Dear friends,

TLC and the Thai Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation organized a meeting on the MFA Phaseout: what is our demands?" on 29 May 2005. The meeting was joined by 5 women workers and orgnanizers from Cambodia and May Wong from AMRC. Below is the news article report from the meeting.

In solidarity,

Lek....



‘300,000 textile, garment jobs at risk’

Pravit Rojanaphruk
30 May 05
The Nation

Unionists claim that the abolition of international import quotas for textiles and garments and the implementation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) trade initiatives could result in layoffs for 300,000 of the one million Thai textile and garment workers.

There are about 2,300 textile and garment factories in Thailand, but experts believe the number will eventually fall to 1,500.

“The workers are almost unable to bear the situation,” said Premwadee Chaijantha, a leading textile union member who has been working for 14 years in the industry and earns Bt207 a day.  More detial: http://thailabour.org/news/05053002.html

Junya Lek Yimprasert
Thai Labour Campaign
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