“IndustriALL Union files ILO complaint against Thailand”, 6 Oct 2015

IndustriALL, a global labor union with 50 million members, has filed a complaint against Thailand at the International Labour Organization in Geneva…The complaint, sent to the ILO's committee on freedom of association, details 18 cases of worker and labor abuses…"IndustriALL…accuses the Thai government of failing to protect its workforce of 39 million workers, nearly half of whom are employed in the informal sector," [the group] said…IndustriALL said Thailand failed to guarantee the rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining to about 75 percent of the workforce, leading to it having the lowest unionization rate in Southeast Asia at 1.5 percent…