12/30/2020 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/30/2020 00:50 Thailand: WFTU solidarity statement with the fishery workers The World Federation of Trade Unions, the militant voice of 105 million workers from 130 countries of the globe, support the fair struggle of thousand of fisheries workers from 22 provinces of Thailand who protested outside the agriculture ministry a few days ago. The protesters demand substantial support of the fishermen and fisherwomen who are seriously affected due to related regulations enacted since 2015 that destroying thousand legal and fishing people. In addition, the pandemic consequences and the big number of Covid-19 cases which are linked to a fish market outside Bangkok put in dangerous the lives and the jobs of migrants and local workers in the fishery.