Mission & Vision
Key Focus Areas
A Living Wage
A living wage that enables workers to live with dignity.
Women Workers' Welfare
Centering the welfare of women workers, especially in the RMG sector, by ensuring safe workplaces, maternity benefits, and daycare facilities.
Leadership Development
Developing capacity and creating an enabling environment for women to take leadership roles in factories and the sector.
Awareness
Increasing awareness among workers, factory owners, and management regarding rights and responsibilities.
Social Dialogue
Enabling implementation of decent working conditions through dialogue between workers and factory management.
Labor Law
Establishing labor law to uphold laborers' rights.
Vision and Values
Human & Social Rights
To uphold and establish human, social, political, and economic rights, fostering moral and cultural advancement.
Islamic Beliefs & Harmony
Instilling firm belief in Islam, mutual harmony, law, fraternity, justice, and resistance to injustice.
Labor Safety and Dignity
Upholding the interests of labor safety, dignity, and employment rights.
Access to Legal Help
Providing workers with access to legal help and support.
Goals and Commitments
Union Collaboration
Encouraging collaboration between affiliated unions.
Increased Output
Fostering a mentality of increased output and responsibility.
Freedom of Speech
Establishing rights to freedom of speech and assembly.
National Workers Unity Centre believes that decent working conditions and better lives for workers are achieved and sustained when workers are aware of their rights and an enabling environment exists to exercise those rights. In order to facilitate this, NWUC focuses on six main areas:
- A living wage that enables workers to live with dignity
- Centering the welfare of women workers, who are the majority of the workforce in the RMG sector, by ensuring safe workplaces for women and implementation of provisions such as maternity benefits and daycare facilities
- Developing capacity and creating an enabling environment for women to take up leadership roles in their factories and the sector as a whole
- Increasing awareness among all stakeholders, including workers, factory owners and management on their rights and responsibilities to each other
- Enabling implementation of decent working conditions through social dialogue between workers and factory management
- Amplifying grassroots voices in policy processes through a research and advocacy agenda that is shaped by workers themselves
- Establishing labor law to uphold the rights of laborers
- To uphold and establish human, social, political, and economic rights while developing moral and cultural advancement.
- To instill in the laborers a firm belief in Islam, as well as mutual harmony, law, fraternity, cooperation, the establishment of justice, and resistance to injustice.
- To uphold the interests of labor safety, dignity, and employment rights.
- Providing labor-class people with access to legal help
- Should make an effort to initiate the International Labor Organization’s guidelines and conventions.
- To encourage collaboration between affiliated unions.
- To arouse the mentality of increased output among the workforce and to instill a sense of responsibility toward the state, the nation, and industrial organizations.
- Establish the rights to freedom of speech, religion, commerce, association, and assembly.
- Providing affiliated unions with a statutory right to strike
- To improve laborers’ professional qualifications and skills through training and education in ethics and professionalism.
- Setting labor pay based on the essentials, attempting to raise the standard of living, and putting regulations governing dividend payments into effect.
Our interventions contribute to at least one of these six domains of change, which in the long-run will contribute towards improved working conditions, stronger workers’ voice and leadership of women in Bangladesh and around the world.