From the Global Workers Study Conference held from October 28-30 in Kathmandu, Nepal comes a declaration of commitment to build a new platform for cooperation, the All Workers United. The formation of this new platform for cooperation is in direct response to the all out attacks against workers around the world who suffer from severe conditions of poverty and destitution.
Workers are under attack from all sides by the collusion of capital and governments. Insurmountable debt, soaring prices of housing and social services, excessive taxation, austerity measures, and skyrocketing prices on basic necessities drive down wages and drive up the cost of living to make workers poorer today compared to 15 years back. Unemployment and underemployment are rampant, pushing millions of people into informality and worse precarity, especially for women who carry multiple burdens to also care for their families while bearing brunt of the economic crisis. War and conflict erases jobs, livelihood and futures for our children.
This is the context in which it is more urgent than ever to build the power of the working people.
We will form All Workers United in the Global North and the Global South to coordinate the struggles of the workers, organize workers in every community and workplace, and hold capital and governments accountable to the poverty and destitution of workers and toilers.
We will form All Workers United and conduct solidarity at the local, national and global level. We will coordinate with other All Workers United, bring together worker organizations and associations, trade unions, migrant organizations, working women’s organizations, and other organizations of toilers from the Global North and the Global South. We will coordinate across countries and regions through the International Secretariat of the All Workers United.
We pledge our commitment to build All Workers United.
More than ever, the workers must realise the call: “All Workers, Unite!”
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List of Organizations who are committed to form All Workers United (AWU):
All Nepal Federation of Trade Unions
Aotearoa Philippines Solidarity
Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants
Asia Pacific Research Network
Association for the Rights of Household and Farm Workers
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan Hong Kong and Macau (BAYAN HKM)
Bayan Aotearoa NZ
BAYAN Asia Pacific
BAYAN USA
Beranda Migran
Bici Libre
BPO Industry Employees Network (BIEN Pilipinas)
Coalition of Agriculture Workers International (CAWI)
Filipino Migrant Workers Union ( FMWU)
Frente unido inmigrantes ecuatorianos
FUNREDES
Gabriela Aotearoa
Gabungan Serikat Buruh Indonesia
General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions
IBON International
ILPS Seattle
Immigrant Workers Centre
Independent Democracy of Informal Economy Association (IDEA)
Informal Sector Service Centre – Nepal
Initiatives for Workers Solidarity in Asia Pacific
Institute for Motivating Self Employment
Institute for National and Democracy Studies (INDIES)
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
International Migrants Alliance
International Migrants Alliance – US
International Women’s Alliance
KAAGAPAY NG MIGRANTENG PILIPINO SA THAILAND
Kafin Migrant Center (KMC)
Karamay ng Migranteng Pilipino sa Penang
Kasarani Social Justice Center
Kilusan ng Manggagawang Kababaihan
Kilusang Mayo Uno-KMU
Massage Parlor Organizing Project
MFMW
Migrant Thailand
Migrante
Migrante Alberta
Migrante Alberta
Migrante Australia
Migrante Australia
Migrante Canada
Migrante Intl
Migrante Japan
Migrante Melbourne
Migrante Middle East and Africa
Migrante Middle East, Network for Africa Concerns
Migrante NSW – Australia
Migrante Ontario
Migrante Thailand
Migrante sa UWMC
Migrante UK
Migrante United Kingdom
Migrante USA
Migrants Resource Centre Canada
Mitra Wacana
Nexperia Workers Union / KMU
Pakistan Kissan Mazdoor Tehreek (PKMT)
PCR Argentina
People Over Profit
People’s Artists Initiative
PILAR
PROGRESS
Roots for Equity
Society for Labour and Development
Southern Riders Association
StandUp Movement Lanka
Starbucks Worker’s United
Sulong UBC
Teamsters 117
Ugnayang Pilipino Sa Belgium
Union Network of Migrants
UNITE HERE 11
APALA
United Filipinos In Hong Kong (UNIFIL MIGRANTE-HK)
Vikas Adhayayan Kendra
Vinya Weaving Lab
Workers First Union New Zealand