1. east-asia and the pacific
precarious work
(workshop 2)
east-asia and the pacific
china, fiji, indonesia, malaysia, philippines, vietnam

2. precarious work
precarious jobs?
jobs that are:
INDECENT --without contracts; temporary workers/part time workers; no social security/protection; job order (public service); no union; absence of living wages; no consultation, etc.
e.g.
domestic work, informal fishing, commercial sex workers, child labor, informal workers, workers in garbage dumps, small-scale mining and quarrying, agency workers, agriculture workers, and others

3. union initiatives on precarious job? (and success story)
precarious work
union initiatives on precarious job? (and success story)
Organizing; Education, training and capacity-building; legislative/policy advocacy; training for work scholarship program (philippines); collective bargaining; Others
success(?):
ratification of core conventions --we will work harder, swifter, faster, and higher to get there
adoption of domestic work convention
new laws strengthening FoA and CB, and renewed union effort to amend prevailing anti-union laws
new

4. C.L.S. FOA/CB Forced Labour Discrimination Child Labour Conv. 87
FOA/CB
Forced Labour
Discrimination
Child Labour
Country
Conv. 87
Conv. 98
Conv. 29
Conv. 105
Conv. 100
Conv. 111
Conv. 138
Conv. 182
Brunei
2008
Cambodia
1999
1969
2006
Indonesia
1998
1957
1950
1958
2000
Lao
1964
2005
Malaysia
1961
den.
1997
Myanmar
1955
Philippines
1953
1960
Singapore
1965
2002
2001
Thailand
2004
Viet Nam
  2007
2003
China
1990
 2006
1999
2002
Fiji
 2002
1974
  1974
 1974
2003

5. rights in labour law for contract-casual/agency workers?
precarious work
rights in labour law for contract-casual/agency workers?
government-mandated fringe benefits
benefits same with regular employees
e.g. social security, medical/health care, etc.
--(but there are challenges)
Union membership elligibility on first day of employment
--(philippines, not perfect in practice)
Minimum wages
--(compliance, a big challenge)
others

6. union responses to employment flexibilty
precarious work
union responses to employment flexibilty
3 things:
ORGANIZE,
ORGANIZE

7. union responses to employment flexibilty
precarious work
union responses to employment flexibilty
we also:
Filed bills in the legislature for security of employment 90/10 (tucp);
collective advocacy for implementation of decent work (DWCP), equal work/equal pay principle, etc.;
labor law revision/review to improve protection mechanisms for all workers, including workers in precarious employment;
international solidarity actions (can you name some? )
others

8. east-asia and the pacific
precarious work
east-asia and the pacific
Orkun!
china, fiji, indonesia, malaysia, philippines, vietnam