The workshop was organised by the ATNC network in collaboration with its member in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee in April 2005 in Hong Kong. 15 participants from our member organisations, the Asia Monitor Resource Centre. . .

Organising Flexible Labour: Challenges and Opportunity for Social Organising

Building a Labour Movement in Asia:Workers Exchange Programme

The main principle of neo-liberalism is to enforce governments worldwide to change their national laws and policies towards 'free market' implementation. Neo-liberalism pushes national governments to apply trade and capital liberation, deregulation, privatisation of state-owned companies and labour market liberalisation. The consequence is the emergence of the global labour market as a competitive arena for working people from all over the world to find jobs. Neo-liberalism encourages companies to relocate their production to cheaper labour sources and to adopt contractual and flexible working relationships, including outsourcing and home-based work. This rearranges the nature of working relationships, from permanent jobs to contractual and flexible jobs. These new working conditions also systematically cut workers earnings, smash working community and their family down, and bring poverty.