Ephraim Kalsakau (or Éphraïm Kalsakau"Mouvement de grève à Air Vanuatu : une trentaine d'arrestations"
, Tahiti Presse, 9 December 2005) is a ni-Vanuatu trade unionist and politician. In 1987, he spearheaded the founding of the

Vanuatu Labour Party The Vanuatu Labour Party ( bi, Vanuatu Leba Pati; french: Parti Travailliste du Vanuatu) 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 ...

(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 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

, he stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a VLP candidate in Port Vila. 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 Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, République de Vanuatu; bi, Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is east of n ...

."Unelco staff strike"
, ''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 (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'' 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) {{Vanuatu-politician-stub