WHEN State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi visited Thailand last month she signed an agreement aimed at ensuring better protection, rights and working conditions for the millions of Myanmar migrant labourers in the neighbouring country.
Agreements on labour cooperation and cross border affairs were also signed during the visit by Aung San Suu Kyi, who was in Thailand in her capacity as State Counsellor.
The situation of Myanmar workers in Thailand was a focus of Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit and it included a trip to a coastal town near Bangkok to meet some of the thousands of her compatriots who work in seafood factories.
Since Aung San Suu Kyi returned home, extreme Thai nationalists have been campaigning against Myanmar workers. They accuse Myanmar workers of making unemployment worse among Thais and say they should not have the same rights as Thai employees. They also say that Myanmar workers should not have jobs that labour laws say are restricted to Thais. (Courtesy of frontiermyanmar.net)
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