News and Updates

The ITUC-Asia Pacific stands in firm solidarity with the workers and trade unions of India who are organising nationwide actions and strikes on 26 November 2025 to resist the Government of India’s unilateral implementation of four new labour codes.

The ITUC-Asia Pacific is gravely concerned by the worsening crisis of overwork facing Korea’s courier workers.

In a pivotal high-level dialogue at the State Palace in Jakarta, ITUC-Asia Pacific General Secretary, Shoya Yoshida, and ITUC General Secretary, Luc Triangle, have urged the President of Indonesia, His Excellency Prabowo Subianto to strengthen workers’ rights and labour protections in the ongoing review of labour legislations in the country.

The Congress reaffirmed CTUM’s resolve to represent Myanmar’s workers despite the junta’s attempts to suppress the country’s legitimate trade union movement.

Amid growing threats to democracy, peace, and workers’ rights in the region, the ITUC-Asia Pacific Regional General Council, in its 27th meeting held on 15–16 October 2025 in Nadi, Fiji, adopted eight resolutions that reaffirm the labour movement’s steadfast commitment to advancing social justice, promoting trade union solidarity, and ensuring the dignity and welfare of all workers across Asia and the Pacific.

The ITUC-Asia Pacific strongly condemns the violent raid carried out by Israeli occupation forces on the headquarters of the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) in Nablus on 15 October 2025.

The ITUC-Asia Pacific welcomes the recent ceasefire agreement in Gaza as a long-awaited and essential step towards ending the horrific cycle of violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives and caused immense suffering for civilians in both Gaza and Israel.

On the occasion of the World Day for Decent Work (WDDW), the ITUC-Asia Pacific reaffirms that democracy is the foundation of decent work.