With very small financial support, during the first few years, TLC was successful in launching our Campaign for Labour Rights which started to become known as it learnt how to fight the corporations that were exploiting labour rights in Thailand. There was at first the Master Toy Campaign, then the Thai Durable Textile Campaign, then the ‘Letter to Tiger Woods’, and then the action that led to the reinstatement of 40 dismissed leaders of the Almond Union.
Our working principle was and is based on the ‘Worker’s Participation and Rights’ approach.
TLC’s successes would have been impossible without the help and support of all the many committed staff and volunteers who have joined TLC down the years. Here we must mention Naowarat Suuasa-ard, Saneh Hongtong, Suntorn Boonyod, Prapas Sansing, Sarayuth Jailak, Premjai Jaikla, Saner Boonthong, Numnual Yapparat, Pornphan Mankita, Mookdaluk Pasi, Pisut Boonthong and Jaruwat Kaeyunwan in 2008. TLC has always paid more than a minimum wage but never enough to provide staff with a comfortable life. TLC has never been able to promise more than ‘creative space, freedom and opportunity’.
The eight years of TLC has been eight years of learning, sharing and hard work for everyone. Of all those who came to work for TLC and have moved on in process of learning TLC remembers you all, and thanks every one of you, past and present, for your dedication and your contributions to the work of the Thai Labour Campaign.
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