| 24 Jun 11 | TMB board backs Vijit -- TMB Bank has not yet responded to a request from its labour union that Vijit Supinit resign as an independent director, saying he has not breached any law. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 23 Jun 11 | Five parties back plan to help workers -- Five political parties yesterday signed a joint agreement to back a 10-point proposal by the Thai Labour Solidarity Committee to improve labourers' living conditions. ( Bangkokpost ) |
| 22 Jun 11 | Labour shortage, not hike in wage, the bigger issue, says TDRI -- The country is not running out of a working population, but still faces a labour shortage, said Srawooth Paitoonpong, senior researcher at TDRI. ( The Nation ) |
| 21 Jun 11 | SERC Submits Petition to the ILO for Protection of Migrant Workers Rights in Thailand -- On June 13, 2011 Sawit Keawwan, General Secretary of the State Enterprise Workers Relations Confederation (SERC) submitted a petition to the representative of the ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR), against the failure of Government of Thailand to observe the Equality of Treatment (Accident Compensation) Convention 1925 (C-19). Thailand ratified this Convention in 1968 ( Laborstart ) |
| 20 Jun 11 | Wages in Bangkok set to rise soon -- The minimum daily wage in Bangkok stands at Bt215, and should be increased soon given that the rate of inflation is touching 3.3 per cent. ( The Nation ) |
| 03 Jun 11 | Panel to make decision on wage increase today -- Labour Minister Chalermchai Srion said yesterday that an increase was possible given the rising cost of living and an increase in the price of daily commodities. "These factors have been supplied to the wage committee for consideration." ( The Nation ) |
| 03 Jun 11 | Ranong home to illegal migrants -- Wanchai commented that the private agency survey result, which found Ranong to have 600 Burmese communities - a living quarter with 24 families up was considered a community - and 10 of such communities had 2,000-3,000 people, was quite contrary to reality of Ranong physical aspects and the recent immigrant workers registration's 49,000-worker headcount. To get clarity on this, he had 10 municipalities and 20 Tambon administrative organizations surveyed immigrant workers and their families in their jurisdictions, in order to find measures to control them. ( The Nation ) |
| 02 Jun 11 | Thailand: Reinstate KFC union activists now! -- Three union activists have been dismissed from their employment at KFC in Thailand after they established a union and sought to bargain a collective agreement with KFC management. The Thai ministry of labour approved the registration of the Cuisine and Services Thailand Workers Union after over 200 workers signed and submitted a proposal seeking to negotiate with the company to improve wages and working conditions. Shortly after this, Apantree Charoensak, Krit Suang-aranan and Siwaporn Somjit , who were active as union representatives were terminated without notice or due process. ( http://cms.iuf.org/?q=node/938 ) |
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