05 March 2025 05:51
Breaking barriers: Advancing gender equality in the construction, building materials, wood, and forestry
Marta Pujadas, the Chair of the International Women's Committee of the Building and Wood Workers' International (IWC-BWI) reflected on the progress made over the past three decades since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Weiterlesen...
03 March 2025 02:59
New Traditional Women Professions: Breaking Barriers and Stereotypes
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26 February 2025 09:56
The Construction and Metal Workers' Union (CMWEU) in Mauritius began the year with a strong focus on remedying workers’ rights violations in Chinese multinational company (MNC), Beijing Construction Engineering Group Co. Ltd (BCEG). Weiterlesen...
24 February 2025 03:59
The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) latest assessment reveals a persistent and blatant disregard by Myanmar’s military junta for the recommendations made by the ILO Commission of Inquiry (COI). Weiterlesen...
16 February 2025 12:53
The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) Presidium, meeting in Geneva on 13-14 February 2025, expresses its unwavering solidarity with the Single National Union of the Construction and Similar Industries of Panama (SUNTRACS) and the working people of Panama in their just struggle against the privatization of the pension system, the regressive social security reforms being imposed by the government, and the excessive use of force by the state against protesting workers.
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13 February 2025 14:07
The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) stands in strong solidarity with Belgian trade unions and its affiliates AVC-CSC and FGTB-ABVV as they mobilise today against the brutal austerity measures announced in the hard-right government agreement.
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12 February 2025 08:48
The State Administration Council (SAC) has orchestrated a devious scheme to undermine the Confederation of Trade Unions Myanmar (CTUM) by promoting a puppet organisation, the Myanmar Labour Confederation (MLC).Weiterlesen...
06 February 2025 05:32
London, 4 February – The Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have formalised their collaboration by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at improving the labour, health and safety performance associated with EBRD operations and investments.Weiterlesen...
04 February 2025 03:29
The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), representing 12 million workers in construction, building materials, wood and forestry sectors affiliated to 351 trade unions across 117 countries, strongly condemns the escalating persecution, detentions, and inhumane deportations of migrant workers in the United States. Weiterlesen...