The ASEAN Services Employees Trade Unions Council (ASETUC) founded on 27th March 2007, is a network of trade unions in the ASEAN region to formulate and implement a consolidated trade union response to the fast moving development in ASEAN. It aims to anticipate and identify emerging trends and concerns in the liberalization of services under the ASEAN Economic Blueprint. ASETUC aims to promote harmonious and cooperative relations between workers and employers in the ASEAN through meaningful social dialogue. It is propagating the social partnership approach to union-employer relationship in order to promote decent work, productivity and competitiveness. ASETUC is actively propagating and encouraging its member-unions to adopt the philosophy of social partnership and social dialogue that recognizes that employers and workers have common interests in shaping the ongoing regional integration process. The ASETUC is also currently identifying best practices among ASEAN-based employers in order to give them due recognition. The ASETUC is currently deeply involved in three major concerns: the trade liberalization under the ASEAN Framework Agreement on Services (AFAS); labour migration and the rights of migrant workers and the ASEAN Framework Instrument on the Promotion and Protection of Migrant Workers and; occupational safety and health (OSH).

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