Thai girls’s labour teams marched by the streets of Bangkok to Authorities Home at this time, to submit their 11 calls for to the federal government on Worldwide Girls’s Day.
Underneath the slogan “Resistance towards Girls’s Labour Oppression Capitalism” [SIC], the teams, led by the Thai Labour Solidarity Committee (TLSC), repeated their earlier demand for Thailand to recognise a number of Worldwide Labour Organisation (ILO) conventions, resembling Conference 183 masking maternal rights, Conference 190 concerning the eradication of violence and harassment in workplaces and Conventions 87 and 98 concerning freedom of affiliation, safety of the proper to assemble and the proper to assemble for negotiations.
The teams additionally issued new calls for, which embody recognition of the individuals’s model of the draft Clear Air invoice, recognition of ILO Conference 155 on well being and security within the office, the flexibility for migrant staff to use for work permits and protections for political refugees.
Labour unions from Rangsit and close by areas additionally marched to Authorities Home, to current their six calls for, together with 180-days paid maternal go away, at the least 30-days paid go away for spouses to assist increase their new-born infants, revocation of legal guidelines and practices that are discriminatory to feminine labour and members of the LGBTQ neighborhood, such because the anti-prostitution act, and the passing of the wedding equality invoice.
Moreover, they demand that the federal government and employers permit feminine staff to take at the least two days off work when they’re menstruating and a number of days of go away for contraception companies and being pregnant checks.
