APRECON 2025 PSI Asia-Pacific Regional Action Plan: United to Fight Back in a World of Multiple Crises
The Regional Action Plan (RAP) 2025–2028 of PSI Asia-Pacific charts the region’s path for the next four years. It focuses on defending trade union rights, driving a just public-led energy transition, and strengthening organising power across sectors. The plan unites affiliates around the shared vision of "United to Fight Back for Public Services" — building equitable, democratic, and sustainable public services for all.
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Jyotsna Singh
At APRECON 2025 in Kathmandu, PSI affiliates from across the Asia-Pacific region adopted the new Regional Action Plan (RAP) 2025–2028, building on the 2019–2025 plan and aligning with PSI’s global Programme of Action 2023–2027. The plan outlines clear priorities for strengthening workers’ rights, advancing climate justice, and defending quality public services.
The RAP acknowledges that dominant political and economic forces increasingly view public service workers as a threat to their power. Across the world, authoritarians and billionaires are mounting unprecedented attacks on public services, workers, and PSI unions. In response, PSI has launched its global fightback campaign under the theme “Public Service Fightback." The RAP resonates the same theme.
The RAP calls for a just and equitable energy transition, driven by publicly owned and managed renewable systems. It emphasises organising young workers, building climate bargaining capacity, and integrating social dialogue into national transition policies.
A major focus is on trade union rights (TURs) — protecting unionists under attack, coordinating solidarity actions, and campaigning for ratification of ILO Convention 151 within the next five years. The plan also addresses the growing challenge of digitalisation, calling for fair AI governance, digital bargaining frameworks, and legal safeguards for workers’ rights in the tech-driven public sector.
Affiliates committed to fighting privatisation and promoting remunicipalisation by building alliances with civil society, producing multilingual tools, and highlighting the human rights benefits of quality public services. The plan includes strategies for organising precarious, migrant, and care workers, expanding gender equity initiatives, and linking economic justice to global tax reforms.
Across all areas, the RAP reinforces PSI Asia-Pacific’s shared mission: to build union power and deliver people-centred public services in an era of multiple crises — from climate change to digital exploitation — ensuring that workers and communities, not corporations, shape the future.