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Airport workers stage protest over labour conditions
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published : 10 Mar 2021 at 23:13
3 Airport workers protest over labour conditions at the Labour Ministry in Bangkok, Wednesday. (Photo: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Handout by Puwadon Onlamoon/International Transport Workers Federation)
Hundreds of airport workers held a demonstration in Bangkok on Wednesday to dispute changes to their contracts that they say strips them of basic labour rights and has led to forced resignations and arbitrary dismissals.
The protest involved at least 200 workers for AoT Aviation Security (AoT Avsec), a joint venture set up last year between state-owned Airports of Thailand (AoT) and three security firms, with unions saying conditions had worsened during the pandemic.
This story was originally published Feb. 20, 2021 by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
TOKYO, Feb 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Ayumi lost her part-time job at a restaurant last summer, she ended up relying on rice and pre-packaged fare delivered once a month by a food bank to her college campus in Tokyo. I cut my meals to once a day, in mid-afternoon, the 22-year-old said. Many friends were in the same boat they worked at eateries that were hit because of the coronavirus.
As job losses surge due to the pandemic, demand for food handouts has skyrocketed in Japan, prompting the government to release stockpiled rice to charities for the first time last May. Another expanded program started this month.