Myanmar: Trade union decries country's bad record on supporting labour unions
"Labour group decries country's record on unions, worker rights", 15 June 2018
Myanmar is among 24 countries that have very bad records on supporting labour unions and the right of workers to form unions, officials of the Confederation of Trade Union Myanmar said.
The conference noted that the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Rights to Organise Convention, which Myanmar ratified in 1955, is poorly implemented in the country.
...[U]nion leaders are fired and there are many ways that management tries to break unions, which do not get enough protection from the government....
The conference discussed four key issues about the weak implementation of the convention in Myanmar – amendment of the labour law and peacefully assembly law, discrimination in the workplace, and problems in special economic zones.