23 young workers activitist from eight affiliated unions in Thailand participated in two days workshop, 23-24 October 2007, on Young Workers and Quality Public Services. This workshop was organised by the PSI South East Asia Sub-regional office in order to facilitate young workers to be actively involve in the union works. This activty also to [...]

The Korean National Statistical said that the nations’s youth labour market remains sluggish even though the overall unemployment rate is decreasing. The unemployment rate among youths aged 15 to 29 came in at 7 percent in September, down 0.3 percentage point from a month earlier. The overall employment rate also dropped 1 percentage point [...]

All the Indonesian affiliated unions of Public Services International participated in an event to mark October 17th, the international day for the eradication of poverty under the theme of “The Achievement of MDG’s on Water and Sanitation”. Almost half of the participants were young leaders and activitist of our affiliated unions in Indonesia but [...]

PSI South Asia Office with the affiliated unions in India have organised the Global call action against poverty on October 17, 2007. They made a presentation to a secondary school in Faridabad where the global call of action against poverty was explained. Students, teachers and employees of the school all took the pledge to stand [...]

Australia has seen its jobless rate fall to its lowest level in 33 years in September, official data shows, raising chances of an interest rate rise. Employers created 13,000 new jobs for the month, sending the unemployment rate down to 4.2% from 4.3%.
The job rise was lower than forecast but came after August’s figures [...]

Brussels, 2 October 2007: the Youth Department of the Central de Trabajadores de la Argentina (CTA), the HIJOS group, the agricultural workers’ Federación Agraria Argentina (FAA) and the Federación Universitaria Argentina (FUA) organised a huge march on Friday 28 September to the Parliament, where they transmitted the 10 demands comprising the political agenda agreed [...]