09 December 2023 07:02
Call for Action: 2023 International Human Rights Day
Fighting for human rights depends on unity, collective force, and concerted action. Whenever and wherever they are threatened, trade unions are there to defend them. There is no more powerful transformative force in our societies than organised workers. We can shift the balance of power at the workplace and in our communities through the power of collective solidarity and action. Weiterlesen...
04 December 2023 11:16
Under the theme "Workers' Power is Union Power/Union Power is Workers' Power," the Global Organising Academy (GOA) in Asia and the Pacific held its second general assembly of organisers on 26-27November 2023, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.Weiterlesen...
28 November 2023 14:45
BWI, from 20 to 24 November, conducted a week-long mission to Tanahu Hydropower Project’s 3 funded packages and various smaller energy projects in the Katmandu valley of Nepal.Weiterlesen...
28 November 2023 10:55
A team comprising BWI Assistant Education Secretary Jasmin Redzepovic, Jochen Schroth (Head of IG Metall’s Transnational Trade Union Policy Department), and Klaus-Dieter Winnerlein (first authorised representative of IG Metall West Central Franconia) conducted a social audit alongside representatives of the management at the Faber-Castell plant, including a supplier and dormitories for migrant workers from China, from 21 to23 November 2023 in Guangzhou, China.Weiterlesen...
21 November 2023 11:16
The Participatory Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting for the Africa and Middle East region of the BWI-UtoU-SBTF, held online on 13 November 13, 2023, was a successful collaboration by project stakeholders.Weiterlesen...
18 November 2023 09:09
The Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI) joins fellow global unions and federations in vehemently denouncing the appalling detention, kidnapping, and subsequent seven-year incarceration of MICS-TUsF General Secretary Thet Hnin Aung by the military junta in Myanmar.Weiterlesen...
17 November 2023 12:25
The ability of workers to form and join independent and autonomous trade unions without any interference is a pillar of democracy. In addition, in a global economy, denial of trade union rights, the use of forced and child labour and other abuses gives countries and companies unfair trade and investment advantages that can lower the standards for others.
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15 November 2023 05:37
BWI expressed interest and openness to the 21st International Conference of Labour Statisticians’ (ICLS) adoption of new standards on the informal economy, which it said could be a crucial tool to empower countries to collect more accurate data and implement effective policies for the approximately two billion workers globally engaged in the informal labour sector.Weiterlesen...
12 November 2023 14:17
At the extraordinary session of the International Labour Organization's Governing Body, the workers' proposal to present an advisory opinion to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding the incorporation of the right to strike as a safeguarded right under the ILO Convention N0. 87 on freedom of association was formally endorsed following a vote.Weiterlesen...