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Solidarity Action for
The military coups exacerbate business continuity and decent work efforts at multinational companies and supply chains. Timely to create an instrument to save Myanmar. The existence of multinational companies with an increase in supply chain companies with all the consequences of their operations has become a dilemma for the labor movement for the last 10 years, especially in Asia.
The hit of the Covid-19 pandemic has yet to be resolved, it increasingly has an impact on labor for business continuity as well as the calm and comfort of working for workers in multinational companies, especially those who work in supply chains due to protection that is widely discriminated against, prone to violations and weak in regulatory coverage that places it different from workers in the parent company.
In Myanmar, the follow-up blows have further aggravated their situation with the military coup currently in power in the country. Currently, many companies cannot operate normally, even if they are closed, it is not clear that workers lose their jobs. Most companies, pressure or voluntary, are under military control and working conditions are extremely uncomfortable.
All parties should be responsible for this situation, including multinational companies and their supply chains, should take responsibility for workers.
To that end, our network of trade unions that organizes workers in multinational companies and supply chains across nations asks corporate owners to:
- Garranty the freedom of association and rights to bargain in MNCs and supply chain.
- Ensure job security during the period of military rule in Myanmar, ensure the company has a survival scheme and even if it takes a temporary closure, it still ensures that workers work when the company operates again in Myanmar.
- Do not cooperate with the military in industrial relations and refuse military intervention in industrial relations.
- Impose targeted economic sanctions and financial penalties and restrictions on the junta leadership and businesses that are owned and controlled by the Myanmar military.
- Prioritizing social dialogue in every work problem, including finding common solutions during and after the military junta ends.
- Providing support to Impose a comprehensive and global arms embargo on Myanmar.
