Pushing
onwards: The resurgent Thai labor movement and May
Day 2004 - The Irrawaddy,
May 1, 2004
...This development is a big change from previous
union campaigns against privatization, when previous
governments in the early and mid-1990s successfully
smeared union campaigns as "self-interested"
efforts by the workers to protect their pay packets
and privileges at the expense of the wider interests
of the public.
The unions and their allies have now turned the tables
on the government. After the partial privatizations
of the Petroleum Authority of Thailand and the Airports
Authority of Thailand, in which the families of leading
members of the ruling Thai Rak Thai Party, or TRT,
got the lion’s share of cut-rate shares on offer,
the unions have convinced the general public that
privatizing EGAT through listing on the Stock Exchange
of Thailand is more of the same elite "policy
corruption".
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