News and Updates

ITUC-Asia Pacific facilitated a series of engagements between British and Indian trade unions in New Delhi and Mumbai, India from 11–15 October 2026, strengthening cooperation to advance workers’ rights and ensure that labour commitments under the India–United Kingdom (UK) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) translate into concrete improvements for workers.

Pacific trade unions stepped up their collective efforts to advance a worker-centred Just Transition and equitable climate finance at Pacific Pre-COP31 Meeting, held in Fiji and Tuvalu from 5 to 8 October 2026.

Trade unions across Asia and the Pacific are stepping up efforts to secure the ratification of the recently adopted ILO Convention No. 193 (C193), while already using the new international labour standard to push for stronger national laws and policies, advance collective bargaining, and develop organising strategies that deliver concrete protections for platform workers.

On this International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, the ITUC-Asia Pacific renews its unequivocal call for the complete abolition of nuclear weapons and for a global security system founded on human dignity, justice, dialogue, and international cooperation.

On the International Day of Democracy, the ITUC-Asia Pacific strongly condemns the seven-year prison sentence handed down to veteran trade union leader and democracy advocate Lee Cheuk-yan and calls for his immediate and unconditional release.

ITUC-Asia Pacific welcomes the decision of Pacific Islands Forum Leaders to establish a Regional Labour Ministers Meeting as a dedicated ministerial mechanism within the Pacific regional architecture.

The International Trade Union Confederation - Asia Pacific (ITUC-Asia Pacific) stands in solidarity with Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa (SENTRO), the Workers Solidarity Network-DHL United Workers Union (WSN-DUWU), and the 473 DHL Supply Chain workers facing mass redundancy following the announced closure of the company’s warehouse in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila.

Women trade union leaders from across Asia and the Pacific agreed on concrete proposals to strengthen women’s leadership, increase women’s influence, and advance safe, dignified, and violence-free trade union spaces during the 28th ITUC-Asia Pacific Women’s Committee Meeting held in Bangkok, Thailand on 25-26 August 2026.