05 June 2017 22:26
South Korean union leaders sentenced on politically-motivated charges
The Seoul Court of Appeal has just two trade union leaders to up to two-years prison time on charges of obstruction of business, simply for conducting rallies in trying to bring their employers to the bargaining table. Weiterlesen...
05 June 2017 22:23
A worker has died and others have been hospitalized, after a concrete structure fell on them while working on a tunnel in PyeongChang, South Korea. Weiterlesen...
05 June 2017 22:21
From 22nd to 23rd May a joint mission of BWI and Industri Energi visited Timber and Woodworkers Union – TWU of Ghana for a review meeting on the state of implementation of a o Project named “building bargaining capacity in the FURNITURE industry in GHANA”.Weiterlesen...
05 June 2017 22:17
Seventeen women trade union leaders and activists representing BWI affiliates throughout Europe conducted a two-day mission to Greece to provide solidarity to the Greek people Weiterlesen...
05 June 2017 22:12
On 24 May the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders demanded that the South Korean Government implement the recent Opinion of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) and immediately release Han Sang-gyun, President of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), a demand that is being echoed by the BWI. Weiterlesen...
05 June 2017 22:05
The global union federations Building and Wood Workers International (BWI) and IndutriALL jointly released a statement in solidarity to the victims and to demand from the government and the companies concrete actions to indemnify the victims and their families and to mitigate the damages caused by this accident.Weiterlesen...
05 June 2017 21:55
BWI Mission visits the Mega Highway Project Bar - Boljare on 6 of April 2017 in Montenegro to discuss about working conditions in the 43-km priority section (Smokovac – Matesevo) for which the Chinese EXIM Bank provided a loan of 800 Million Euro to the Government of Montenegro. Weiterlesen...
05 June 2017 21:52
The union particularly targets unions leaders, OHS committee members, company management and workers.Weiterlesen...
05 June 2017 21:49
PROFBUD Ukraine will conduct various activities on IWMD on 28 April 2017.Weiterlesen...