Category: News

A Show of Force: The success of the launch of IWSAP’s Workers’ Study Conference Results and its formation

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 that the Initiatives for Workers […]

IWSAP Launches the Workers’ Study Conference 2024 Results

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 situations of workers in the […]

Initiatives for Workers Solidarity Hosts Inaugural Study Conference on Informality and Solidarity in Asia-Pacific

Held from 23-24 November 2024, the conference focused on the theme: “Workers Study Conference on Informality and Solidarity: Solidarity Amidst the Changing Nature of Work in Asia and the Pacific.”

IWS-AP kicks off work for movement-building and solidarity

On November 24, the Initiatives for Workers Solidarity – Asia Pacific was launched in a solidarity program that closed the Workers Study Conference on informal labour.

NEXPERIA bosses sack four union officials

The sacking followed the retrenchment of more than 500 workers of the company in the past year in accordance with the bosses plan for cost optimization and automation.