WORLD DAY FOR DECENT WORK - 7 OCTOBER 2023 LABOUR SITUATION AND THE NICARAGUAN
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“Decent work is productive work that provides fair income, rights, social protection and supports sustainable economic growth. It is a source of dignity and the foundation of peace, social justice, greater equality”, this is what we find on the ILO website. This year, Nicaragua is witnessing the reality experienced by its population on this subject. Following them, we invite all movements to seize this day to take up this question.
The country is experiencing a strifling and distressing overview for the Economically Active Population (EAP) who aspires to have a decent work and fair wages which fulfills all the basic needs and the expectations that an average family can have in Nicaragua.
At this moment, the economically active population of the country is 3.6 millions of people of which only a quarter part of it has a formal job, the rest of population is underemployed or has an informal job from which they earn some income to support their families.
In general, the population recognises that the lack of employment is the main problem facing Nicaragua.
Europe Day 2022: Statement of European Christian Workers Movement (ECWM)
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Europe, the war, God, people
In this year 2022, we will celebrate Europe Day (9 May) against the terrible backdrop of the war in Ukraine.
What can we Christians say?
As was also the case with COVID, it seems that the drama in Ukraine is once again raising questions about God, life and the human being. What is God doing in the face of all this? Where is God in the face of those empty streets, populated only by corpses, some with their hands tied behind their backs? Where is God in the face of those mothers desperate because they do not know how to free their children from panic, hunger or suffering beyond their little strength? How is it possible that God allows what is happening in Ukraine today? Or what happened in the various Auschwitzes of yesterday.
We want to be Christians and witnesses of the proposal of salvation and liberation that Jesus Christ offers to society and the world of work, but the people around us present us with these questions.
The problem of the "silence of God", Christians have had to endure since the beginning of time.
Final Declaration of the Lourdes General Assembly of WMCW - Lourdes 2023
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From 24th to 31st March, 2023, 75 delegates representing to movements affiliated to World Movement of Christian Workers, from 25 countries from four continents, met in Lourdes (France), on the occasion of its XIV General Congress.
Under the slogan “Social justice for an economy of life”, we shared workers’ lives of our countries and regions. Using the method See-Judge-Act, we analysed the causes ot the different situations denounced and we decided on the actions to be taken in the global movement and in the local movements.
We have confirmed that the main cause of the dehumanising situations who live workers all over the world is the same one: the unbridled pursuit of profit by the few. This race for money is not only devastating for the human beings, but also it is destroying the environment and depredating the Mother Earth. The whole future of humanity is at stake.
This congress held in France, in the midst of social and trade union mobilisation, we have shown our solidarity with the French workers who are fighting for to respect of their labour rights, threatened by the current government who intends to increase the retirement age and thus to undermine their quality of life,
The migrant situation also drew our attention, especially the youth that, without future in their countries, is forced to leave to other horizons. In these migrations, they are sometimes endagered to die, leaving their families in debt, as happened recently with the tragic fire in a so called “temporary” centre in Juarez City,Chihuahua, Mexico, where 40 Guatemalan migrants died.
We have also highlighted the admirable work of all those people and, particularly of those women, who with their entrepreneurial spirit and initiative are trying to generate independent employment, to find better living conditions in their country.
We also encourage to men and women, driven by their faith in risen Christ, to continue their struggle for greater justice, equality and fraternity. In this sense, we also want to encourage to the youth all over the world to keep fighting for a more just world and to build themselves a future.
Concluding, we have made our own, pope Francis’s words, about “the need to create a new economy of friendship with the earth and an economy of peace”, “to transform an economy that kills into an economy of life”.
May Jesus Worker and Virgin of Lourdes give us light and strength to keep fighting for a social justice and an economy of life,
Lourdes, on 31st March, 2023
