Happy International Working Women's Day, March 8

Dear women workers, our comrades in struggle,

Today we salute, across our whole family, the unshakeable will of women — who in every era of history have created the world with their labour — raised against exploitation and inequality. We greet 8 March not merely as a day of commemoration but as a day of resistance, on which we cry out "Equal pay for equal work, a secure future" across a vast field stretching from factories to offices, from fields to digital platforms.

The past year was one in which the heaviest burden of economic hardship was once again loaded onto women's shoulders, a period in which poverty became "feminised". But we know that the will of women — who refuse to pay the bill for the crises, who demand an account of their invisible labour in the home, and who stand in the front ranks of union organising — has the power to scatter every kind of darkness.

Our Struggle Knows No Borders!

Today, as women workers, we raise our voices not only in physical spaces but also against the pressure of being "reachable at all times" brought by digitalised working life, and against the insecurity imposed under the name of flexible working models.

The "care obligation" of women squeezed between home and work is not a favour; it is a public responsibility. From neighbourhood nurseries to workplace nurseries, from elder-care centres to paid parental leave, we will take back all our demands as rights, not favours.

We will not allow the laws against psychological harassment (mobbing) and violence in the workplace to remain on paper. In keeping with the spirit of ILO Convention No. 190, we will tighten our union oversight to build a violence-free working environment.

Wherever favouritism replaces merit, we stand against women's exclusion from management. Increasing women's representation in decision-making is not merely a question of quotas; it is a struggle for democracy.

Solidarity Sustains Life, Organisation Strengthens!

While continuing its legal follow-up of femicides, our union will press on without pause with education and organising work to root out gender-based discrimination in working life. We know that we are each other's remedy. The voice of one woman wronged in a workplace is the shared cry of all women.

This 8 March too, our demands are clear: secure work, a life free of violence and fair distribution! With our own hands we will build a world where our labour is not exploited, our identity is not suppressed, and we walk the streets without fear.

Long live women's solidarity! Long live 8 March!