It remains unclear whether the factory workers among the detainees, who were dismissed after requesting a pay increase, will be able to return to their jobs Han Thit September 6, 2023 A group of workers and their supporters, who were arrested after demanding higher wages in the garment industry earlier

As cases of worker abuse at garment factories soar, H&M says it is 'deeply concerned' by the developments in Myanmar H&M is following up on 20 alleged instances of labour abuse at Myanmar garment factories that supply the world's second-largest fashion retailer, just weeks after top rival Zara

Two Burmese banks had accounts with Sonali Bank totaling U.S. $1.1 million in deposits. Bangladesh’s Sonali Bank has frozen accounts of two Myanmar state-owned banks due to U.S. sanctions against them, its chief executive officer said Wednesday. Confirmation of the action came after the United States

ဥရောပ သမဂ္ဂ (EU) က မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ဆောင်ရွက်နေတဲ့ MADE in Myanmar စီမံချက်ကို ရပ်ဆိုင်းဖို့ ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ အလုပ်သမားသမဂ္ဂများအဖွဲ့ချုပ် ‌(IndustriAll Global Union) က ဇူ

IUF ညီလာခံကြီးက အရေးကြီးသော ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက် အမှတ် (၁) အဖြစ် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဒီမိုကရေစီ ပြန်လည် ရရှိရေးနှင့် လူ့အခွင့်အရေး ကာကွယ်ရေး ဆိုင်ရာ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချ

The government of Indonesia joined more than 200 million workers worldwide in calling for the restoration of democracy in Myanmar. In an advocacy mission to Myanmar held on 19 July, Mahfud MD, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs of Indonesia joined the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), global

The  Military announced, "Arrested the instigators behind the protests in collaboration with Action Labor Rights, an organization declared illegal by the government". Employers and the Military clearly show that they will not accept anyone who will negotiate for wage increases. The announcement included : Upon learning that incitement was being carried

According to family members and close associates, the Military Council intends to initiate legal proceedings against the workers and those who aided them at the Hosheng Myanmar factory. The workers have alleged violations of their labour rights, and the trial is scheduled for 7th July. "They have been detained and

The US government is increasing pressure on the Myanmar military regime with additional sanctions on two state-owned banks, which will take effect on June 20th, according to a diplomatic source. The source said that the banks are the Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank and the Myanmar Investment and Commercial Bank. The

Side by side with the International Labour Conference’s (ILC) historic vote invoking Article 33 of its constitution on Belarus’ flagrant disregard of its workers’ rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining, BWI General Secretary Ambet Yuson and fellow global union leaders met with Myanmar National Unity Government (NUG)

According to sources close to the military council, Ma Thidar Win, the leader of the Sun Apparel Myanmar garment factory protest workers, has been arrested by the military council. Ma Thidar Win was arrested a day before the scheduled date to negotiate the demands. The sources also said that it