Trade unionists in many countries continue to face imprisonment, dismissal and discrimination, while legal obstacles to trade union organizing and collective bargaining are being used to deny millions of workers their rights.
Once again Colombia was the deadliest country for trade unionists, with 99 murders, and hundreds of death threats. In the Middle East, where trade unions are totally banned in some countries. Government interference in trade union affairs was a feature in several countries, including in former Soviet states. On the African continent, the Cameroon government continued efforts to divide the union movement by favouring workers' organizations which it saw as being easier to control whilst refusing to register trade unions which it saw as too independent.
Globalization has encouraged employers to disregard fundamental workers' rights and to use brutal force making the international trade union action never more relevant.
BWI is frequently requested to address protest messages to anti-democratic governments or anti-union companies. Information Technology (IT) will facilitate affiliates' solidarity tasks in the next weeks by creating solidarity online campaigns. If you join our solidarity chain, international trade union solidarity will make a difference for arrested workers, on strike or sacked!
(23/8/2010)
Solidarity Campaign Cambodia: ACT NOW! Workers at KC GECIN Enterprise in Cambodia are sacked
The Building and Wood Workers Trade Union of Cambodia (BWTUC) has been organizing construction and wood workers in various construction projects, cement manufacturing, brick factories and construction companies. Recently, it has been organizing workers at KC GECIN Enterprise in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. KC GECIN Enterprises, which is a local construction company owned by Cambodian national, Mr. Kim Chhean, has two main construction producing sites, employing over 160 workers. On August...
(12/7/2010)
Australia: ACT NOW! Support Ark for a safe working environment
"In the past, we have looked to Australia as a reference point for upholding human rights and respecting workplace standards. But today, workers who oppose poor safety onsite in Australia face massive fines and/or imprisonment for objecting or failing to speak with the ABCC - Australian Building and Construction Commission. Now Ark Tribe, a CFMEU member, faces court on 15 June 2010 and if convicted, faces a possible six months imprisonment." says Ambet Yuson, general secretary of the BWI. He...
(8/4/2010)
ACT NOW! Solidarity Campaign El Salvador for ILO conventions
In a message addressed to the Minister of Labour and Social Welfare of the Republic of El Salvador, the BWI is concerned about the non respect of international conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO). The BWI has organized an online campaign and sent a letter on 9 March 2010. Act NOW! The ILO Convention 87, despite having been ratified in 2006, still has no practical application. For example, there are still dismissals of workers who try to form unions. In recent years...
(30/3/2010)
ACT NOW! Support the workers of Chile
BWI is reaching out to its affiliates and solidarity support organisations requesting urgent financial support so that this can be sent urgently to Chile to solve the most urgent needs. The organisation is also looking into the possibility of sending a solidarity mission to the country for a further assessment of the situation and the needs of all its affiliated unions in Chile. About one month has now passed since the wave of devastation hit Chile – first an earthquake of 8.8 on the Richter...
(2/3/2010)
Solidarity campaign: ACT NOW! The EU reaches trade deal with Colombia
"The European Union reached a free trade deal with Colombia and Peru on 1st of March 2010 that will fully liberalise commerce in some sectors between the 27-country bloc and the two Latin American nations. The deal is part of an effort by the EU to reach a free trade agreement with the Andean Group of countries. In such a context BWI will continue to raise concerns on the issue of human and trade union rights for Colombian civilians," said Ambet Yuson, general secretary of the BWI. "We cannot...
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