WMCW MESSAGE ON 1st MAY 2023 : "REMEMBERING - REFLECTING- CONTINUING THE STRUGGLE"
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On 1st May, 1886: a great day of mobilisation in all the factories of Chicago (United State) to demand the 8-hour working day. This strike set the basis for the struggle to change the labour and living conditions of workers all over the world, which is still going on today.
In fact, activists of WMCW movements find today with many workers and their families who experience very difficult living conditions due to the precarious work and low wages. Some do not eve have the bare minimum to survive. In some countries, such as Dominican Republic, the social security system only serves to enrich the intermediaries known as “Administrators of Health Hazards” and the Pension Funds which do not guarantee any illness coverage or a fair income in retirement or unemployment. The poorest are excluded from the system.
The economic policy, combined to the post pandemic situation, benefits only one group, while the most of the population can only cover a minimum of the basic family basket of goods. According to UN, the economy in the differente regions in the planet, is not all favourable. It states that for Latin America and the Caribbean, the economic outlook is complicated by the external international conditions that are normalising the macroeconomy, and by a high persistent inflation.
New technologies cause the suppression or devaluation of certain types of jobs, pushing many peopel into the informal economy without any kind of protection or security.
7th October: Workers Worldwide Struggle for a Universal Basic Income
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“But let justice roll on like a river,righteousness like a never-failing stream!”
(Am 5:24)
7th October has to be an imperative framework in the fight for decent work, as proposed by the ILO - International Labour Organization. In the light of advances in technology, we affirm that work, today and in the future, can be carried out in freedom and creativity, has to correspond to the needs of people and communities, it needs to respect the environment and the natural resources and must be a factor of cohesion, integration and fair distribution of wealth.
We, the activists of the World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW), express our concern, indignation and disquiet at the way the dominant political and economic classes lead to the social and labour crisis that devastate the workers in the world and affect to the population without distinction, but especially to the most impoverished. With high unemployment rates, increasingly precarious employment, labour rights and social protection in regression in so many countries and nonexistent in many others, we are a voice of denunciation and commitment in the fight against the devaluation of human labour and to the discard of the workers.
March 8th: International Day of Women's Rights
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A day strongly rooted in the history of working movement.
In 1910 in Copenhagen, during the 2nd International Socialist Women’s Conference, which gathered to a hundred of women from 17 different countries, the idea of an “An International Women’s Day” was adopted.
The first International Women’s Day was celebrated the next year, on 19th March 1911, to demand women’s right to vote, to work and the end of her discrimination at work.
On 25th March, a fire during a seamstresses’ strike at a Triangle Shirtwaist textile mill in New York kills to 140 of the 500 workers, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, locked inside the factory. Some of them were only 14. This tragedy, linked to the exploitation of working woman, had a strong impact and later, it was commemorated during the International Women’s Day, that, then, it was linked women’s fight to working movement.
