Asia’s unions could grow their power while helping informal and precarious workers to secure their labour rights, but they would need to up their game.
Improving the lot of global supply chain workers involves not only organising local and migrant workers to pressure suppliers, brands and retailers, but leveraging the financial sector and state institutions.
A global labour movement is possible if traditional trade unions learn to see informal workers for the enormous asset that they are. A new series looks at how they might do that.
