Organize the migrant workers in the private sector to join unions in China Duration: three years (from 01-04-2005 to 01-04-2008)

Helen Xuan Yu, ACFTU

Situation of migrant worker

The country’s private sector has rapidly developed

A large number of people from rural areas has shifted in the private sector to work

These migrant workers face many problems in work

Many of them are unorganized

Cause of the problem

Low awareness of the migrant workers Bad implementation of the Trade Unions

Law of PRC in some private sector The ACFTU didn’t attach importance to

the issue of migrant workers before 2003 New plan of the ACFTU to increase its membership

didn’t clearly concern on migrant workers

Target Groups and Other Parties to be Involved Target Group:

Migrant workers Employers of the private sector

Implementers: Three department of ACFTU head office

Decision-makers and Financiers : ACFTU

Long-term Objectives

Ensuring equal human and workers’ rights between local workers and migrant workers

Immediate Objectives

Organizing about 9 million migrant workers in the private sector in the future three years

Founding stable mechanism to protect the migrant workers’ rights and attract them to join the trade unions

Activities

Propagate on freedom of association Participation in the lawmaking concerned

on migrant workers’ right Founding the stable mechanism to help

migrant workers Utilizing the ILO supervisory mechanism to

solve the serious cases of violation