Motion
- Motion title
- Support of Burmese Trade Unions
- Session
- 2007-2008
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2008
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 21
- Motion text
Congress recognises that Burma/Myanmar is one of the most oppressed countries in the world, where massive human rights abuses take place regularly and membership of a free trade union can be punishable by death.
Congress welcomes the establishment of recently formed trade unions in Burma and among the refugee and migrant workers' communities along the Thai/Burmese border, particularly the Karen Education Workers' Union.
Congress endorses the work of these unions in campaigning for social justice and asserts that the UCU should use its position in the international community of free trade unions to support the Karen unions by:
1. Making Aung Sang Suu Kyi an honorary member.
2. Affiliate to Burma Campaign UK.
3. Put pressure on TOTAL Oil, one of the biggest foreign investors in Burma, to stop supporting the illegitimate military rulers of Burma.
4. Encourage local councils to accept refugees from refugee camps through the Gateway Councils” scheme.
- Proposing body
- City of Sunderland College
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2008/C/05-28/030/21