ATUC Youth Rally 2015

The ASEAN Trade Union Council hosted the first ATUC Youth Rally and Dissemination Forum on Protecting Migrant Workers through Trade Union Agreements in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 3-5 September 2015, with the participation of 200 young workers/delegates and principal officers from 16 affiliate national labour centers, from eight (8) ASEAN member states, including observers and resource persons from the International Labour Organization (ILO) ACTRAV, ILO ASEAN Triangle Project (ATP), the International Trade Union Confederation Asia Pacific, and the ASEAN Secretariat.

The Youth Rally engaged the active participation of the youth delegates in the collective analysis and appreciation of the current state of young workers, labour market realities, decent work, migration, the labour movement, and social media through structured learning exercises, workshops, group discussion, games, and other fun activities. The Youth Rally event also discussed and shared the preliminary results of a research study on protecting migrant workers through trade union agreements, and considered ATUC position paper and framework for the role of trade unions in ASEAN integration and labor migration.

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