Thai Government ‘Lacks Interest’ in Solving Burma Migrant Labor Abuse – The Irrawaddy, January 31, 2014
…Finnwatch said its primary objective was to persuade Finnish retail supermarket companies not to do business with the Thai firms, or else to bring pressure on them to treat their migrant workers properly.
Despite the scale of the rights problem and the broad international trade implications, Vartiala said there had been no response from the Thai government…
Thai Government ‘Lacks Interest’ in Solving Burma Migrant Labor Abuse
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Yah, how about Mahachai, a fishermen town which has become effectively the new Burmese city outside Burma? To be fair, those Burmese families have shown that they are even more diligent that Isan folks who used to work as fishermen before.
http://www.manager.co.th/Daily/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9570000012839
The fact that the Thai govt takes no interest in the subject is indicative that they haven’t yet learned how to profit from it. They probably will eventually – de facto PM Thaksin being the superhero humanitarian entrepreneur that he always is.