[2] In September 1998, labour activists re-formed a national trade union movement in Rangoon (present-day Yangon).

[2] In 1998, Myo Aung Thant, an FTUB executive committee member, was sentenced to life imprisonment for labour organization activities within Myanmar.

[3] In 2003, three members of the FTUB, Nai Min Kyi, Yae Myint, and Naing Yatha, were sentenced to death for high treason.

The International Centre for Trade Union Rights reported that: "The ostensible reasons for their sentences were that they had attended FTUB training on the Myanmar–Thailand border, were relaying information on forced labour to the International Labour Organization, and had published an article in a Burmese magazine which uncovered corruption in the national football league.

[1] In July 2015, Myanmar's Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security officially registered CTUM as a trade union.