Dear Friends & Colleagues,
The Global Workers Study Conference 2025 held on October 28-30 in Kathmandu, Nepal, attended by over 116 participants from 21 countries, brought together the voices of workers, unionists, women, and migrants from the Global North and the Global South to share their lessons and insights as well as ideas and recommendations to further collaborate on the various issues and struggles of workers. A total of 28 panelists and resource speakers from around the world discussed various issues and topics, including informality, women and work, debt and wages, fascist attacks and how to build solidarity from among the ranks of the workers and other toilers.
From the GWSC 2025 comes a declaration of commitment to build a new global platform for cooperation, the All Workers United.
All Workers United (AWU), shall be a cooperation of 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. It shall be built with a minimum of at least 3 workers organizations/associations and trade unions to start. Its main functions will be to:
- Organize workers together across sectors and enterprises
- Coordinate workers struggles
- Hold capital and governments accountable to the plight and issues of working people and other toilers
All Workers United can have local, regional, national and global coordination. A secretariat shall be constituted to facilitate global coordination and collaboration among All Workers United in the countries and regions.
The formation of the All Workers United resulted from the unity points achieved at the GWSC reflected in the following statement:
GWSC Unity Statement:
All Workers, Unite!
Rise up, resist all-out attacks against our ranks, and fight for freedom from exploitation and oppression
We are suffering from severe conditions of poverty and destitution
Wages, jobs, social protection, and the welfare of working peoples’ families are under attack from all fronts 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.
In all sectors, in the Global North and in the Global South, it is a race to the bottom for the rights of workers. Exploitation is relentless, sacrificing the livelihood and life of workers in the interest of profits.
We are under attack from all sides
Capitalists and their protectors in governments are well-organized and coordinate to extract the most from workers and plunder every ounce of resources available. Their incessant competition for maximum profits leads to deadly wars, draining national budgets for social needs to bloat military budgets for war.
The exploiters are raising the ante of the struggle, enacting xenophobic policies, whipping up anti-migrant hysteria and attempting at every chance to divide and destroy the ranks of the working people to rake in more profits. They attack the people of the North and the South economically, politically, culturally and militarily, never hesitating to unleash fascist violence to extinguish the will to fight.
We will collectively fight back
To be a worker is to fight a system built on exploitation. To be a worker is to stand in solidarity with all who toil – from factories to shops to street corners, from construction sites to plantations to kitchens, from the formal workforce to the intermittent to the invisible.
Because we know that our unity and solidarity is our collective weapon against common enemies.
The ground rumbles from the millions marching in unity, brought together by our collective resolve. Our efforts to organize and lead our communities, our workplaces, our streets are bearing fruit. We are breaking the old power dynamics and re-shaping a new system of social relations.
We commit to raise our level of struggle
All workers, unite! Rise, with eyes open! Learn how every stock and venture of exploitation operates, and master how we can break the operations of capitalist exploitation and oppression.
We commit to build our strength
All workers, unite! Rise, standing shoulder-to-shoulder! Build power from the unity of all workers in every locality, build the unity of all workers’ organizations, and forge international solidarity across borders.
We commit to unite and fight
All workers, unite! Rise, with fists clenched and legs marching! Step towards the future free from oppression and exploitation. Unite to fight and win a bright future for humanity.
Therefore we commit to build All Workers United.
We look forward to further advancing the struggle of workers with you!
GWSC 2025
People Over Profit (POP)
International Peoples’ Front (IPF)
All Nepal Federation of Trade Unions (ANTUF)
General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT)
Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC)
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