Ephraim Kalsakau (or Éphraïm Kalsakau
["Mouvement de grève à Air Vanuatu : une trentaine d'arrestations"](_blank)
, Tahiti Presse, 9 December 2005) was a
ni-Vanuatu
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trade unionist and politician.
In 1987, he spearheaded the founding of the
Vanuatu Labour Party
The Vanuatu Labour Party (; ) is a political party in Vanuatu. The party was established on 3 June 1987. It was founded on the initiative of various trade union organizations in order to contest the 1987 Vanuatuan general election, 1987 parliamen ...
(VLP), to be the political arm of united trade unions. He has rejected the idea that "there is a major difference between the
Vanuaaku Pati and the
UMP", the country's two major parties.
In
2004
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Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
, he stood unsuccessfully for
Parliament
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as a VLP candidate in
Port Vila
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The population was 49,034 as of the 2020 census. In 2020, the population of Port Vila formed 16.3% of the ...
. In the
2008 general election, he was elected to Parliament, representing the VLP.
He is currently the secretary general of the
Vanuatu National Workers Union
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.
, ''Vanuatu Daily Post''], 22 April 2009
External links
"Le mouvement travailliste et politique"
Ephraim Kalsakau, ''in'' Howard Van Trease & Michelle Craw (eds.), ''La politique Mélanésienne'', Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific
The University of the South Pacific (USP) is a public research university with locations spread throughout a dozen countries in Oceania. Established in 1968, the university is organised as an intergovernmental organisation and is owned by the gov ...
(Institute of Pacific Studies), 1995, pp. 431–6
"Re: Comparisons by Chamber of Commerce and Industry and USP"
a letter to the editor of the ''Vanuatu Daily Post
The ''Vanuatu Daily Post'' is a newspaper published in Port Vila in Vanuatu. It is the only daily newspaper in Vanuatu.
In 1993, British journalist Marc Neil-Jones acquired the rights to publish the periodical ''The Trading Post'' and used it ...
'' by Ephraim Kalsakau, on the distortion of statistics relating to the rights and conditions of workers (13 December 2008)
References
Living people
Members of the Parliament of Vanuatu
Vanuatuan trade unionists
Trade union leaders
Vanuatu Labour Party politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
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