Recently, IndustriALL held a workshop on living wage in Yangon, Myanmar. Participants at the workshop discussed how to use wage-fixing mechanisms, how to combine a minimum wage strategy with collective bargaining, and how to extend collective bargaining agreements to sub-contractors and to cover contract and other precarious workers. There was an agreement over the collective bargaining process that it should have some tripartite mechanism to monitor it, which may lead to reducing the number of strikes. Furthermore national unions can get help from the global trade union federations to apply pressure. National unions should get the Government to agree to a contract for precarious workers. Contract workers should be covered by the factory’s collective bargaining agreement, as well as the minimum wage.
IndustriALL aims to strengthen affiliate actions to achieve a living wage in Myanmar, improve understanding of how unions can use the different wage-fixing mechanisms, explore how IndustriALL’s global living wage campaign can be used to improve wage outcomes in Myanmar, and further develop the affiliates’ campaign for implementation of the new minimum wage of US $ 3.2 per day.
Bharat Tex Special Report 2026 
