What FTUB does for Transnational Migrant Laborer?
We, FTUB believe that transnational migration is one of the non-traditional security aspects (NTSA), which is threatening international peace and security to this modern world. Both documented and undocumented migrants laborers from Burma have poured to less competitive labor market of Thailand, India, China and Bangladesh. Moreover, it goes to South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, West Europe and United State of America as well.
Some root-causes of labor migration from Burma are the SPDC regime's mismanagements on policies of politic, macroeconomic, social and human resource development and anti-poverty. Burma is the one of the highest migrant workers-exporting countries in S.E Asia. An interesting on Burma' interregional and transnational migration is, Forced Labor which is systematically used by military personnel of military junta of Burma.
To be able to help this vulnerable Burma's migrant workers, FTUB has established a task-force namely the Migrant Workers Affairs. The FTUB' Migrant Labor Affairs has been combating as follow agendas and issues:
Human Resource Development
- Educating Trade Unions Rights/ Migrant Workers Right and Human Rights
- Sharing some information of basic rule and regulation of Thailand to migrants
- Implementing capacity building and educational activities for migrant workers
- Giving labor rights and human rights awareness among the migrant labor community
- Advocating capacity building and human empowerment among migrant laborers.
A Labor Law Clinic
A legal assistance team was formulated by the Lawyers Council of Thailand (LCT) and the Federation of Trade Unions-Burma. FTUB is assisting Thai lawyers to prepare legal documents of migrants, preparing copies of workers’ documents and updating the prevailing situation to international organizations such as, ICFTU, ICFTU-APRO and ILO. (See- Cases on the Reports Chapter)
Tsunami Rescue Package
The Migrant Workers Affairs of the Federation of Trade Unions Burma (FTUB) sent a rapid assessment team to the areas devastated by the tsunami soon after and produced a rapid assessment report. The FTUB followed up on findings of the assessment by assisting the migrant workers with essential needs who were affected by the tsunami in some parts of the three different provinces with the assistance of International Labour Organization (ILO), ICFTU-APRO, Trade Unions Congress of United Kingdom (TUC), personal donations from FTUB's friends from Italy and the Help Without Frontiers an Italian NGO. (See- Rapid Assessment and other Tsunami Rescue Package Reports on the Reports Chapter.)
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Tin Tun Aung
Secretary
Migrant Workers Affairs
Federation of Trade Unions-Burma
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