Tai Yi workers form unofficial union

6 March 2012

New Delhi (Mizzima) – Workers at the Tai Yi footwear factory in Rangoon 

Region formed an unofficial trade union on Sunday. Women workers make 

up the majority of the 21-member executive committee, said labour 

adviser Su Su Nway, who helped the workers form the trade group. 

She said the unofficial trade group would continue to represent workers 

in negotiations with the factory management.

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Burma’s natural gas export earnings jump

6 March 2012
(Mizzima) – Burma’s budget revenues took a big jump in 2011, with natural 

gas exports earning US$ 2.94 billion in the first 11 months of the fiscal year 

2011-12, up about $424.7 million dollars from 2010-11, according to 

local media reports.

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‘Burma sanctions must stay’: trade unions

6 March 2012

Burma must take significant steps to end human rights abuses, 

especially forced labour, before the EU can consider easing further 

sanctions against Burma, a leading British union body has warned.

Free and fair elections on 1 April are not enough to warrant a 

significant revision of the EU sanctions policy against Burma, the 

General Secretary of the Trade Union Confederation (TUC) said 

in a letter to UK Foreign Minister William Hague.

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