Nepal’s #CommunityHealthWorkers have won @who.int SEARO’s Public Health Champion Award 🏆
Despite their critical role in saving lives for decades, they’re still called “volunteers.”
✊They demand recognition, fair wages & social security.
#CHWs #DecentWork
psishort.link/CHWaward
Union win in Bangladesh🇧🇩
After sustained campaign by Just Transition Bangladesh Centre (JTBC) & ILO, 🇧🇩 government has added a dedicated #JustTransition chapter to the new climate action plan —putting workers’ rights, social protection & decent jobs at the center.
Read more: psishort.link/JTBC
Mumbai, India generates huge tax revenues, yet its #CommunityHealthWorkers face low pay & poor working conditions.
👩⚕️In 2024, they led a 45-day strike — & won. Watch their stories of struggle & victory.
🎥 psishort.link/MumVideo
#CHWs #WorkersRights #UnionPower
#HealthForAll #DecentWork
🔗 Read the Global Unions’ statement here: psishort.link/MyanmarElect...
🚨On Int. Day of Democracy, we condemn the Myanmar military junta’s Dec 28 sham elections—a blatant attempt to cement authoritarian control, silence dissent, and prolong state terror. 📷Let's raise our voices for democracy, justice, and human rights. Silence is complicity 📷🤐
Mr. Jihaad Saad from West Bank joined #APRECON2025 online to share message from #Palestine with us. We stand in solidarity with the workers and people of Palestine who are facing acute humanitarian crisis at the hands of Israeli occupying forces. #Gaza
Despite being attacked by the police & being injured a few days ago, Bangladesh youth leader Nazmul Hasan joined and spoke at #APRECOn2025. Students & young workers were instrumental in last year's Bangladesh uprising. #UnionPower #workersunite
#APRECON2025 kicked off with Young Workers' Forum, clearly showing that young workers are the priority and future of trade union movement. #UnionPower #workersunite #YoungWorkers
#APRECON2025 starts with a powerful message from PSI General Secretary Daniel Bertossa. In the increasingly unequal world, public service workers face attacks, as they stand between corporate greed & quality public services.
#UnionPower #workersunite
@kate-psi.bsky.social, PSI's AP Regional Secy, speaks about the upcoming #APRECON2025. She discusses #climatecrisis, #digitalisation, #CommunityHealthWorkers & other issues that trade unions are taking up and some of the +ve developments in the region.
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✌️Nurses in Malaysia won a major victory: the govt has paused plans to increase weekly working hours from 42 ➝ 45 hrs. Thanks to tireless campaigns by nurses' unions.
Now it's time to push for shorter working hours & more staff.
📖 psishort.link/MalayNurses
#Health4All #TradeUnionRights
✊Lakhs of public service workers, including ASHA workers, Anganwadis, CHWs, Entomologists and others protested on 9 July against anti-worker reforms & privatisation in India.
📢 Read more: psishort.link/IndPrtst
#BharatBandh #WorkersRights
Female Community Health Workers (FCHWs) are essential to Nepal’s health system—yet remain informal, unpaid or underpaid, and excluded from protection.
Their fight for #DecentWork long live!
#CHW #CommunityHealthWorkers
@iloactrav.bsky.social @sask.fi
✊PSI affiliates HEVON & NEVA submitted a Charter of Demands to🇳🇵Nepal's Labour Minister Sharat Singh Bhandari calling for:
👩⚕️ Regularisation of Female Community Health Workers
🛡️ Inclusion under the Social Security Fund (SSF)
@who.int @ilo.org
#UnionPower #HealthWorkersRights #CommunityHealthWorkers
✊ Strike for your Rights!
On 9 July, 10 Central Trade Unions have called a nationwide strike in India demanding:
❌ Rollback of anti-worker labour codes
💰 ₹26,000 minimum wage
🛡️ Pension & social security for all
📖 psishort.link/IN-StrikeWP
#BharatBandh #FightBack
✊ Towards 9 July Workers' Strike in India! 🔴
The Central Trade Unions (CTUs) in India have given a call for nationwide strike demanding roll back of the anti-worker labour codes & minimum wage of INR 26,000, among others.
