The ITUC Asia Pacific expresses deep concern over the labour law reform and gross violations of workers’ rights under the Covid-19 pandemic in India.   In many states in India the coronavirus crisis is being used as an excuse to suspe...

NO RCEP: Insubstantial Agreement without People, Decent Work, Planet and Sustainable Development for building forward better after COVID-19 The 10 ASEAN Member States and its 5 key partner countries – Australia, China, Japan, South Korea an...

Despite huge opposition from Indonesian workers and communities, the government and the house of representative (DPR-RI) passed the Omnibus Bill on Job Creation into law on 5 October 2020. The law will put the interests and demands of foreign inve...

Trade Unions and Employers Association signed a joint commitment in Jakarta on 6 August 2020 to protect safety and health, business sustainability and welfare of workers in the export-oriented garment/footwear sectors in Indonesia amid the COVID-1...

 Join Zoom Meeting https://ituc-csi-org.zoom.us/j/99982364401?pwd=K0lnLzdRL0xudDBEeUZXNzI5WjlWdz09 Meeting ID: 999 8236 4401Passcode: 207516 Exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the ITUC Global Rights Index 2020 names ...

 Rong Chhun, President of Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU) was taken away by police from his home in late evening of 31 July for allegedly inciting to commit felony. His arrest took place against the background of his recent trade unio...

Shoya Yoshida, ITUC-AP General Secretary, shared his thought about peace in particular with the young. He found similar words in the 1951 Novel lecture of Mr. Léon Jouhaux, a French and international trade union leader, to what he had heard f...

“After the pandemic: Visions for new economic and social systems" The unprecedented global health and economic crisis demonstrates failures of our economic, social and political system, in particular, deficits of decent work with social jus...

In solidarity with Indonesian workers, the ITUC and the ITUC-AP express its serious concerns to President Joko Widodo of Indonesia about the draft bill of an Omnibus Law on Job Creation. In its letter, the ITUC and the ITUC-AP highlight that t...

The Philippines government is on the verge of enacting Anti-Terror Bills after the House of Representative and the Senate recently passed the House Bill 6875 and Senate Bill 1083 to replace the Human Security Act of 2007.In its joint letter to Pre...