14 February 2024 10:22
BWI denounces Myanmar junta’s mandatory military service targeting young people
The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), together with its trade union affiliates across Asia and the Pacific, expresses its vehement condemnation of the recent plan by the military junta in Myanmar to implement mandatory military service targeting the nation's young people. Weiterlesen...
07 February 2024 11:53
The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) extends its deepest solidarity and condolences to the people of Chile following the devastating impact of forest fires that struck the country on 2 February 2024. BWI stands in solidarity with the members of its affiliated unions: the National Confederation of Forestry Workers (CTF), the National Federation of Industrial Unions - Arauco Chile (FENASID), the Trade Union of Workers in Masisa Mapal Plant (FETRAMAS), and the National Intercompany Industrial Construction Workers Union (SINACIN), along with their families.Weiterlesen...
01 February 2024 01:24
Global Unions joins together in a Call for Unified Action Following ICJ Ruling on Gaza Genocide Case. Weiterlesen...
30 January 2024 06:43
In a recent meeting on 25 January 2024, the Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI) and the Trade Union Solidarity Centre of Finland (SASK) reaffirmed their commitment to advance progressive labour rights in Southern Africa. Weiterlesen...
29 January 2024 02:48
The Council of Global Unions (CGU) will organise a webinar on 1 February to update the international trade union movement on the situation in Myanmar, particularly the ILO COI Report and NUG Tripartite Accreditation Council, and coordinate strategies in the next ILO Governing Body meeting. Weiterlesen...
19 January 2024 00:27
BWI calls on its affiliates to send solidarity videos to the Argentinean comrades and to organise marches to the Argentinean embassies in their countries on 24 January to show our solidarity with the workers and trade unions who are fighting to defend their rights and democracy.Weiterlesen...
18 January 2024 12:22
The Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI), representing 12 million building and construction, wood and forestry workers from 361 trade unions in 115 countries globally, expresses its full support for the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) amidst its challenging collective bargaining negotiations with the Dubai Ports World (DP World). Weiterlesen...
14 January 2024 08:07
Two years since trade unions in Kyrgyzstan successfully fought the adoption of a law “on trade unions," which would have significantly restricted trade union rights in the country, they now face unprecedented pressure and interference from their government.Weiterlesen...
21 December 2023 13:17
The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) and LabourStart urgently call on you to join us in demanding that the Panamanian government respect the freedom of association and stop persecuting trade unions.Weiterlesen...