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Underwear King Robert Ng Stole $5.9 Million from Low-Wage Workers 2024-03-23 [WRC]

UNI Thai Affiliates Commit to Boosting Organizing and Union Growth, Prepare to Host 6th UNI APRO Regional Conference 2024-03-20 [UNI]

Women workers call for protection from violence, discrimination 2024-03-08 [The Nation]

Thai unions advance campaign towards ratification of ILO Conventions 2024-03-06 [IndustriALL]

Workers hope for better pay in 2024 2024-01-05 [Benar News]

After Pocketing Workers’ Wages, Nike Supplier Paid Shareholders a Bonus 2023-11-04 [WRC]

Y-Tec violates workers' rights in Thailand 2023-10-25 [IndustriALL]

Thailand Workers demand Ratification of ILO Conventions 87 and 98 2023-10-21 [IndustriALL]

Thailand How Thai workers became integral to Israel's economy 2023-10-18 [Nikkei Asia]

Thailand Building organizing power in South East Asia 2023-09-19 [IndustriALL]

A Labor Strategy Beyond Elections 2023-05-16 [Asian Labour Review]

Unions urge government to ratify ILO Conventions 87 and 98 2023-04-15 [IndustriALL]

Myanmar Considered neither refugees nor economic migrants, Burmese workers in Thailand eke out a living in the shadows 2023-03-24 [Equal Times]

Winning workers’ rights to maternity protection in Thailand 2023-03-04 [IUF Asia/Pacific]

Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’ 2022-12-19 [The guardian]

UK Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’ 2022-12-19 [The Guardian]

Thailand Workers in Thailand who made F&F jeans for Tesco ‘trapped in effective forced labour’ 2022-12-18 [The Guardian]

NXP Thailand must reinstate sacked workers 2022-12-15 [IndustriALL]

Call from CILT (IndustriALL Thailand) from Thailand to Monitor Union Busting in Honda Motor Supply Chain 2022-11-28 [CILT Official Facebook]

“Which Side Are You On?” Thailand’s anti-authoritarian youth challenge to the labour movement 2022-11-26 [Asian Labour Review]

Myanmar People’s Radio: a friend to Burmese migrant workers in Thailand 2022-11-26 [Asian Labour Review]

CNN criticised for mass shooting coverage 2022-10-13 [IFJ]

Police release watchlist with details of reporters and citizen journalists 2022-07-20 [IFJ]

Thai garment workers decry COVID arrests after rare labour win For more info 2022-07-14 [AlJazeera]

Thailand: Garment workers at former Victoria's Secret supplier secure $8 million severance pay win after 13-month campaign 2022-06-04 [Business and Human Rights Resource Centre]

Tidligere ansatte får erstatning fra undertøysgigant 2022-05-28 [Dagbladet/NTB]

USA Victoria's Secret agrees to finance $8.3 million settlement for laid-off Thai workers 2022-05-28 [Reuters]

Long-running garment worker dispute settled 2022-05-26 [Ecotextile]

13-month campaign leads to union win 2022-05-21 [IndustriALL]

Gig workers need unions to secure living 2022-05-06 [The Post]

Thailand Lingerie brands urged to pay 1,388 Thai workers US $7.4 million 2022-02-16 [Industriall]

Lingerie brands urged to pay 1,388 Thai workers US $7.4 million 2022-02-16 [IndustriALL]

Union protest results in criminal charges 2022-01-28 [IndustriALL]

Sex workers have long been disapproved of in Thailand. Now they are calling for their billion-dollar industry to be recognised 2021-11-12 [ABC]

Top Thai union leader ‘targeted' with jail for rail safety campaign 2021-09-21 [Guardian]

Unions sign off on text for worker rights at Bangkok airport but management must live up to promises 2021-08-21 [itf]

BWI condemns state harassment of Thai labour leaders 2021-08-17 [BWI]

Airport security workers win back their basic working rights 2021-08-14 [ITF]

New regulation curtails free speech 2021-07-30 [IFJ]

Thailand Hundreds of Cambodian workers return home as Thailand closes construction sites 2021-07-02 [BWI]

Fishers' Rights Network calls on Thai Government to enforce contract provisions 2021-07-01 [ITF]

BWI expresses concern over Thailand's militarist pandemic policy 2021-07-01 [BWI]

Censorship laws stifle criticism of government vaccine rollout 2021-06-22 [IFJ]

Myanmar Three Burmese journalists arrested in Chiang Mai 2021-05-11 [IFJ]

Global Labour rights activist demanding release on bail of all anti-establishment Ratsadon leaders indicted on lèse majesté charges 2021-05-02 [Thai PBS World]

Lodging of new appeal sparks renewed pledge for global solidarity for SRUT 13 2021-04-24 [ITF]

Bangkok's airport workers still waiting on rights 2021-03-24 [ITF]

Podcast: Winning Rights for Migrant Workers in COVID-19 For more info 2021-03-24 [Solidarity Center]

Bangkok airport workers protest attack on rights 2021-03-13 [ITF]

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