Youth

11 May 2022 12:57

In a three-day Youth Capacity Building Workshop held online on 12 -14 April, young trade unionists from the Southern Africa Construction Network (SACONET) met to discuss the impact of digitalisation in the construction sector and the future of work in Southern Africa. Read more...

25 March 2022 06:15

To prepare young affiliates for its Global Congress this October, BWI convened a global online meeting of young trade union officials on 16 March to strategise the sector’s next steps.
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14 February 2022 09:22

European young unionists vowed to raise and strengthen their voices against the rising number of work-related deaths coinciding in this year’s International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) on 28 April. Read more...

15 December 2021 12:26

Ending the year on a high note, BWI launched a youth research paper which aims to understand the tendencies of unionisation among BWI’s young members, the problems and challenges faced by young workers and their unions, and good organising strategies to attract more young workers to the trade union movement. Read more...

12 November 2021 04:38

BWI’s European Youth Committee (EYC) held its statutory meeting last 18 October to set its plans and other activities next year leading to BWI’s 5th World Congress in Madrid, Spain.Read more...

19 October 2021 07:45

In its 3rd Statutory Meeting last 14 September, the BWI Regional Youth Committee for the Latin America and the Caribbean (RYC-LAC) pushes for the signing of agreements between trade unions and vocational training institutions on the professional skills certification of young workers. Read more...

14 October 2021 01:32

BWI held its first ever youth-led webinar to mark World Day for Decent Work last 7 October. Read more...

01 October 2021 08:11

Twenty-one young leaders (21) from twelve (12) different BWI-affiliated unions in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) launched BWI’s Regional Activists Network Academy last September.Read more...