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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Sep 30

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
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Nepal CHWs win WHO's Public Health Champion Award

The World Health Organisation has recognised Nepal's Community Health Workers with the Public Health Champion award for their crucial role in reducing maternal mortality. Despite this prestigious reco...

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Sep 25

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.
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Bangladesh Unions Secure Just Transition Chapter in Climate Plan

PSI union members in Bangladesh, working with the Just Transition Bangladesh Centre and the ILO, pushed their government to include a dedicated Just Transition chapter in the country's latest National...

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Sep 22

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

Struggles and Victories of CHWs in Mumbai

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Sep 15

🔗 Read the Global Unions’ statement here: psishort.link/MyanmarElect...

Reject Myanmar Military Junta's Sham Elections

PSI Asia Pacific joins Global Union Federations in condemning the Myanmar military junta’s dangerous manoeuvring to legitimise its dictatorship through sham elections scheduled for 28 December, 2025.

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Sep 15

🚨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 📷🤐

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Sep 11

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

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Sep 8

#APRECON2025 kicked off with Young Workers' Forum, clearly showing that young workers are the priority and future of trade union movement. #UnionPower #workersunite #YoungWorkers

PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Sep 8

#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

PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jul 25

@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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When the Rich and TNCs Act Globally, Trade Unions Must Unite to Fightback

Kate Lappin, Asia Pacific Regional Secretary, PSI, speaks to Sagarmatha TV of Nepal about the upcoming 15th Asia Pacific Regional Conference (APRECON 2025) in Kathmandu, Nepal. She charts out the chal...

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jul 23

✌️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

Nurses Register Victory in Malaysia, Halt Increase in Working Hours

Nurses in Malaysia have won a major victory as the government has withdrawn its plan to increase their working hours from 42 to 45 hours per week. The proposed extension was strongly opposed by nurses...

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jul 16

✊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

Unions Unite Against Anti-worker Policies in Nationwide Protests in India

Lakhs of workers across India participated in a massive nationwide strike on 9 July 2025, led by 10 Central Trade Unions. The strike was a clear show of resistance against sweeping reforms that threat...

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jul 15

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
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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jul 15

✊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

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jul 8

✊ 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

9th July - Workers to go on Nationwide Strike in India

In a historic show of unity, 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) in India have jointly called for nationwide protests on 9 July. Workers across sectors will mobilise to demand labour rights, fair wages, an...

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jul 7

✊ 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

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jun 30

🚨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!

PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jun 28

🛑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

PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jun 24

✊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

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jun 1

📜Their posters speak for themselves about their resolve and demands... #DecentWork #HealthSecurity

PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · Jun 1

🧑‍⚕️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

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · May 21

✊🏽 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

PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · May 19

📢 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
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The fifth issue of "The Future is Public" is out - a KPTU & PPIP magazine

Organised by the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers' Union (KPTU) and its research arm, the Public Policy Institute for People (PPIP), this publication aims to highlight a growing global tren...

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · May 19

📢 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

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The fifth issue of "The Future is Public" is out - a KPTU & PPIP magazine

Organised by the Korean Public Service and Transport Workers' Union (KPTU) and its research arm, the Public Policy Institute for People (PPIP), this publication aims to highlight a growing global tren...

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PSI Asia Pacific @psiasiapacific.bsky.social · May 19

📍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