2013 Nov 3 Sunday Activity at Hlaing TaYar Office in Yangon

SOLIDAR Silver Rose Award Winners 2013

SOLIDAR Silver Rose Award Winners 2013

Come and meet our extraordinary winners…

 Mamadú Sissé from Islamic Community of Tapada das Mercês and Mem Martins

This community association does extraordinary work to integrate Islamic people coming mainly from Western Africa into the territory of Tapada das Mercês in Portugal. It supports over 400 families by carrying out social and cultural activities such as after school activities for children, Portuguese lessons and trainings to develop personal, professional and social competences. acitm.wordpress.com

Grainne O’Toole from Migrants Rights Centre Ireland and Mohammad Younis, Migrant Leader

Migrants Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI) works for justice, empowerment and equality for migrants and their families in Ireland. Mohammad Younis, a Pakistani national, became an MRCI migrant leader after experiencing exploitation in the workplace. Despite the risks he faced in speaking out as an undocumented worker, Mohammad Younis courageously campaigns to ensure justice and rights for all migrant workers in Ireland. mrci.ie

U Maung Maung from Federation of Trade Unions-Myanmar

 For over 20 years, Maung Maung has played an essential role in the survival – and now growth – of the trade union movement in Myanmar. In 2012, Maung Maung was in direct negotiations with the government which paved the return of the Federation of Trade Unions-Myanmar (FTUM) to Myanmar (from exile in Thailand). Now, there are laws in place providing a legal framework for trade union activity in Myanmar.

Guatemalan Indigenous Ixil Communities represented by Center for Human Rights Legal Action

The Center for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH) has been a driving force in working for justice to be done and the truth to come out regarding the terrible abuses that the Guatemalan people faced during the internal armed conflict. Starting in 1960, it lasted 36 years and caused more than 200,000 deaths and disappearances of civilians according to the UN. Notably, CALDH has supported the Ixil communities in pressing charges against former General Efrain Rios Montt (in power from 1982-83) for genocide and crimes against humanity. caldh.org

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

 Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett are advocating to reduce income inequality in order to improve the quality of life. Through analysis and dissemination of the latest research and robust evidence-based arguments (notably with the book “The Spirit Level”) associating various issues such as health issues, crime and teenage problems with social justice, they conclude that the less the differences between poor and rich, the greater the benefits for the entire society. equalitytrust.org.uk

Register your attendance If you have not done so yet, register your attendance at this year’s Silver Rose Awards ceremony taking place in the European Parliament (room ASP 3G3) on 16 October from 6.30-8pm, followed by a reception.

 Sharing Experiences on trainings in Japan and Singapore

RENGO-CHIBA visit to FTUM office 
 The Secretary of the Trade Union Rights and Human Rights department, women committee's members and Lawyer from FTUM had meeting with the delegation of Japanese Trade Union Confederation (RENGO)-Chiba on 11th Sep, 2013. The director and Senior program officer of the ITUC Myanmar Office were also in the meeting. Solidarity forever.

RENGO-CHIBA visit to Sakura Garment Factory

The delegation of the Japaneses Trade Union Confederation (CHIBA) visited to the Sakura Garment Factory in Hlaing Thar Yar Industrial Zone, Yangon, Myanmar.The delegation also met with Sakura Garment Workers Union's executives committee.

Myanmar Trade Union Leaders in Youth Leadership Course (28-Aug - 12-Sep, 2013)

Myanmar trade union leaders to receive  training in Japan

Myanmar Trade Union Leaders to receive training in Japan

2-Sep-13Ten leaders of Federation of Trade Unions of
 Myanmar left for Japan to attend Youth Leadership
Course in Japan on 1-7 Sep, General
Secretary U Maung Maung said ,
The course by Japan International
 Labour Assistance Foundation .
The course will cover activities of labour
unions, labour laws, collaborative dispute
settlement and information sharing, according
to Secretary of FTUM Daw Khaing Zar Aung.
The trainees are from labour unions of
Myanmar Locomotive Shed, agriculture,
Industrial zones and transportation sectors.
Myanmar has 197 labour unions with
16041 members. The FTUM has become
a full- fledged members of International
Trade Union Council. (New Light of Myanmar)

            MMAL- Ye Khaung, Myat Thanda Maung

FTUM Organizer Training (Course 2) - Two days training

All participants have to submitte Individual 
Action Plan (IAP) for two months in the 
Organizer Training (4 days training - Course 1). 
Organizer Training (course 2) is for evaluation 
on implementation of their IAP. Some were succeed, 
some were not succeed. However they finished some 
organizing activities. We discussed Strengths, 
Weaknesses, Oppotunities and Treats which
 are the reasons for successful and unsuccessful.
 FTUM is training them to be good organizers.

FTUM debriefing on 2013 ILC and lifting of all sanctions

Work through the ILO mechanism (1992-2012) to achieve changes on workers rights in Myanmar. One hundred and twenty three unions from various sectors (Agriculture, Industrial, Transport, Building and Wood) around 300 hunderd people from Yangon, Mandalay, Bago, Ayarwaddy, Sagaing, Shan state and Mon state were participated.

 

Two days training for MMTU (18-19th, June), Joint program of ITUC, FTUM and MMTU

1998 Fourced labour witnesses and the FTUB team at the ILO commission of Inquirty on Forced labour in Burma

Report of the selection committee