14th ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE

14th ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL CONFERENCE

Campaign submissions

#APRECON2019 Would like to showcase your best campaign slogan/images/videos

How to submit your campaign photos, slogan and videos

#APRECON2019 would like to showcase your best campaign slogan/photo/video. Make a submission now and harness the power of APRECON 2019 to bolster your campaign!

These should be related to the various topics that we are going to talk about at APRECON 2019:

  • Young Workers
  • Women Workers
  • The Future of Workers
  • Asia-Pacific Regional Priorities: Trade Union Rights; Tax Justice; Privatisation of Public Services; Gender Equality; Emergency Service Workers; Trade Agreements and Trade Justice; Migration and Refugees

Your submissions will have a chance to feature in APRECON’s various sessions and events. They will also be available on the APRECON event website and app, for everyone to enjoy and share.

Each affiliate may send as many submissions as they like, but the Organizing Committee reserves the right to curate the final galleries, based upon the principles of fair representation, necessity, and technical qualities.

All submissions should be made by 30 August 2019.

Download a PDF of PSI's circular

SLOGANS THAT HAVE MADE AN IMPACT

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What we are looking for: The most creative, tough, witty, impactful slogan that your union has ever come up with.

What you need to do: Send to madelline.romero@world-psi.org, through e-mail attachment, google drive link, or, we-transfer link, a high-resolution online version (PDF/EPS/JPG/TIFF/GIF/PNG) of:

  • The slogan/banner by 30 August 2019
  • A copy of the logo of the union.

Please provide a description:

  • Name of union:
  • Links to union’s social media
    • Facebook:
    • Twitter:
    • Instagram:
  • Duration when slogan/banner was used (year/s):
  • Brief description of the outcome/impact of campaign:
  • Online link/s to campaign:
  • Contact name and email address:

Bring the actual banner to APRECON for display in the slogans & banners gallery.

IMAGES THAT TELL OUR STORIES

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What we are looking for: The most compelling images that speak of the stories that we want to tell the world. Please note that we do NOT seek photos of protest actions for this gallery; rather, we seek photos that capture the story behind the campaign: (a) people/places/scenarios that are most affected by the problem; (b) solutions to the problem; (c) benefits and impacts of the campaign to communities.

What you need to do: Send to madelline.romero@world-psi.org, through e-mail attachment, google drive link, or, we-transfer link, a high-resolution online version (PDF/EPS/JPG/TIFF/GIF/PNG) of:

  • The image by 30 August 2019
  • A copy of the logo of the union

Please provide a description:

  • Name of union:
  • Links to union’s social media
    • Facebook:
    • Twitter:
    • Instagram:
  • Duration when slogan/banner was used (year/s):
  • Brief description of the outcome/impact of campaign:
  • Online link/s to campaign:
  • Contact name and email address:

CAMPAIGN VIDEOS

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What we are looking for: Videos showing your union’s campaign on any of these topics: (a) Young Workers; (b) Women Workers; (c) Issues workers are facing; (d) Trade Union Rights; ( e) Privatisation; (f) Gender Equality; (g) Tax Justice; (h) Funding for Quality Public Services; (i) Emergency Service Workers; (j) Trade Agreements and Corporate Power; (k) Migration and Refugees.

What you need to do: Send to madelline.romero@world-psi.org through e-mail attachment, a website (YouTube) link, or google drive/we-transfer link, of:

  • The video by 30 August 2019
  • A copy of the logo of the union

Please provide a description

  • Name of union:
  • Links to union’s social media
    • Facebook:
    • Twitter:
    • Instagram:
  • Brief synopsis of the video:
  • Online link/s to campaign:
  • Contact name and email address:
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Is CPSU for U? (video)

Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) Victorian branch, Australia

This video was used as a social media ad (Facebook and LinkedIn) to recruit young people (under 35s) for CPSU Victoria. We specifically targeted young people working in the public sector in Victoria. The video provides young workers with information about the union and tells them about the benefits of being a member.

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#Because of Us (video)

Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU/CSA), Australia

‘Because of Us, WA Works!’ – Our members told us what happens in Western Australia because of the work they do.

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#Because of Us (slogan)

Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU/CSA), Australia

‘Because of Us, WA Works!’ – Our members told us what happens in Western Australia because of the work they do.

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International Women's Day (slogan)

Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU/CSA), Australia

CPSU/CSA members and staff marching to the International Women’s Day even in Perth, with proudly ‘homemade’ signs.

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Stand together (slogan)

New Zealand Public Service Association (NZPSA), New Zealand

‘Stand Together’ – During the election period, we ran a campaign called ‘Stand Together.’ Under that, we ran to different avenues – one was Stand Together for Health; and the other was ‘Stand Together for Public Services’

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 STAND TOGETHER FOR HEALTH

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STAND TOGETHER FOR PUBLIC SERVICES

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A woman's place is in her union (slogan)

Confederation of Public Service Independence Trade Union, (COPSITU), Sri Lanka

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Global Climate Strike (video)

Public Services Labor Independent Confederation (PSLINK), Philippines

PSLINK launched its call to action in solidarity with the Global Climate Strike held on March 15, 2019.

PSLINK believes that as trade unions we must show our solidarity to the young people who are taking up the cudgels for our people and planet. We must show our support for these young people who are pushing the "adults" to do the right thing. Thus, PSLINK called on all affiliates and other advocates to join the Global Climate Strike and support the young people in their clamor for change through a fan sign campaign. After the call to action, many affiliates from different parts of the country heeded the call and posted photos of themselves on facebook holding the slogans PSLINK developed. It was a successful campaign that encouraged particularly young public service workers and women workers to get involved in climate justice issues.

