The Initiatives for Workers Solidarity in Asia Pacific (IWSAP) promotes unity of working people through advocacy, labour campaigns, research, education, knowledge sharing, and network building.
The IWSAP aims to build unity, support and promote solidarity of all workers for a common front for worker’s rights and wellbeing.
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
Statement from IWSAP on the recent win of Uber drivers in the New Zealand Supreme Court We at Initiatives for Workers and Solidarity in Asia Pacific (IWSAP) celebrates and honours the extraordinary courage of Uber drivers and Workers First Union on their landmark victory in the New Zealand Supreme Court.
Yesterday, August 29, Indonesian people launched mass actions in Jakarta condemning the outright and long-standing neglect of the Indonesian government on the demands of its people. The protest was a response to a government policy mandating wage increases for parliamentarians amidst unemployment, high inflation, and rising prices and taxes imposed
The Initiatives for Workers’ Solidarity in Asia Pacific (IWSAP) welcomes the agreement made at the recently concluded 113th Session of the International Labor Conference (ILC) to negotiate and work towards a binding convention on decent work in the platform economy in 2026 (See: proposed resolutions and conclusions from the ILC).
Our modernizing world has exposed to us the acute exploitation that workers have to face just to be able to make ends meet. Informal and formal workers alike in the Asia Pacific region alone are at the forefront of shouldering multiple personal and systemic burdens. It is in this context
Today, May 30, 2025, the Initiatives for Workers’ Solidarity in Asia Pacific (IWSAP) launches the results of its first Workers’ Study Conference (WSC) which was held in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2024. The WSC is an annual knowledge-sharing and discussion among workers’ organizations and advocates. It aims to showcase different
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
Statement from IWSAP on the recent win of Uber drivers in the New Zealand Supreme Court We at Initiatives for Workers and Solidarity in Asia Pacific (IWSAP) celebrates and honours the extraordinary courage of Uber drivers and Workers First Union on their landmark victory in the New Zealand Supreme Court.
Yesterday, August 29, Indonesian people launched mass actions in Jakarta condemning the outright and long-standing neglect of the Indonesian government on the demands of its people. The protest was a response to a government policy mandating wage increases for parliamentarians amidst unemployment, high inflation, and rising prices and taxes imposed
The Initiatives for Workers’ Solidarity in Asia Pacific (IWSAP) welcomes the agreement made at the recently concluded 113th Session of the International Labor Conference (ILC) to negotiate and work towards a binding convention on decent work in the platform economy in 2026 (See: proposed resolutions and conclusions from the ILC).
Our modernizing world has exposed to us the acute exploitation that workers have to face just to be able to make ends meet. Informal and formal workers alike in the Asia Pacific region alone are at the forefront of shouldering multiple personal and systemic burdens. It is in this context
Today, May 30, 2025, the Initiatives for Workers’ Solidarity in Asia Pacific (IWSAP) launches the results of its first Workers’ Study Conference (WSC) which was held in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2024. The WSC is an annual knowledge-sharing and discussion among workers’ organizations and advocates. It aims to showcase different
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
Statement from IWSAP on the recent win of Uber drivers in the New Zealand Supreme Court We at Initiatives for Workers and Solidarity in Asia Pacific (IWSAP) celebrates and honours the extraordinary courage of Uber drivers and Workers First Union on their landmark victory in the New Zealand Supreme Court.
Yesterday, August 29, Indonesian people launched mass actions in Jakarta condemning the outright and long-standing neglect of the Indonesian government on the demands of its people. The protest was a response to a government policy mandating wage increases for parliamentarians amidst unemployment, high inflation, and rising prices and taxes imposed
