Migrants find safe work
High unemployment and low wages have driven five million Myanmar citizens to seek work in other countries, many across the border in Thailand. Your donations have helped nearly 1500 of these young women avoid...
Tagged: Confederation of Trade Unions of Myanmar
Myanmar unions growing
When UnionAID was established in 2009 trade unions were illegal in Myanmar. Our friends in the Federation of Trade Unions of Burma (FTUB) like Min Lwin and Htwe Nge lived in exile on the...
Myanmar railway unions form Federation
With the numbers of railway union members reaching 2100, a national railway union federation was established this year in March. This brings together twelve regional unions from north to south in Myanmar. Union and...
Nurses’ Union established in Myanmar
Low salaries, long hours and poor working conditions in public hospitals are driving large numbers of nurses and midwives into the private sector, some even paying a fine to get out of public duties....