17 November 2016 13:46
Industri Energi supports organizing project in the Furniture industry in Ghana
Industri Enregi has a long history of cooperation with BWI in Africa which started in Zimbabwe and Swaziland, about HIV/AIDS, Ethiopia on the same issue of HIV/AIDS and now with the Timber and Woodworkers Union of Ghana in the Furniture sector. Read more...
08 September 2016 11:10
The BWI is supporting the struggle of 55 maintenance workers at Carlton United Breweries (CUB), members of BWI-affiliate the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and our partner the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU). Read more...
29 July 2016 13:16
The Belgian National Contact Person (NCP) of the OECD has accepted a complaint filed by the Building and Wood Workers’ International and its Argentinian affiliate — Ceramic Workers' Union of the Republic of Argentina (FOCRA) — against the Belgian ETEX Group under the OECD Multinational Enterprise Guidelines. Read more...
31 May 2016 07:33
A group of over one hundred rail workers in Hong Kong held a sit-in strike on Monday to protest the failure of their employer to pay HKD$7 million wages (~USD$900,000) owed to them over a month and a half period. Read more...
11 April 2016 14:44
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) signed a 1-year wage agreement today with Lafarge-Holcim South Africa.Read more...
11 April 2016 14:41
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called a protected strike for all members working in operations of LafargeHolcim around the country.Read more...
11 April 2016 12:54
At the recent Congress of the Swedish Painters’ Union close to 150 delegates elected a new leadership to lead the Malareforbundet under the banner of “Equal Values for the Trade Union Movement in the Future.”Read more...
11 April 2016 12:51
“Recruit and organise” was the theme of the Swedish Painters’ Union Congress, held in Stockholm on August 26-27.Read more...