25 March 2019 06:03
Global Unions Statement on Cyclone Idai
March 25: At last week’s Council of Global Unions(CGU) meeting that was held in Geneva, Switzerland, the CGU expressed sincere condolences to all people who have been affected by Cyclone Idai.Read more...
22 March 2019 06:54
20 March 2019: The IUPAT organized a march and rally in Nashville, Tennessee calling SKANSKA to pay workers who are owed nearly $2 million dollars in wages.Read more...
21 March 2019 19:48
Under the banner of “Stop Gender-Based Violence in the Workplace: Causes and Consequences” BWI affiliates in European Regional Women’s Committee Group 6 (Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia) met at Hotel Granit-Ohrid from 16-17 March to discuss the implementation of BWI’s campaign to stop Gender-Based Violence as part of BWI’s global convergence number 4.Read more...
21 March 2019 19:09
The BWI General Secretary Ambet Yuson undertook a mission to Egypt from 17 to 20 March 2019 noting that the next BWI Regional Africa and Middle East Conference will take place in Cairo, Egypt in 2020.Read more...
20 March 2019 07:46
Unionized workers of FENTICOMMC, BWI affiliate in Dominican Republic, protested against a new law proposal discussed only by the Pension Fund Administrators (AFP), the employers and the Government related to Social Security System reform.Read more...
20 March 2019 07:34
From 7th to 10th March, 2019, Eighteen unions’ researchers from BWI affiliated in East Africa (STECOMA, TAMICO, TUICO, UBCCECAWU, KQMWU, KBCTFIEU and EIFCMWCOTU) met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with BWI staff, FNV East Africa Consultant and CETU Vice president for a training in communication.Read more...
19 March 2019 08:08
Union Leadership Training for women in the Middle East and North Africa Read more...
17 March 2019 11:51
17 March 2019: The BWI and its affiliates have expressed deep solidarity and strong condemnation over the Christchurch mosque attacks that occurred Friday afternoon in Christchurch, New Zealand. The brutal attack, which has shocked not only New Zealand but the entire world, has claimed 50 lives and of the 42 injured, two are in critical condition.Read more...
17 March 2019 10:34
The members of the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Union (KFCITU) of South Korea led by Kim Kyung Shin, Chair of the BWI Asia Pacific Regional Women’s Committee and member of the BWI World Board participated in the 2019 International Women’s Day mobilization organized by KFCITU’s national center, the Korean Construction Trade Unions.Read more...