After years of restrictive international sanctions during its years of military rule that crippled the country Burma's political, economic and social transition continues. For the first time in more than fifty years workplace laws have been passed to allow the formation of unions. A group of 4,000 gold miners are among the first to test the changing industrial landscape. [Audio transcript: Foreign companies [want] to attract foreign investment here...[so] there is an expectation that there will be workers' rights implemented through international labour conventions including the right to organise within unions and to bargain collectively...At the moment...that message has not gotten through to all employers, and to some of the employers where it has gone through, there has been a negative reaction]