The Asia-Pacific Regional meeting of the WFTU held at Port Dickson,Malaysia on 26th October 2013 has formulated the following demands to campaign, organise and agitate to achieve:
1. Full employment for all, aiming towards eradication of poverty, with need based salary and wages and with full security including statutory pension for all.
2. Ratification and implementation of ILO Core Conventions including Right to Organise and Right to Collective Bargaining; unfettered trade union rights for all workers.
3. Stop Privatisation and dismantling of public Sector/ Public Services
4. Stop Sub-contracting, outsourcing and off-loading.
5. Protect sovereign rights of Nations as against imperialistic hegemony/market driven policy under WTO, WB, and IMF dictates.
6. Stop unjust imperialist interventions in Syria, DPR Korea, Iran, Afghanistan etc; Respect Self-determination of political system and self-reliant economic growth without the intervention of imperialists, financial and multi-national economic institutions.
7. Ensure women empowerment through various progressive policies and extend maternity benefits to all working women; provide equal wage for equal work with out gender bias.
8. Ensure working rights and social security for all migrant workers, as per UN Charter. Abolish ‘bonded labour’ in any form and guarantee alternate employment to them; Ensure protection of migrant workers by Governments.
9. Introduce comprehensive law for social protection, to protect the rights of informal workers including agricultural workers.
10. Stop degradation of environment in the name of development and protect natural resources for the benefit of mankind.
11. Ensure occupational safety, health, environmental protections of the workers and community; MNCs/TNCs should be subjected to implement the Code of Conduct strictly.
12. Stop job cuts, closures, layoffs and all atypical forms of employment including part-time employments.
13. Abolish Child labour and guarantee free, quality education to children.
14. Fight against communalism, religious fundamentalism and their pernicious methods that divide the working class.
15. ILO should shed its partisan attitude and treat all International trade Unions judiciously.
Struggles, more struggles, militant struggles and consistent struggles uniting the broader sections of the toiling masses, youth, unemployed, women and other vulnerable sections of the society shall be the silver line in our future movement.
The meeting also declared that the following International Days will be observed in 2014 to strengthen the unity amongst the various sections of the working class:
1. 08th March 2014 : International Women’s Day
2. 01st May 2014 : International Workers day
3. 12th June 2014 : Child Labour day
4. 03rd October 2014 : International Action Day
5. 18th December 2014 : International Day to protect the rights of Migrant workers.