The Autonomous Workers' Confederation (Bulgarian: Автономна Работническа Конфедерация, romanized: Avtonomna Pabotnicheska Konfederatsiya) is an independent autonomist and syndicalist trade union in Bulgaria. It is chaired by Mergul Hassan, a former female employee of the Piccadilly supermarket chain.^[1][2]

The AWC is headquartered in the coastal city of Varna and claims to have large union sections in Bulgaria's major cities, specifically among the medical, arts and IT sectors, though it does not specify how many members its sectors and affiliates have.^[3]

The union has no employees of its own, as it rejects "professional syndicalism" and instead entirely relies on contributions of the members of its sectors to fulfil its goals.^[3]

Unlike other Bulgarian labour unions, such as the much larger and well-established Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria, the AWC rejects representation in the Tripartite commission between the Bulgarian government, labour unions and chambers of commerce.^[1][2]

Though it has expressed a rejection of what they dub "syndical bureaucracy", it has nevertheless agreed to work with the country's more traditional labour unions in creating a "network of solidarity and cooperation between everyone involved in the struggle".^[1][2]

It has defined its key goals and objectives as:^[1][2]

• An immediate and "unsymbolic" increase in incomes (wages, pensions, state aid and child benefits)
• Lowering the retirement age and reforming the pension system
• Universal health care
• Free, Secular and Universal education
• Opposition to austerity, privatization, economic liberalization and deregulation
• Socialization of all public utilities, such as power, water, heating and transport