
(31/7/2010)
UNFF workshop in Ghana: Applying sustainable forest management to poverty reduction
(27/7/2010)
Africa: 3F Construction meeting focuses on strategy and research mapping
(26/7/2010)
Europe: No austerity. Priorities for jobs and growth
Under the slogan "No austerity. Priorities for jobs and growth", the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) will organize on 29 September 2010, a European Day of Action to coincide with a meeting of Europe’s Finance Ministers. Governments across Europe are presently implementing austerity packages by major cuts in public expenditure. These austerity measures may have serious long-term effects on growth and employment, as well as on the future of Social Europe.
The European Federation...
(26/7/2010)
BWI gender sensitivity and planning workshops in India
(26/7/2010)
Cambodian Unions Protest Over Minimum Wage
(23/7/2010)
Weaving tapestry of Unity: A Decade of TU Movement in Cambodia
“The outcomes of trade unions’ struggles and campaigns to date are reflective of movement organisational and political maturity and in a bigger context the mirror of political democratisation taking roots in the country”, said Ken Chengglang, General Secretary of the Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia (BWTUC) as representatives of major national trade union confederations, national federations, BWI and UNI, Solidarity Support Organisations and labour networks and NGOs...
(22/7/2010)
Lebanon: Al-Mustakbal Company looks into terminating all contracts
On the 4th of June 2010, the administration of the Al-Mustakbal Company for the production of pipes, presented the Ministry of Labor with a letter discussing the possibility of terminating all contracts established between the company and its workers due to the losses which have been inflicted on three-fourths (75%) of the company’s capital investment. The decision was taken in accordance with paragraph (W) of Article 50 of the Lebanese Work Law, with no financial compensation to be paid to...
(22/7/2010)
New Investigations on the asbestos trade
In late 2009, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists began looking into the global trade in asbestos, a cancer-causing fiber banned or restricted in much of the industrialized world but aggressively marketed in developing countries. What evolved was a nine-month investigation of an international lobby, much of it coordinated from Canada, which promotes the use of asbestos in construction materials and other products. ICIJ joined with reporters and producers with the...(22/7/2010)
New Edition of General Conditions of Contract In Use
The final version of "Conditions of Contract for Construction, Multilateral Development Bank Harmonised Edition" was posted yesterday on FIDIC's web site: http://www1.fidic.org/downloads/cons_mdb_gc_jun10_unprotected.pdf The World Bank and the regional development banks (ADB, AfDB, EBRD, IDB), collectively know as the multilateral development bank (MDBs), Last November agreed mandatory labour standards requirements for construction projects they finance. The specific language that the...(20/7/2010)
Peruvian construction workers march to demand wages and safety regulations
On 14 July 2010, protests called by Peru’s FTCCP construction workers union federation brought 150,000 workers into the streets of cities throughout the country. Over 25,000 demonstrated in Lima. Members of 125 unions participated in the march, which, in addition to protesting the deaths and injuries of 131 construction workers since 2008, demanded wage raises and improved working conditions. According to media outlets, “[T]he mobilization caused huge traffic tie-ups in downtown Lima,...(20/7/2010)
BWI – ILO New Materials for Health and Safety Training in Construction
BWI Health and Safety Director, Fiona Murie, is co-author (together with Professor Richard Neale of Glamorgan University) of the ILO’s new training package on Health and Safety in Construction. The overall aim was to compile a comprehensive international Occupational Safety & Health (OS&H) training package, made available in the public domain by the ILO. The training package is relevant to a global audience and applicable in a variety of legislative environments and construction projects,...(19/7/2010)
Anglophone construction network discusses strategies on organising international financial institutions projects in Africa
(19/7/2010)
Workers in Rai Ply find it imperative to address impacts of climate change on daily lives
Workers in Rai Ply find it imperative to address impacts of climate change on daily lives.
Workers representatives from Rai Ply Company meeting 6th and 7th July 2010 in Eldoret town in Kenya recounted the good experience in the past whereby there were many trees that provided fuel, timber, wood which made jobs to be secure,but with the current situation, workers welfare has gone down and other social services supported by the industry such as school, clinics are no longer available due to...
(15/7/2010)
Unions wants to play their part in developing a sustainable forestry industry i Indonesia
“Indonesia needs to set about the task of developing a forestry industry which is based on long-term sustainability where the social aspects need to be strengthened and promoted,“ said Khoirul Anam, President of KAHUTINDO, the BWI affiliate in Indonesia which represents forestry and wood workers. Anam was commenting during a seminar to promote decent work in the forestry industrIes of Indonesia, organised by the ILO in Surabaya on June 21-22. The seminar brought together representatives...(15/7/2010)
More migrant workers joining GS - Sweden
Polish, Latvian and Latin American forestry workers are now increasingly joining GS (the Swedish union which organises wood and forestry workers). The union hopes that more will thus be paid the right wage from the start - not only after a year of dispute and campaigning. During the spring and summer months, forestry contractors in Sweden hire foreign workers on a regular basis, particularly for planting and clearing avenues for power lines - work that is also suitable for less skilled...(14/7/2010)
Congo Basin: Forest and Woodworkers should be involved in Forest Certification
"Forest and Wood Companies in Cameroon just pay annual taxes to the State Forest and Commons in defiance of the need to take into account the working and living conditions of their employees” has observed the BWI Africa francophone Coordinator Abdoul Karim Ouedraogo at the opening of the sub-regional workshop on Forest Certification in the Congo Basin held on 21 and 22 June 2010 in Yaounde, Cameroon.
Wood and forestry Unions in the Congo Basin countries that are Cameroon, DR Congo and Central...
















