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Five public sector union organisers from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu recently spent a week with Australian sister unions in Sydney, exchanging organising strategies and learning from each other’s experiences.

In Indonesia’s coal heartland, workers face unsafe conditions, insecure jobs and exploitation. But they are organising for change. See how coal workers are fighting for decent work and safer workplaces.

In July 2026, the Philippine Department of Health launched a new National Framework for the Prevention of Asbestos-Related Diseases, establishing a national policy direction for preventing asbestos-related diseases, strengthening awareness of asbestos regulations, and promoting coordinated efforts to prevent them.

Care work is essential. But in Indonesia, the workers who provide it –most of them women–are too often undervalued, underpaid, and conditions are far from decent work.

Maung Maung is the President of the Confederation of Trade Unions of Myanmar (CTUM). Since the military coup, trade unionists have been persecuted, jailed, forced into hiding or exile, and stripped of their citizenship.

MA’AN Development Centre is working with Universities to rehabilitate educational infrastructure, as the destruction of educational facilities now threatens the future of an entire generation of students.

Garment workers in Cambodia are getting results. Nine factories have already signed collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) covering more than 12,000 workers.

Across Asia and the Pacific, where asbestos-containing materials are still manufactured and used, many types of workers are at risk. Women, migrant workers, informal workers, children, older people, and persons with disabilities are affected by asbestos exposure, often outside formal employment settings, including domestic and care environments, community infrastructure, and disaster response and recovery. 

Join us in Sydney for internationalism’s night of nights at our annual Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA Global Solidarity Dinner. This year has taken us to unsettling new places and now, more than ever, it’s important to come together as a community to celebrate the hard-fought wins through the power of worker-to-worker solidarity! The powerful few who continue […]

Join us in Melbourne for internationalism’s night of nights at our annual Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA Global Solidarity Dinner. This year has taken us to unsettling new places and now, more than ever, it’s important to come together as a community to celebrate the hard-fought wins through the power of worker-to-worker solidarity! The powerful few who continue […]