Session Report: Organizing & Building Union Power in Asia & Pacific 

During the 6th UNI Asia & Pacific  Regional Conference, over 600 leaders and activists gathered in Bangkok, to discuss how unions across the region had been building worker power through organizing. The organizing session highlighted unions’ key strategies, shared inspiring success stories, and presented a bold vision for the future. Read the full Report- https://bit.ly/3VRkcHg

 

Under the leadership of Regional Secretary Rajendra Acharya, UNI Asia & Pacific greatly expanded its organizing capacity across the region over the past five years, even during the COVID-19 pandemic. These efforts included the establishment of new organizing centres in South and Southeast Asia to provide comprehensive training and organizing support on AI/digitalisation and its impact on unions; helped thousands of workers secure their rights.

 

While we have many challenges around us, we also have much to celebrate, let me acknowledge the tremendous efforts and resilience shown by workers across Asia and the Pacific. From organizing in some of the world’s most difficult environments to advocating for fundamental rights, you all have shown what solidarity means.

 

  We never give up:

 

– We faced a pandemic and tremendous suffering, but we didn’t give up.

– We endured natural disasters and economic hardship, but we didn’t give up.

– We encountered anti-labour laws from many governments, but we didn’t give up.

– Even under military coups and authoritarian regimes, we kept fighting—and we will never give up.

 

 This is who we are as a movement: the largest organization of working people on earth.