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Hong Kong: FADWU Founded - A Milestone for Domestic Workers' Rights in Asia

Hong Kong: FADWU Founded - A Milestone for Domestic Workers' Rights in Asia

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by IDWFED published Nov 21, 2010 12:00 AM
Hong Kong Federation of Asian Domestic Workers Unions (FADWU) was founded in November 2010.

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HONG KONG -

Joy and solidarity were on the agenda when the Hong Kong Federation of Asian Domestic Workers Unions (FADWU) was founded in November 2010. In Hong Kong, domestic workers are 300,000 strong, and comprise almost 9% of the population. Ron Oswald, General Secretary of IUF, hailed the formation of FADWU as an "important milestone in the long struggle for equal rights and respect for domestic workers."

IDWN International Coordinator, Karin Pape, who has worked tirelessly to win support for domestic worker protection, lauded the founding of FADWU by praising the founders: "Despite all the obstacles and difficulties, domestic workers can and DO organize." Dan Gallin, the founder of the Global Labour Institute, wrote that the Institute hoped to work with FADWU to advance the emancipation of domestic labour.

With technical and financial inputs from the ILO, FADWU affiliated six domestic worker unions in Hong Kong, Philippines, Nepal, and Thailand. Executive Committee members are PO Lai Wan, LUI Kit Ling, Estrade Shiella Grace, Mary Grace Juliet J. Deloso, Sringatin, Sri Miutarti, Wassana Srisamai, Phobsuk Gasing, Rai Suk Maya, Chandra Maya Sing Thakuri.

The Founding Congress was attended by senior Asian union leaders, such as Madame Lucero, assistant SG, ITUC-AP; Khurshid Ahmed, SG of the Pakistan Workers Federation; and Laxman Basnet, President of the Nepalese Trade Union Congress.

The founding unions are the Indonesian Migrant Workers Union; the Hong Kong Domestic Workers General Union; the Filipino Domestic Helpers General Union, Hong Kong; the Union of Nepalese Domestic Workers in Hong Kong; the Overseas Domestic Workers' Union - HK; and the Thai Migrant Workers' Union Hong Kong.

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