Organising the private sector and seasonal workers in Samoa

Project

Status: Current
Focus Area: Worker's Rights
Categories: Union organising, workers rights

Country

Project Description

Supporting the Samoa First Union (SFU), the only private sector union in Samoa, in representing the needs and interests of workers across various industries, including retail, manufacturing, hotels, hospitality, and maritime, as well as seasonal workers deployed to Australia and New Zealand.

Project Partners

Samoa First Union (SFU)

News from the field

Supporting Samoa’s seasonal workers

Samoa First Union is the first and only private sector union in Samoa and have become well-known nationally for their advocacy for workers’ rights across a broad spectrum of industries and issues, including supporting workers in Australia’s Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme.
Building Unionism in Samoa

Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has been working with Samoa First Union (SFU) in what has had a busy year developing and implementing organising plans across the private sector workplaces of Samoa.
Samoa First Union gives hope to workers hit hard by the Pandemic

Samoa has been greatly impacted by the global pandemic. Many workers have been laid off and financial distress is growing. However, Samoa First Union is there to give them hope.
Samoa First Union on verge of big win for workers

Landmark labour reforms will bring concrete improvements to working rights and conditions for Samoans.
Samoa First Union pushes for a fair minimum wage

Samoa First Union (SFU) has been educating workers and the commmunity in their campaign to lift the minimum wage in Samoa.
Shoulder-to-shoulder with Samoa First

Samoa First Union (SFU) have been working hard over the past 12 months to organise new members and concentrate on the fundamentals of union building.
APHEDA People: Meet Saina Tomi

This month we spoke with Saina Tomi, an Organiser for Samoa First Union (SFU). SFU was formed in June 2015 and is the first private sector union in Samoa.
Spotlight on: Exploitation of Seasonal Workers in Australia

Australia’s Pacific Labour Scheme must be more closely scrutinised. Because of a lack of regulation, the Pacific Labour Scheme allows exploitative treatment of migrant workers that meets the definition of modern slavery.