefficients per country. For example, in most of the countries including Laos and Vietnam the income gap has been widening while the economy grows. Aside from increasing informalisation of jobs, there are also other indicators indicating that the labor situation has not improved in the last decade. It is true that poverty in Asia is decreasing but relative poverty has been increasing which means that the income gap in society has become more serious. There are more self-employed and own account workers and more women than men in these categories. The situation of women is relatively worse than men in the informal economy because they have no voice and visibility particularly in   decision making processes.  Aside from increasing precarious work, the marginalised informal workers also suffer from privatisation of public goods. Increasing occupational risks comprise another difficulty faced by informal workers.