The Initiative for Workers Solidarity in Asia Pacific

The Initiatives for Workers Solidarity in Asia Pacific is an initiative of the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM), based in Hong Kong, to promote unity of working people through advocacy, labor campaigns, research, cooperation and network building.

The Initiative for Workers Solidarity in Asia Pacific

The Initiatives for Workers Solidarity in Asia Pacific is an initiative of the Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM), based in Hong Kong, to promote unity of working people through advocacy, labor campaigns, research, cooperation and network building.

It is started by the APMM in the context of the rapidly deteriorating situation of all workers in the Asia Pacific due to the heightened implementation of neoliberal policies that primarily serve capital. Under this condition, the divide among workers – host and im/migrants, formal and informal, unionised and non-unionised – is exaggerated and utilized to blur the fact that all working people are impacted by the same bias that favors capital and businesses.

The IWSAP was initiated to support and further develop activities and programs that build unity and promote solidarity of all workers for a common front in the defense of worker’s rights and promotion of worker’s wellbeing.

It will be established as an NGO a regional civil society organization that will promote, facilitate and strengthen solidarity of all workers in the region across sectors, gender, industry and immigration status. It bridges communication, coordination and cooperation of different types of workers organisations to amplify and advance worker’s struggles for labor rights and people’s development.

Vision

Our vision is the unity of all workers in the Asia Pacific region working together to protect the rights of all workers, promote the wellbeing of working people, develop worker’s cooperation, and strengthen labor solidarity for the sector and with the people.

Mission

Our mission is to launch initiatives that facilitate and to launch initiatives that contributes in forging unity and solidarity of host and im/migrant workers in the Asia Pacific across nationalities and sectors to defend the rights of all workers in the Asia Pacific region.

Goals

Advocate

Generate support to campaigns and advocacy that address labour concerns in the national and regional level

Know

Build and share knowledge on the situation and aspiration of working people in the Asia Pacific region

Cooperate

Create spaces for all workers in the region to build unities, initiate cooperative and coordinated actions, and strengthen linkages

Link-up

Initiate activities to propel empowerment and linkages of women workers in the region.

Programmes

The following are the core programs of the organisation:

Labour Rights Advocacy
and Campaigns

Workers Education
and Research

Labour Cooperation
and Linkages

Organisation

IWSAP is led by a Regional Advisory Committee(RAC) composed of representatives from initiating organisations. The RAC meets quarterly – online, hybrid, and physical – to set policies, assess the work and create plans for IWSAP.

The IWSAP Secretariat will be established composing of a Coordinator and Programme staff.

The IWSAP office will be based in Thailand with the Coordinator and administrative staff while the programme staff are based remotely throughout the region.