Yangon Chin is a somewhat inaccessible state occupied largely by ethnic Chin’s along the western and northern mountainous areas of Myanmar strategically located along the Indian and Chinese borders of the country. The state is geographically large, but its population is hardly 500,000, and perhaps significantly less given the number of Chin who have fled, …
Category: Organizing
Nothing Easy About Organizing Unions in Myanmar
Yangon Not surprisingly, the more people we visit, the more we peel the onion and come closer to understanding the full challenges for workers and their unions in organizing in Burma. Over the first three days of meetings for example when talking to labor sources the union density has fallen from 2% or roughly 250,000 members …
Higher Living Wages Somewhere, Maybe? $15 Per Hour, Unlikely!
Labor DayLittle Rock A couple of days ago there was an article in the Times that examined the call by some fast food workers through their publicity strike for $15 per hour as their minimum wage. The reporters wrote of experts and economists being “flown to Las Vegas” for urgent strategy sessions on how any …