Myanmar ILO and major garment trade unions sign agreement to promote social dialogue

Myanmar ILO and major garment trade unions sign agreement to promote social dialogue on 11th August 2018

The International Labour Organization has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM), and with the Myanmar Industries Craft and Services (MICS) to enhance the capacity of relevant garment trade unions to engage constructively in social dialogue and industrial relations at the factory level.
Yangon (ILO News) – The ILO has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM), affiliated to the Confederation of Trade Unions of Myanmar (CTUM), and with the Myanmar Industries Craft and Services (MICS) to cooperate in a trade union capacity building programme over the next 12 months.
“Having sound internal structures is key for strong and representative trade unions. Honing the skills needed to put freedom of association, collective bargaining and sustainable industrial relations into practice is essential to the trade union movement”, said ILO Liaison Officer in Myanmar Rory Mungoven, as he signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
Over 30 selected trade unionists from IWFM and MICS will participate in a training programme offered by the ILO’s Garment Industry Project (ILO GIP), comprising eight training modules, focusing ons principles of basic functioning of a trade union, foundations of freedom of association, collective bargaining and workplace cooperation, and trade union financial and democratic management.
As part of the MoU, IWFM and MICS, which represent almost 20,000 garment workers in Myanmar, commit to replicate the training beyond the initial capacity building programme offered by the ILO. Accordingly, the participants of the programme in turn will deliver training to members of selected Basic Labour Organizations (BLOs) and township level union leaders affiliated to their organizations..
“By replicating the training to members of BLOs, we will improve the services provided by these organizations at the factory level, and these will surely contribute to an increased number of collective bargaining agreements and cases of successful dispute resolution”, stressed U U Thet Hnin Aung, President of MICS.
“Reforming internal union administration and acquiring sound knowledge of the labour organization laws, as well as the settlement labour dispute law, will improve the way we assist our members and ultimately attain social justice in our country”, said Khaing Zar Aung, President of IWFM.

အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာ အလုပ္သမားေရးရာအဖဲြ႔ ILO ႏွင့္ အဓိကက်ေသာ အထည္ခ်ဳပ္အလုပ္သမားအဖြဲ႔အစည္း ႏွစ္ဖြ႔ဲသည္ အလုပ္ရွင္ အလုပ္သမား ဆက္ဆံေရး၊ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ား ပုိမုိေကာင္းမြန္လာေစရန္အတြက္ လက္တဲြေဆာင္ရြက္သြားရန္ နားလည္မႈ စာခြ်န္လႊာ လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးျခင္း ။ ၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္ ၾသဂုတ္လ (၁၁) ရက္၊
ILO သည္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံလံုးဆုိင္ရာ အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ CTUM ၏ အဖဲြ႔၀င္ျဖစ္သည့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ကုန္ထုတ္ႏွင့္စက္မႈလက္မႈ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားအဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (IWFM) ႏွင့္ ၂၀၁၈ ခုႏွစ္ ၾသဂုတ္လ (၁၁) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ နားလည္မႈ စာခြ်န္လႊာတစ္ခု အား သေဘာတူလက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးခဲ့ပါသည္။ ထုိ႔အတူ ျမန္မာႏုိ္င္ငံ စက္မႈလက္မႈႏွင့္ ၀န္ေဆာင္မႈ လုပ္ငန္းေပါင္းစံု အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢမ်ား အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (MICS) ႏွင့္လည္း လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးခဲ့ပါသည္။
လက္မွတ္ေရးထုိးရျခင္း ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္မွာ ခ်ည္မွ်င္နွင့္ အထည္ခ်ဳပ္စက္ရံုမ်ား၌ ရွိေသာ အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ စက္ရံုအဆင့္တြင္ ေကာင္းမြန္သည့္ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္ ဆက္ဆံေရးကုိ တည္ေဆာက္ရာတြင္ လုိအပ္ေသာ စြမ္းေဆာင္ရည္ကုိ ျမွင့္တင္ေပးႏုိင္ေရးအတြက္ ရည္ရြယ္ျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ IWFM ႏွင့္ MICS တုိ႔သည္ အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢမ်ား စြမ္းေဆာင္ေရး ျမွင့္တင္ေရး စီမံခ်က္ကာလ တစ္နွစ္တာအတြင္း ILO ႏွင့္ ပူးတဲြ လုပ္ေဆာင္သြား မည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
IWFM ႏွင့္ MICS တုိ႔မွ ေရြးခ်ယ္ေပးေသာ အလုပ္သမား သမဂၢအမႈေဆာင္မ်ား၊ စည္းရံုးေရးမွဴးမ်ား (၃၀) ဦးေက်ာ္သည္ ILO ၏ ခ်ည္မွ်င္အထည္က႑ စီမံခ်က္မွ ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ သင္တန္းမ်ားတြင္ ပါ၀င္သြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ထုိစီမံခ်က္ သင္တန္းသင္ရိုးေပါင္း ၈ ခုပါ၀င္မည္ျဖစ္ျပီး အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢတစ္ခုအေနျဖင့္ ရပ္တည္ရာတြင္ အေျခခံ လုိအပ္ခ်က္မ်ား၊ လြတ္လပ္စြာ အသင္းအပင္းဖြဲ႔စည္းျခင္း၏ အေျခခံမ်ား၊ စုေပါင္းညိွႏိႈင္းေတာင္းဆုိမႈႏွင့္ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္တြင္း ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္း၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီနည္းက် အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢ ဘ႑ာေရးႏွင့္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးဆုိင္ရာ အေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားကုိ သင္ၾကား ပုိ႔ခ်မည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
သင္တန္းမ်ားကုိ တက္ေရာက္ထားေသာ အလုပ္သမားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ စည္းရုံးေရးမွဴးမ်ား အေနျဖင့္ ၄င္းတုိ႔ အေျခခံအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားမွ အဖဲြ႔၀င္မ်ားႏွင့္ ျမိိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္းရွိ အျခားေသာ အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢအဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားအား ဆင့္ပြားသင္တန္းေပးျခင္း လုပ္ငန္းကုိလည္း တာ၀န္ေပးအပ္ျခင္း ခံရမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
ဤစီမံခ်က္သည္ အလုပ္သမား သမဂၢမ်ားအား လြတ္လပ္ အမွီအခုိကင္းစြာ ရပ္တည္ႏုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ စြမ္းေဆာင္ရည္ျမင့္မားသည့္ သမဂၢေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားျဖစ္လာေစေရးအတြက္ မ်ားစြာ အေထာက္အပံ့ျဖစ္ေစမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ထို႔ျပင္ ေကာင္းမြန္သည့္ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္ဆက္ဆံေရးကုိ တည္ေဆာက္ႏုိင္ေစရန္အတြက္လည္း ကူညီေပးႏုိင္မည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။