26 February 2018 14:36
Nouveau Livre Blanc de l'OIT sur le secteur de la construction au Moyen-Orient
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 conditionsLire la suite...
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.Lire la suite...
26 February 2018 06:21
Furniture company Pizano SA has unilaterally initiated a secret process that has kept its Lire la suite...
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.Lire la suite...
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.Lire la suite...
17 February 2018 21:36
A press release issued by the affiliate of BWI, the Union of Construction Workers (SUNTRACS) of Panama reports a strike agreed by 5,000 workers of Minera Panama affiliated to this union "for massive layoffs and other labor situations and arbitrariness of the transnational" mining company.Lire la suite...
16 February 2018 17:24
Unite, the UK’s largest union, has won a potentially groundbreaking legal victory at the employment appeal tribunal (EAT) in the battle against bogus self-employment and the use of payroll companies.Lire la suite...
13 February 2018 01:37
A BWI delegation of construction workers attending the World Urban Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur (WUF9) on 7-13 February 2018 have demanded greater input into the process of urbanisation. Lire la suite...