Women as unpaid family workers - Collective Bargaining (sitios de interés)
Descripción del sitio
As in 2010, in Indonesia women make up 34.4 percent of own account workers and 33.6 percent of unpaid family workers (ILO 2010). AMRC has been working with KPS, a group which organizes palm oil plantation workers and landless peasants in North Sumatra Province in Indonesia to encourage the formation of cross sector alliance between landless peasant and casual workers. One of the major issue is women as unpaid family workers inside the plantation. Through several workshops, the women gained their confidence to recognize themselves as workers. Thus, they are entitled to workers' rights. They also determine to make themselves visible, capable of becoming agent of change.
Full story: http://amrc.org.hk/node/1147