A Workers Movement

The MCW is a movement of working  people.

The MCW Believes that:

• The speed and consequences of an increasingly Globalized economy affects workers worldwide. The growing mobility of capital and of companies relocating from country to country, from continent to continent, reducing labour costs and maximising profits leads to the radical restructuring of work, all too often to unemployment, and even to the elimination of workers' rights, and that this system divides up wealth and well being in an unequal way.
• Workers, the unemployed and those dependent on benefits share a common interest in struggling for a more just society.
• There is a need for a workers' movement to promote justice based on the values of equality, social justice and solidarity.

A Christian Movement

The MCW Believes that:

• The central focus is always the essential dignity of working men and women. This focus reflects the vision of the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Scriptures where God is imaged as creating men and women as the very image of God. It is with this vision in mind that the MCW wishes to give priority to all excluded people whose dignity is most endangered, the unemployed, women, those in the informal sector, in other words the most vulnerable so that their voices may be heard.
• As members of such movements we make a choice, as did Jesus, to give priority to the poor, and to all those on the margins of society. (LK 4/18-19) Today this is often referred to as a preferential option for the poor.
• This option strikes us as even more urgent today since the global decision-makers push an ever-greater number of people aside in their search for greater profits, and many traditional social organisations no longer have solutions to such changed circumstances or even end up ignoring the needs of those on the margins of society.
• The MCW promotes sharing and solidarity among workers: sharing of experiences, sharing of faith, and sharing of meaning. This sharing keeps them alive, sustains them, and brings them together in struggle.

An International Movement

• The MCW, lives as an international organisation of solidarity, through its membership of the World Movement of Christian Workers (WMCW) which is more than ever necessary to promote exchanges between, and the dissemination of accurate information among, working people to help them understand the new workings of the economy and of society.

• This is necessary if working men and women are to remain able to be a force for change and advancement for other workers whether in paid work or not, in the formal or informal sector, and regardless of whether they are members of trades unions or not.
• The WMCW is recognised as a Non-governmental organization (NGO),and has a consultative status to some United Nations Organizations (International Labour Office, UNESCO, ECOSOC.