16 August 2017 00:58
Mauritius: Mass demonstration against Chinese Contractors
The BWI affiliate in Mauritius, the Metal, Wooden & Related Industries Employees Union (CMWEU), held a mass demonstration in front of the Office of the Minister of Labour in Port Louis on 10th August 2017.Weiterlesen...
15 August 2017 09:41
Today the National collective agreement in construction and building materials sectors was signed between the Ministry for Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Communal Services of Ukraine and PROFBUD – Construction and Building Materials Industry Workers’ Union of Ukraine.Weiterlesen...
15 August 2017 04:04
On 4 August 2017, the Bayanihan ng Manggagawa sa Konstruksyon ng Qatar (BMKQ) – a Qatar-based organization of Filipino migrant workers – held it's 2017 General Assembly. Weiterlesen...
01 August 2017 00:55
Imprisoned trade union leader Han Sang-gyun (President of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions) has been honoured with the George Meany-Lane Kirkland Human Rights Award. Weiterlesen...
31 July 2017 07:57
Approximately four months after the signing of the precedential collective agreement for regulating the rights of crane operators, Labour and Welfare Minister Haim Katz signed the extension order that applies the conditions of the agreement immediately to all the crane operators and tower crane operators who are employed in the sector. For the Chairman of the Construction and Wood Workers’ Union, Yitzhak Moyal: "The crane operators can breathe easy". Weiterlesen...
31 July 2017 07:16
The Federation of Cement and Premixed Workers of Peru (FETRACEPPE) denounced, in a press release, a series of abuses and violations of labour rights perpetrated by companies in the sector against workers and the lack of attention and interest to solve this issue by Cement entrepreneursWeiterlesen...
31 July 2017 06:50
Within a year of activities, the Civil Society Council of the Labour Department (DT) decided to renew its presidency by appointing the union leader of the forestry sector, Jorge González Castillo.Weiterlesen...
31 July 2017 06:29
The Autonomous Trade Union of Wood and Forestry Workers of Serbia, SSPDS, held a workshop with representatives of local trade union organisations from the wood processing and forestry sector and various government representatives. Weiterlesen...
27 July 2017 15:44
According to the objectives stated in the agenda: visits to workplace in order to talk to union organizations in their headquarters, participate in meetings with employers and managers, analyze collective negotiation in Chile, and have a first-hand understanding of how daily union life in this country is in construction, construction materials and forestry sectors; the Brazilian Nilton Freitas, BWI Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Chilean Luis Salazar, BWI Project Coordinator in Chile, visited the cities of Santiago, Concepcion and Cabrero.Weiterlesen...