Call for Action: Pledge for BWI Manifesto to protect migrant workers in an overheating planet!

This 30 November, world leaders will set foot in Dubai for the United Nations Global Climate Conference (COP28). In the wake of its “Heat Up Workers Rights, Not the Planet!” campaign, the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) will highlight the pressing need to protect workers’ health and safety in the global climate emergency. 

The right to healthy and safe workplaces is a fundamental human right. It is time to make it concrete for millions of construction, building materials, wood and forestry workers who are affected by workplace heat stress and other extreme weather events. 

Amidst the pressing global campaign for climate justice, we recognize that the fight for a sustainable future is intrinsically linked with the struggle for migrant rights and against increased gender-based violence driven by climate-induced disasters. 

We ask governments and other stakeholders to take a moment to reflect on what is like to work under extreme heat and other severe weather events for millions of construction workers and to pledge support for the BWI Manifesto to create a world where every worker is safe and protected.

Change is possible if we act together.

 

✊🏽 How to take part? 

• Download here the BWI Manifesto in your language to promote the campaign.
  
  
• Use the BWI Manifesto to join with employers and companies and pledge together at the local, company, regional, and/or country levels. No action is too big or too small to commit to workplace health and safety
  
  
• Use the BWI Manifesto to reach out to your governments to discuss and commit to the principles of the Manifesto ahead of and during the upcoming Climate Summit (COP28) in Dubai.
  
  
• Make pledges that bring about concrete changes for workers in the construction, wood and forestry and allied materials in a changing climate.
  
  
• Hold consultations with your members, particularly those impacted by extreme heat and other severe weather events.
  
  
• Launch campaigns to promote the fundamental right of all to healthy and safe environments and enhance protections form extreme heat and weather events.
  
  
• Use the power of social media to amplify our collective message. Share our BWI Manifesto and “Heat Up Workers’ Rights, Not the Planet!” Campaign posters and other media resources to take photos, support and share actions.
  
  
• Download the BWI Manifesto, the campaign posters and other media resources  for actions and solidarity photos.
  
  
• Use the hashtag #BWIBeatTheHeat #JustTransitionNow and tagging @BWIglobal (X/Twitter) or @BWIGlobalUnion (Facebook/Instagram).
  
  
• Adopt a gender-sensitive approach that considers the increased risks in gender-based violence in extreme weather and climate events. 
  
  
• Download here the posters for actions and solidarity photos to mobilise against gender-based violence in the context of climate change on 27^th November and during the 16 days of activism.
• Share your actions with BWI Regional Gender Coordinators and/or BWI Global Gender Coordinator Anna Andreeva at anna.andreeva(at)bwint.org for further support.

 

⏰ When? 

• Starting today and every day leading and during the COP 28, which will start on 30 November to 12 December 2023.

 

🗣 Spread the word!

• Follow: https://twitter.com/BWIglobal Tweet, like, retweet.
• Like the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BWIGlobalUnion 

 

Share your pledges to the Manifesto with BWI regional staff and/or  BWI Global Campaigns Director Paola Cammilli at paola.cammilli@bwint.org for further support.

 

Together for system change, not climate change!
Heat up Workers’ rights, not the planet!