24 August 2020 09:49
BWI on the passing of Ram Nagina Pandey
BWI is saddened over the passing of Ram Nagina Pandey, General Secretary of the Eastern Railway Construction and Contractor Mazdoor Union (ERCCMU) on the evening of 20 August in Kolkata, West Bengal, India due to cardiac arrest. He was not well for quite some time and was even hospitalized.
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20 August 2020 06:10
The second leg of BWI’s “IKEA Workers’ Caravan of Stories,” a campaign to enable IKEA workers in different countries to share with one another their working lives and experiences, brings us to PT Integra Indo Cabinet located in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia. Weiterlesen...
18 August 2020 11:43
BWI, on behalf of its 12 million trade union members worldwide, expresses its full solidarity and support to Belarus’ brave trade unionists and workers who went on strike and launched massive peaceful actions to protest the alleged massive electoral fraud in their country. Weiterlesen...
17 August 2020 04:47
Undeterred by the COVID-19 pandemic, 27 trade unions in South Asia joined BWI in marking this year’s International Youth Day by calling for decent, safe and permanent jobs for all.
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12 August 2020 08:59
Coinciding with India’s commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi’s call to British colonisers to “quit India” on 9 August 1942, different workers and trade unions staged a nationwide protest against the government’s plan to privatise public utilities and suspension of labour laws under the pretense of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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10 August 2020 13:23
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), an international financial institution affiliated with the World Bank Group, accepted BWI’s complaint against the IFC-funded Karot Hydropower Project in Pakistan over gross violations of workers’ rights. Weiterlesen...
10 August 2020 06:05
Young trade union members of the General Agriculture and Plantation Workers' Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ) showed their dancing skills as they joined the call for decent, safe and secure jobs on 12 August, International Youth Day.
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06 August 2020 07:12
BWI’s International Youth Committee launches a video as a build up for its celebration of the International Youth Day on 12 August where it will call for decent, safe and regular jobs for all. Weiterlesen...
04 August 2020 06:14
It is with deep regret that BWI announces the untimely death of Mohammed Fermin, General Secretary of FKUI, Indonesia. Weiterlesen...