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 region as well as share different workers’ campaigns happening in different countries. The first WSC focused on informality and solidarity wherein panel presentations on informal work, gig economy, labor migration, and women in informal work took place and aided in comprehensively understanding the plight of workers from different countries in Asia Pacific. The WSC 2024 gathered a total of 30 participants from Australia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, New Zealand, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nepal, Hong Kong, and Pakistan.
The results of the first WSC highlights the glaring conditions of gig and platform workers, migrant workers, women in informal work, agricultural workers, and even refugees. They experience various forms of abuse and neglect from employers, agencies, and governments. Despite this, informal and formal workers continue to organize themselves and build campaigns to rally their demands for fair and just treatment.
Through the results of the WSC found in this document, it is hoped that we get to have a deeper understanding of informal and precarious work, and the intricacies of the challenges they face.
To know more about IWSAP and have a quick background on the WSC 2024 Results, watch our video here.
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