05 March 2018 13:34
ICM presenta quejas en relación con los Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de Tokio 2020
On 1 March the BWI filed two complaints with the Tokyo Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (TOCOG), alleging separate instances of workers’ rights violations. Lee mas...
05 March 2018 11:53
Inspired by the new BWI Global Strategic Plan 2018-2021, BWI East Africa affiliates from Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia planned new strategies during a three days’ workshop from 20th to 22nd February 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting was attended by Rosa Van Wieringen FNV Mondiaal policy advisor, Sandra Juarez, Lobby and Campaign assistant and others FNV Consultants from South Asia and from East Africa; as well as BWI Africa and Middle East Regional Representative Crecentia Mofokeng and the BWI Assistant Secretary for Education Jasmin Redzepovic from Geneva head office.
The workshop helped to develop a Theory of Change and new strategies that will be implemented under the programme “Organizing Workers at International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and MNCs Infrastructure Projects in East Africa”, a BWI four-years programme (2017-2020) supported in partnership with FNV Mondiaal, from the Netherlands has been launched.
The new programme strategies will strengthen the nature and character of East Africa sub region, through more multilateralism in its approach on issues like IFIs, MNCs, campaigns for National Governments to effectively enforce Core Labour Standards (CLS), gender and youth and strengthening the Trade Unions and their centers to act on decent work issues in construction and building sectors.
Addressing the participants at the planning workshop, the BWI Regional Representative Crecentia Mofokeng said that the new programme emphasis is to strengthen national campaigns for promotion of decent work and building regional and international coordinated campaigns for IFIs. Through the implementation of the project activities the East Africa unions will push to integrate CLS in new CBAs and Labour Laws and for MNCs to implement Global Framework Agreements and OECD standards.
The participants visited a Standard railway construction site being operated by a Chinese firm, China Communications Construction Company limited who is a leading global provider of major infrastructures mainly engaged in investment construction and operation of transport, infrastructures equipment manufacturing, real estate and urban complex development.
The affiliates agreed on forward looking strategies for collective and individual country actions for the next four years, that will use new ways of organizing and mobilizing members to campaign and tackle the insurmountable challenges of workers.
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27 February 2018 11:08
The Building and Furniture Worker´s Federation of Paraná (FETRACONSPAR) is the first entity affiliated with in Building and Wood Workers' International in Latin America and the Caribbean to receive its "Certificate of Affiliation",Lee mas...
26 February 2018 14:36
A new ILO White Paper is released today by the Regional Office for Arab States, addressing two key challenges in the construction industry in the Arab States – how to ensure that workers are paid on time and that they are protected from unsafe working conditionsLee mas...
26 February 2018 07:19
Since beginning to organise a union in December 2016, 22 workers from Transporte Noroccidental CIA. Ltda. have been progressively dismissed.Lee mas...
26 February 2018 06:21
Furniture company Pizano SA has unilaterally initiated a secret process that has kept its Lee mas...
23 February 2018 10:32
After four days of intense negotiations, the 5,000 striking workers of the Cobre Panama mining project managed to see the conflict resolved by the signing of an agreement between the Union of Construction Workers (SUNTRACS) of Panama and the Canadian company FQM Construction and Development S.A., part of First Quantum Minerals.Lee mas...
18 February 2018 14:38
A contract worker lost his life in an accident on 27 January 2018 in the Chandrapur district, at the Maratha Cement Works plant of Ambuja Cement Ltd, owned by the cement giant LafargeHolcim. The company is yet to release the fatality figures for 2017, but in 2016, 86 workers were killed at LafargeHolcim operations worldwide.Lee mas...