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Media / News / Rangsit and Area Labour Union Group (RLUG) / Solidarity Newsletters / Solidarity Summer 2019-2020 / Thailand
By using a wide range of thoughtful strategies, the Rangsit and Area Labour Union Group (RLUG) can boast significant successes in building the union and improving lives. Over the past year under the UnionAID...
In the stifling heat and noise, utensil makers in Madurai spend long days hammering designs onto pots. Many of these men have done this work for decades and risk accumulated hearing loss, respiratory problems...
Two new unions have been registered and 2076 new members have joined the National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) after only six months of this UnionAID funded project in Bangladesh. This is the successful outcome...
Editions / Media / News / Projects / Rangsit and Area Labour Union Group (RLUG) / Solidarity / Thailand / Winter 2019
After a workshop earlier this year about union organising through social media, younger workers are more interested in being involved in these activities, reports our Thai project partner, the Rangsit and Area Labour Union...
As a Dalit, Pancha was born with the duty of cremation work in her small township in Tamil Nadu, India. It is a tough job which she and her husband carryout with dignity.. They...
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...
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...
Since 2011 the focus of our work in India with the Tamil Nadu Labour Union (TNLU) has been on establishing co-operatives with Dalit and Tribal workers so they can gain independence from money lenders...
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...
Every weekday in the evening, another 88 girls and 55 boys sit down in four new education centres around Madurai slums and villages to do their homework. Over the past year these 143 children...
