VNHRN organized Forum on Labor Rights in Vietnam

Demand of Union rights for Vietnamese Workers

 

VNHRN

5/11/2006

There was an unprecedented event in Vietnam since the end of 2005 until now as hundred thousand of workers across the country from the South to the North, staged strikes for wage raises, improvement over working conditions, and organization of independent labor union despite governmental interdiction.

The VN Human Right network has organized a roundtable on 11/5/2006 at the Coastline Community College in Little-Saigon (Westminster-California-US) in order to better understand the situation and search for effective ways to support the low-neck, small-mouthed workers back home. The roundtable assembled speakers and participants from a gamut of organizations from the VN Human Right Committee, the Movement for Human Right and Democracy for China, represented by the dissident Wei Jingsheng, representatives of the independent labor unions of the former VN Republic, the Vietnamese Laity Movement in the Diaspora, and human right activists as well as legal experts  with wide knowledge in the field of national and international labor.

Following one day of discussion, all participants unanimously showed their support for the movement for labor rights in Vietnam, including the rights to form independent and free unions as stipulated by the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, together with such international labor agreements as Convention 87, Convention 98, and Convention 135.

To materialize that support, the Seminar unanimously resolved:

 

1)    To cooperate with the unions in free nations such as the AFL/CIO and International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), with labor movements in countries where similar conditions exist like China and Myanmar, as well as with such human rights organizations as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

2)   To cooperate with organizations, groups, and compatriots everywhere in search for strong support for the movement of labor rights in Vietnam.

3)   To cooperate with human rights activists in Vietnam.

4)   To work for supporting measures by the people and government as well as business circles in free nations for the movement of labor rights in Vietnam.

 

 

 

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