<p>Over 2 years ago, a group of Thai workers went to work in Libya with CKG Company and other companies. These workers signed employment agreements with these companies as a result of assistance from employment brokers certified by the Thai Ministry of Labour. Related costs for this assistance ranged from 150, 000 to 200, 000 baht. However, once workers completed their 2 years work, the employing companies refused to send the workers back to Thailand in breach of the employment agreements. As a result, 151 Thai workers currently remain stranded in Libya.</p>

<p>7th October 2009 is World Day for Decent Work. On behalf of a network of labour organisations, and in the name of the Working Group to Promote Ratification of ILO C.87 and C.98 (consisting of Labour Congresses, Labour Federations, Area Based Labour Unions, the Thai Labour Solidarity Committee, the State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation and members of the Global Unions Federation (GUFs) in Thailand), we come out to demand that the Thai Government immediately ratify the International Labour Organisation&rsquo;s (ILO) Conventions 87 and 98 as a matter of the utmost urgency.</p>

<p>International trade union federations lend their support to the Thai labour movement&rsquo;s campaign to protect precarious workers and their demands for the ratification of fundamental International Labour Oraganisation (ILO) conventions numbers 87 and 98, on Freedom of Association and the Right to Organise and the Right to Collective Bargaining.</p> <div class="rteleft">&nbsp;</div>

<p>Defend Job Philippines together with the Triumph International workers in the Philippines strongly condemn the inhumane actions of the Thai police against our fellow workers of Triumph International in Thailand.</p>

<p>Police have issued arrest warrants for three Triumph labour union leaders who led members on a protest that blocked roads at Government House and Parliament.&nbsp;</p>

<p>A journey of a bra does not begin at the department store but in the hands of petite women who are 100% committed to their jobs. What they get in return for their love of their work comes in white envelopes.</p>

<p>On Aug 6, about 300 members of the Triumph Labour Union rallied at Government House to petition the Prime Minister and call on the government to intervene in their dispute with the company which has laid off 1,959 workers.</p>

<p>Triumph workers rallied at the Swiss Embassy in Bangkok, making demands through the embassy to Triumph International whose headquarters is located in Switzerland. &nbsp;After the embassy refused to come out to receive their petition, the workers read out the demands, burned the petition and left.</p>

<p>We, the workers of Triumph International Philippines under the leadership of Bagong Pagkakaisa ng mga Manggagawa sa Triumph International- Independent or New Unity of Workers in Triumph International strongly denounce and resist the injustice of Triumph International Philippines to us.</p>

<div> <div>1,003 factories have been shut down between 1 Jan and 7 May, putting 84,876 workers out work. &nbsp;Many more factories and workers are likely to meet the same fate, according to the Department of Labour Protection and Welfare.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div>

<p>The Asian Transnational Corporation Monitoring Network (ATNC) strongly condemns the closure of the Triumph International Philippines factory inside the FTI Complex in Taguig City and the nearby Star Performance Incorporated as well as the layoff of nearly 50% of the workforce in the Body Fashion Thailand (BFT), Triumph International's Thai subsidiary.&nbsp;</p> <p>(Signatures are being collected in support of the workers in an online petition:&nbsp;<a href="http://gopetition.com/online/29350.html">http://gopetition.com/online/29350.html</a>.)</p>

<p>On July 13, workers rallied at the office of the Board of Investment, saying that the Board&rsquo;s support for the investment of Body Fashion (Thailand) Co in Nakhon Sawan lost almost 2,000 of their jobs in Bang Phli, Samut Prakan.</p>