NATIONAL WORKERS CONGRESS

The National Workers Congress (NWC) was established in 1947 under the name of National Union of Labour as a Plantation Workers Trade Union. It was renamed afterwards as the National Workers Congress and was registered under the Trade Union Ordinance of 1920. The National Workers Congress is a non-political independent and democratic trade union movement which was previously affiliated regionally to the Brotherhood of Asian Trade Unions (BATU) Manila Philippines and internationally to the World Confederation of Labour (WCL) Brussels, Belgium and at present regionally affiliated to the International Trade Union Confederation - Asia Pacific (ITUC-AP) internationally to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).

The NWC has a nation wide net working system with permanent centres situated all over the country except North and the Free Trade Zones. The main objective of the NWC is uplifting the quality of life of the worker socially, economically and spiritually, not only as a Trade Union Movement but as a Trade Union social movement as well. Protection of workers rights, social security mechanism, decent work agenda, social dialogue, worker education, eradication of poverty, are some of the major concerns of the NWC. It has established island wide trade federations covering trade sectors.