#Fightback #BharatBandh #GeneralStrike #workerstrike
🚨Pakistan police arrested Trade Union leader Shah Ali Bugti & more than 150 govt employees on 27 June. All Pakistan Labour Federation & others have been protesting for demands regarding ⬆️ in wages & other benefits.✊🏽APLF & PCMLF condemned the arrests.
PSI stands in solidarity!
🛑No More Wars!✊
Trade Unions gathered in Nagpur, India 🇮🇳 on June 26 demanding end to the wars happening across the world. They asked for dismantling of NATO & an end to US hegemony and imperialism.
🕊️ We want peace, not war!
🍞 We need bread, not bombs!
#Palestine #GazaGenocide
✊ASHA workers in Mumbai on strike!
Braving the rains, thousands of ASHA workers and CHVs protested in Azad Maidan on June 16. What began as a one-day protest, turned into a strike in which workers have stopped the work.
PSI stands in solidarity.
#ASHAStrike #TradeUnionRights
📜Their posters speak for themselves about their resolve and demands... #DecentWork #HealthSecurity
🧑⚕️PSI's Organising Training of Urban Primary Health Centre health workers in #Nagpur. What started as mobilisation for salaries and PPE kit during #COVID19, has become a full-fledged union of more than 200 women workers. ✊ #PublicWorkersFightback #GenderEquality
✊🏽 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝘆𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗮𝗱, 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮!
On 20 May, INTUC's Municipal Sahakar Mazdoor Union organised bike rally to demand:
🔴 Abolition of 4 anti-worker labour codes
🛑 End of contractorisation
💰 Increase of minimum wage to ₹26,000/month
#TradeUnionRights
📢 Out Now!
The 5th issue of The Future is Public by Korean Public Service and Transport Workers' Union (KPTU) is here.
📖From remunicipalisation to energy justice to care work—this issue dives into struggles & solutions for reclaiming public services.
#TheFutureIsPublic
psishort.link/KPTUnl
📢 Out Now!
The 5th issue of The Future is Public by KPTU is here.
📖From remunicipalisation to resisting far-right, from energy justice to care work—this issue dives into struggles & solutions for reclaiming public services.
#TheFutureIsPublic
🔗 psishort.link/KPTUnl
📍Nepal | PSI’s CHW Training to:
🗣️ Build skills in advocacy & media
🕵🏽 Identify key issues like unpaid labour & lackof recognition
🗺️ Map decision-makers from local to national level
✊🏽 Strengthening voices. Demanding dignity.
#CommunityHealthWorkers #Health4All #TradeUnionRights
🏦 From schools to farmlands, finance is taking over.
📢Join @grain.org , PSI & Resisting Pension Fund Capitalism Project for a crucial discussion on private equity firms, pension fund managers & SWFs in Asia Pacific, and how we fight back.
Register here: psishort.link/PensionFund
Sanitation workers often come from the most marginalised communities, e.g. Dalits in 🇮🇳, Christian minorities in 🇵🇰 etc.
Ensuring them decent work is key to empowering the poorest population. Strong unions are central to this change. #SocialJustice #WorkersRights #DecentWork
✊ PSI held a capacity-building training for union organisers in the sanitation sector from 6–8 May in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
15 participants from 🇮🇳🇵🇰🇧🇩🇳🇵 discussed organising strategies, mapped “green dots,” & set winnable goals for 2025. #TradeUnionRights #SanitationWorkers
@kate-psi.bsky.social
✊𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗔 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗮 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟴𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀!
Anita Kumari from KAHWA & @kate-psi.bsky.social from PSI spoke about the strike & gendered exploitation in a webinar by @awidwomensrights.bsky.social
Sign petition in solidarity with Kerala's ASHA workers: www.change.org/SupportASHAw...
Sign PSI's petition to show solidarity with the striking ASHA workers of Kerala.
www.change.org/SupportASHAw...
#ASHAworkersProtest #DecentWork #CommunityHealthWorkers #Kerala
