For his first visit to Africa as Secretary General of the BWI, Ambet Yuson chooses the region of the Congo Basin and specifically the DR Congo to meet workers in forestry and wood from five Central African countries gathered from 14th to 16th May 2012 in Kinshasa. It was during a training meeting...

Finally, the notorious asbestos industry lobbying outfit in Montreal has shut down. The Chrysotile Institute (Formerly the Asbestos Institute) is an industry and Canadian government funded lobby group responsible for defending and promoting use of asbestos internationally. The Institute received...

Fellesforbundet and the Norwegian employer counterpart, BNL, concluded a new collective agreement for the building industries for the coming two years. The agreement builds on the objectives reached in the frontrunner agreement - engineering/metal, textiles -, and includes some specific...

The Building and Woodworkers’ Federation of Thailand (BWFT), the Thai Labour Solidarity Committee (TLSC) and the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) expresses its condolences to the family of the three workers killed while working on the Baiyoke Tower II. We call on the Labour...

Members of the Global Union Federations (GUFs) gave the Asian Development Bank (ADB) a failing mark (alternative term: ‘thumbs down’) because it reportedly fell short in promoting and protecting the rights and welfare of workers in its projects worldwide. “The ADB’s performance on issues...

Demanding their rights be recognized and celebrating their contributions to build a fair and decent society, construction, forestry and wood working unions held several rallies around the Asia-Pacific region to celebrate International Workers’ Memorial Day and International Labour Day. These two...

An Azerbaijani real estate developer announces a project for giant artificial islands on the Caspian Sea. He plans to build 30 million square metres of floorspace over 41 islands ($60 billion). On one of these islands, the intention is to build a 1,050 metre tower (the world’s highest...

MANILA – Members of the Global Union Federations (GUFs) led a silent protest Friday at the opening of the Governors’ Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) against the financial institution’s continued inaction to their calls to protect and promote workers’ rights in all its projects....

Portugal’s Teixeira Duarte, in a consortium with the Venezuela’s Precomprimido, signed a contract for the extension of the Avenida Boyaca in Caracas (€920 million). Skanska was awarded a contract worth €274 million for the construction of a railway line in Silicon Valley...

The BWI shares the view of the international trade union organisations and global civil society organisations on a calculated move by industrialized governments, like the European Union, on easing the economic sanctions against Burma. While recent initiatives made by the military-backed government...