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 …
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The Challenges of Building a Labor & Political Movement in Exile and on the Ground
Yangon Dr. Thaung Htun had been the head of the foreign section of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front. When all hell broke loose he fled along with other student leaders only to return about 25 years later after the country removed front leaders from the blacklist. He had formed a nonprofit in the US …
Is FDI and Foreign Tourism Already Passing Myanmar?
Yangon The Organizers’ Forum delegation started making its way, bleary eyed but bushy tailed across the world from the US and Canada via Taipei, Doha, Tokyo, and Hong Kong to visit with people and groups getting a sense of the transition of Myanmar (Burma) from a closed country towards more open elections and an opening …