20 March 2023 10:20
Türkiye: Workers fight union busting in ORGE Furniture
As a form of retaliation, ORGE Furniture unlawfully fired seven (7) members of the BWI-affiliated Turkish Wood and Paper Industry Workers' Union (AGAC-IS) after the union organised the majority of the company’s workers and won official recognition.Lee mas...
14 March 2023 11:12
La Internacional de Trabajadores de la Construcción y la Madera expresa su gran preocupación por el despido del dirigente sindical Dariusz Kawka en la fábrica de IKEA Industrie en Lubawa, Polonia.Lee mas...
13 March 2023 04:05
El 8 de marzo, tres dirigentes de la rama de trabajadores de la construcción de Gyeonggi Midwest del Sindicato Coreano de Trabajadores de la Construcción (KCWU) fueron detenidos y acusados de supuesta perturbación de la actividad empresarial tras celebrar una concentración que pretendía la aprobación de su convenio colectivo.Lee mas...
13 March 2023 03:42
Thousands of people poured onto the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia to protest a proposed measure that seeks to equire all organisations that receive more than 20 percent foreign funding to register as “foreign agents” or face big fines.Lee mas...
07 March 2023 15:26
On the eve of this year’s International Women's Day, the French affiliates of BWI have once again took to the streets all over France to protest a pension reform project that is detrimental to women workers. The protesting workers underscored women workers’ salaries and pensions, which they said remain lower than those of men.Lee mas...
07 March 2023 07:03
The Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) on March 4 launched a big demonstration against President Kais Saied’s authoritarian rule. Lee mas...
02 March 2023 07:47
Peru’s trade unions held a general strike last 9 February to protest a parliamentary coup last December that put an end to the one-and-a-half-year presidency of democratically-elected President Pedro Castillo. The workers demanded the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, who replaced Castillo, as well as the conduct of fresh elections, and the enactment of a new constitution.Lee mas...
27 February 2023 10:15
The 12 million-strong Building and Wood Workers’ International’s (BWI), through its General Secretary Ambet Yuson, sends its solidarity and support to the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions (KFCITU) and its affiliate, the Korean Construction Workers’ Union (KCWU) as they hold a massive demonstration against their government’s assault on trade union rights. Lee mas...
26 February 2023 15:16
The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) expresses its full support for the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions (KFCITU) and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) as they collectively push back against their government’s continuing assault on trade union rights, particularly the right to associate, organise and collectively bargain.Lee mas...