UNI ASIA PASIFIC YOUTH

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UNI ASIA PASIFIC YOUTH
Kun Wardana Abyoto President of UNI Apro Youth
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UNI Apro Youth Structure

• Bangladesh
• India
• Srilangka
• Pakistan
• Nepal

• Japan
• South Korea
• Taiwan

• Indonesia
• Malaysia
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Philipines

• Australia
• New Zealand

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Threat and Challenges of Youth
TECHNOLOGIES
New Workers New Rights
Digital Divide
Changes of Job Content Skill requirements
Hypercompetition Unemployment Unsecured Welfare
LIBERALIZATION
GLOBALIZATION

• Loss of Job
• Outsourcing
• Restructuring
• Increment of Part Time Contract Worker

Loss of Membership
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• Big Issue in Asia Pasific
• Child Labour
• Youth Unemployment
• Globalization

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ILO Reports Youth Unemployment
Worldwide 66 million young people are openly
unemployed. Many millions are underemployed. Most
of them come from poor and developing
countries Youth unemployment is very damaging
for young people, societies, cultures and
economies Youth unemployment are linked with
social problems such as crime, vandalism and
drugs
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Our Youth are our future ?? Our Future is
shouldering the burden of 40 of the worlds
unemployment, even more by underemployment Our
Future bedeviled by discrimination Our Future is
threatened by other problems associated with
joblessness crime, vandalism and drugs Our
Future do not have enough decent work Our Future
does not have social stability yet
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Top Four Priorities for any National Youth
Employment Action Plan
1. Enhancing Employability Invest in education
and vocational training for young people and
improve the impact of these investments 2.
Ensuring Equality Give young women the same
opportunities as young men 3. Promoting
Enterpreneurship Make it easier to start and run
enterprises to provide more and better jobs for
young women and men 4. Creating Employment Place
employment creation at the center of
macroeconomic policy
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• Big Issue in Asia Pasific
• Child Labour
• Youth Unemployment
• Globalization

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What can workers do about this ?

• Know the issues
• Make our voices heard
• Solidarity with the most vulnerable
• Educate others
• Know what we are buying
• Transparency
• Democracy
• New Rules

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What kind of rules are needed?

• Fair comparative advantage
• protect health and the environment
• protect public services
• sharing the wealth
• International solidarity

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Are Youth all over the world well prepared to
anticipate globalization and liberalization era
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Globalization and Liberalization Era
NOW
Success Condition
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Guidance by Bro Phillip Bowyer UNI Apro/UNI LCJ
Youth Seminar, August 2003
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Asia Pasific Youth Networking Program
UNI CONNECTUNI BRIDGE UNI FREE-WAY
Region-level
Japan
Malaysia

Country Author
Country Admin
Country Author
Country-level
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• We are doing something
• Organising
• Organising
• Organising

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Koffi Annan
Youth are an asset, not a problem
Looking at Youth as contributors, innovators,
frontrunners in economic and social development,
bringing idealism, activism and intellectualism
to the table
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Youth are not only leaders of the future

• But also leaders of today
• Leaders of those younger
• Leaders of our generation
• Partners in leadership with the state and those
  older

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• Youth in Asia Pacific has not been sleeping
• We call for
• More opportunities for youth to play a role in
  trade union
• Creation of structures for youth
• Training and Retraining opportunities to more
  relevant in the workplace
• To have a youth agenda in every level
• Networking among Young Trade Union Activists in
  different Regions

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New Perspective on Youth
off the youth, buy the Youth, force the youth
of the youth,
by the youth,
for the youth
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Thanks Cheers