SMS Helps Fight Worker Exploitation

Faced with the employers' systematic breaches of both international standards and national labour laws, a trade union in the Phillipines is targeting young workers and using text messages as a campaign tool to counter employer hostility. Mike Grenville reports on 160characters.org.

... "The Union uses internet-based SMS service Chikka to send text messages for free to a lot of people at the same time. "You just go to an internet café and then send the same text messages to scores of workers through this technology" said Fos."

emily | 11:22 AM | SMS and Politics |
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