15 October 2019 13:18
Entretien avec Pauline Lewis, BITU
Carrie out by LAC region.Lire la suite...
15 October 2019 02:13
From 2 September to December 2019, the BWI Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (BWI LAC Region) is developing a solidarity campaign in support of the Cuban people called: #UnblockCuba.Lire la suite...
13 October 2019 14:54
Trade unionists, Indigenous people, students, peasants, teachers and public workers are protesting in Quito and other cities across Ecuador against austerity measures announced by President Lenin Moreno. 700 have been detained, at least four killed and dozens injured. Lire la suite...
11 October 2019 15:21
The Confederation of Workers of Public and Private Sectors (CTSP) is the national center of CMWEU, BWI’s affiliate in Mauritius. The CTSP and its affiliates’ 16-year struggle to improve the living and working conditions of workers in Mauritius resulted in an astounding victory. Since February 2009, the trade union movement in Mauritius have been fighting for better protection of workers, when much of their rights were taken away with the introduction of an anti-workers’ Labour Law in 2009.
Lire la suite...
11 October 2019 13:16
11 October 2019 – After Canakkale Forestry Directorate applied for FSC certification, TARIM ORMAN-IS, the only Turkish member of FSC International, was invited to comment on the Directorate’s activities by Soil Association in the pre-examination process.Lire la suite...
10 October 2019 10:17
After the 32-day strike of 2016 led by SINTEC/FETRACOMA, an organization affiliated to BWI in Chile, construction workers are again forced to start an indefinite strike, this time, against STRABAG's proposals in the Alto Maipo Hydroelectric Project.Lire la suite...
10 October 2019 09:38
Under the banner of “Together for Tomorrow in Solidarity and Justice” the 478 delegates of the 24th ordinary Congress of IG Metall, Germany, held on 6-9 of October 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany, re-elected Jörg Hofmann with 71 percent of votes as First Chairman. Christiane Benner was elected with 87 percent of votes as Second Chairman and Jürgen Kerner as the treasurer of IG Metall with 95 percent of votes. Ralf Kutzner, Wolfgang Lemb, Irene Schulz, and Hans-Jürgen Urban were re-elected as managing directors of IG Metall. Lire la suite...
10 October 2019 09:25
The Global Power Trade Union (GPTU) held its 6th Congress in Washington, D.C., United States from 6 to 9 October 2019, hosted by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, under the banner of Global Perspectives and Global Objectives. More than 70 representatives from trade unions representing workers in the electrical industry including BWI affiliates such as the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, the Danish Union of Electricians, and UNITE the Union, participated in a series of discussions with the goal of “striving to be more inclusive and complete.”
Lire la suite...
08 October 2019 11:55
UNITE the Union, has stepped up its campaign against union busting practices of Costain SKANKSA Joint Venture (CSJV) with a series of demonstrations. Lire la suite...