By Seth Galinsky March 1, 2021 Solidarity Trade Union of MyanmarWorkers in Yangon’s Shwepyithar Industrial Zone protest Feb. 17 against military coup and for better job conditions. Workers, unions are key component of protests against military rule. Despite arrests, internet shutdowns, and police and military assaults on demonstrators, protests against the Feb. 1 military coup in Myanmar continue. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets across the country Feb. 17, in response to the army’s ludicrous claim that most people support the coup. Workers and their trade unions have helped lead the fight against the coup. Hundreds of thousands of garment workers, railroad workers, flight attendants and air traffic controllers, miners, bus drivers, oil workers, bank tellers, fishermen, farmers, doctors and nurses, and government employees are on strike or have joined protests in cities and towns, large and small.