Ema Druavesi

{{short description|Fijian politician}}

Ema Druavesi is a former Fijian trade unionist and politician.

Druavesi was born in Suva and educated at the Fiji Institute of Technology.{{cite book |title=Fiji: Race and Politics in an Island State |author=Michael C. Howard |publisher=UBC Press |location=Vancouver |year=1991 |page=391-392 }} She worked as a laboratory assistant at the University of the South Pacific and in 1982 became president of USP's staff union. She stood unsuccessfully as a coalition candidate in the Fijian electorate of Kadavu–Tamavua–Suva Suburban in the 1987 Fijian general election. In 1989 she formed the Fiji Garment Workers Union,{{cite book |url=https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/133560/1/PHA_Lines_Across_the_Sea.pdf |title=Lines Across The Sea |chapter=Pathway to Modernization: Fiji's Garment Revolution |author=R. T. Robertson |editor1=Brij V. Lal |editor2=Hank Nelson |publisher=Pacific History Association |location=Brisbane |year=1995 |page=147 |access-date=10 February 2023}} and campaigned against low wages and sweatshop labour in Fiji's garment industry.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-342817724/view?sectionId=nla.obj-352785990 |title=Controversy over Fiji sweat shops |work=Pacific Islands Monthly |volume=60 |issue=6 |page=22 |date=1 June 1990 |access-date=10 February 2023 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/259557837 |title=Fijians workers paid only 9 cents per hour |work=Tribune |page=4 |date=2 May 1990 |access-date=10 February 2023 |via=National Library of Australia}}

She later became general secretary and spokesperson for the nationalist Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei party.{{cite news|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/159168/fiji-parties-query-government-about-moon-entry-ban |title=Fiji parties query government about Moon entry ban |date=11 December 2005 |publisher=RNZ |access-date=10 February 2023}} Following the 2006 Fijian coup d'état she pledged her support to the FijiFirst party.{{cite web |url=https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/former-politicians-show-support-to-fijifirst-party/ |title=Former politicians show support to FijiFirst Party |publisher=FBC News |date=5 July 2014 |access-date=10 February 2023}}