CHRISTIAN WORKERS’ MOVEMENT – INDIA was started by Cardinal JOSEPH CARDIJN in 1966 for the overall development of the workers in India. The Movement members are supporting the upliftment of unorganized workers. In particular, four types of workers are given more priority 1. The farmers, 2. The construction workers, 3. The women workers, and 4. The migrants. As they are denied adequate No security in the workplace, healthcare, nutrition, housing, and sanitation, most of the laborers are not earning half the minimum wage, have No guaranteed job, no pension, no paid leave, etc.
With Cardijn Methodology “See, Judge and Act”. CWMI aims to work and bring “Social Transformation of Society by Working with Poor and Oppressed, Who Need to be Liberated”.
It has already taken firm steps by implementing Social Security Schemes available with the Government Welfare Board and 40,149 Informal workers are enrolled in the schemes. COVID-19 has shattered the economy and the living conditions of the workforce particularly in the unorganized sector, the business class leaped downward in many small, medium and even large factories. They have to close down due to huge losses, leaving thousands of workers jobless. In this background CWM-India taking up the challenge to re-discover and execute the methodology of organizing, empowering the poor people, and bringing a social change for a dignified life. This is the time, when we all as a single human family in solidarity with other like-minded movements and world solidarity movements face this situation and bring back normal, work for decent labor, work for the dignity of life, work for just transition, and Ecology.