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Nepal Health Volunteers Association (photo)

Nepal Health Volunteers Association (NEVA)

On Health Post days, mothers and children crowd at the Balaju Community Health Post for regular checkup and immunization. In a health system where a typical health post has 4 government staff and 34 volunteers to take care of the needs of community members who cannot afford private health care (and in Nepal that’s majority of the population), perhaps it is not an exaggeration to say that primary health care would collapse if all the Female Community Health Volunteers were to stop working. 

While the Nepal government did acknowledge their contribution to reducing child mortality rate and to Nepal’s achieving that Millennium Development Goal, such recognition is not reflected on how the government still treats them – as volunteers and not government employees who deserve regular compensation and social security benefits. PSI affiliates Health Volunteers Organisation of Nepal (HEVON) and Nepal Health Volunteers Association (NEVA), with support from SASK, JHL, and TEHY, are advocating to change this.

Photos by: Riwaj Rai, May 2019 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

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Health Volunteer Organization of Nepal (photo)

Health Volunteers Organisation of Nepal (HEVON)

Many among the Female Community Health Volunteers in Satungal village in western Kathmandu have been volunteers for over 30 years. With the years came the trust - the most useful social currency in mostly rural Nepal - afforded them by community members, each and everyone of whom they have visited many times during their regular door-to-door campaigns. During these campaigns they had brought - depending on the government campaign at the time - Vitamin A supplements and anti-polio drops or vaccines for the young children, and most important of all, they say, information from the far away health post. Because of this trust, they are the ones sought by pregnant mothers to provide answers to their questions; by sick community members whose conditions they try to hide from the rest of the community for fear of being discriminated against; by seriously ill villagers who are finally persuaded to have themselves checked in at the hospital.

All these women take tremendous pride in being able to serve their community. But they also - with some more vocal than others about it - worry that in the name of community volunteerism, their right to decent work will remain an abstract idea.

PSI affiliates Health Volunteers Organisation of Nepal (HEVON) and Nepal Health Volunteers Association (NEVA), with support from SASK, JHL, and TEHY, are advocating for Nepal's 52,000-strong Female Community Health Workers to be recognized as regular government staff, with the proper compensation and social security.

Photos by: Riwaj Rai, June 2019 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/...

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Greater Mumbai Community Health Workers (photo)

In 2014, when the union, MMKMMUT MASKS, filed a complaint to the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation regarding the failure of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai to make contributions to the community health volunteers’ provident and pension fund, three years after the corporation had been directed to do so by the 2011 Ministry of Labour & Employment Notification, such complaint was to be the start of a landmark case in India involving a municipal workers’ union fighting for their rights under the Employees’ Provident Funds & Miscellaneous Provisions (EPF & MP) Act of 1952.

In response to the appeal made by the corporation to the 2016 court decision, the labour court ruled on July 3, 2019 that the community health volunteers are employees of the corporation, and that the latter is to deposit Rs 22.67 crore (USD3.3 million) to the former’s provident and pension fund.

Implementation of this court ruling has remained elusive. The community health workers continue to fight.

Photos by: Prakash Devdas / MMKMMUT MASKS - https://www.facebook.com/PSIAPRO/

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Anganwadi Workers and Helpers (photo)

Tamil Nadu Government Officials Union, India

Considered volunteers, Anganwadi workers and helpers are not part of regular government compensation and social benefit schemes, including pension. While they, backed by various trade unions including the Anganwadi Workers and Helpers Union, and allies including PSI, have been able to negotiate wages over the decades - from 70 rupees monthly in 1975 when the Indian government began the Integrated Child Development Services programme, to 8,000 to 14,000 rupees ($115 to $200) presently - current wage levels and benefits are still grossly insufficient to support a family, not to mention extremely incommensurate to the amount of workload (a worker may be responsible for up to 40 children aged 0 to 60 months, from 8am to 4pm everyday, six days a week) which sometimes extends beyond mother-and-child care to cover ad hoc community needs, for example, providing support in election processes.

The 'angan' (literally courtyard), after all, has been the traditional setting, especially in rural areas, where plans for development are hatched by community members.

The advocacy towards regularization of government employment continues.

Photos by: Ganesh, April 2019 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/psi_isp_iska/albums/72157708970439192/with/48017301571/

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No Jobs on a Dead Planet (slogan)

Public Services Labor Independent Confederation (PSLINK), Philippines

PSLINK launched its call to action in solidarity with the Global Climate Strike held on March 15, 2019. PSLINK believes that as trade unions we must show our solidarity to the young people who are taking up the cudgels for our people and planet. We must show our support for these young people who are pushing the "adults" to do the right thing. Thus, PSLINK called on all affiliates and other advocates to join the Global Climate Strike and support the young people in their clamor for change through a fan sign campaign. After the call to action, many affiliates from different parts of the country heeded the call and posted photos of themselves on Facebook holding the slogans PSLINK developed. It was a successful campaign that encouraged particularly young public service workers and women workers to get involved in climate justice issues.

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One Union, One Industry. Unionize! Organize! (slogan)

Alliance of Filipino Workers (AFW), Philippines

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Stop Workplace Violence! (slogan)

Alliance of Filipino Workers (AFW), Philippines


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Wage increase (slogan)

Cambodia’s Independent Civil Servants Association (CICA), Cambodia


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Hydroelectric Workers (slogan)

All Pakistan WAPDA Hydroelectric Workers Union (WAPDA), Pakistan

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Advancing Labour Rights - Reducing gender violence (slogan)

Bangladesh Women Welfare Workers Union, Bangladesh

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Solidarity cannot be broken (slogan)

Solomon Islands Public Employees Union (SIPEU), Solomon Islands


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Busting Union Misconceptions (Videos)

Alliance of Filipino Workers, Philippines

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Women strikes

UNISON, United Kingdom


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