18 September 2023 13:09
Building workers’ power in China’s Belt and Road Initiative
On 18-19 September, around 80 trade unionists from European and African countries concerned with China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) gathered in Sarajevo on the occasion of the Building and Wood Workers’ International’s (BWI) conference on Chinese multinational companies (MNCs) and investments in the Pan-European region. Weiterlesen...
09 May 2023 13:19
On the 3rd of April, at the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Annual Governors Meeting in Incheon, South Korea, BWI and the ADB signed a Cooperation Agreement committing to jointly promote enhanced policies and good practice implementation of labour and working conditions across Asia and the Pacific. Weiterlesen...
15 March 2023 04:37
Im Februar haben die BHI und ihr Mitgliedsverband in Bangladesch, BSBWWF, gemeinsam mit der Asiatischen Entwicklungsbank (AsDB) Inspektionen auf vier Baustellen durchgeführt, die zum 800-Megawatt-Gas-und-Dampf-Kombikraftwerkprojekt Pupsha und zum Übertragungsnetzausweitungsprojekt Dhaka und Western Zone gehören. Weiterlesen...
23 January 2023 07:00
Am 19.-20. Januar haben die BHI und die nationale Gewerkschaft der Beschäftigten in der Bauindustrie und ähnlichen Branchen (SUNTRACS) der Baustelle der Metro-Linie 3 in Panama einen Besuch abgestattet und sich mit den Beschäftigten sowie dem Management getroffen.Weiterlesen...
02 November 2022 13:58
On 12-14 October, BWI, with representatives from its headquarters, affiliates and assigned organisers, conducted joint site visits with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) safeguard team to five (5) sites in the Corridor X (Serbia) and Corridor Vc (Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina) projects.Weiterlesen...
16 August 2022 05:00
BWI, together with the general secretaries, education officers, shop stewards, project coordinators and representatives of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), IndustriAll, the Africa Development Bank, 3F, and other stakeholders, held a two-day hybrid network meeting on how to engage Chinese multinational companies (MNCs) in the region last 28-29 July in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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25 July 2022 03:35
Gewerkschaften in Ostafrika haben ihre Untersuchungen von Projekten der internationalen Finanzinstitutionen (IFI) verstärkt, insbesondere derjenigen, die chinesische Infrastrukturprojekte finanzieren, um ihre gewerkschaftliche Aufbauarbeit bei Mega-Bauprojekten auszuweiten.
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06 July 2022 04:12
BWI has partnered with the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC) to take stock of various worker experiences with global infrastructure developments. Weiterlesen...
04 July 2022 10:36
As part of the Building and Woodworkers’ International’s (BWI) Global Conference on the Belt and Road Initiative held in the Philippines last June, trade unionists from different parts of the world joined a field visit to the country’s first ever Metro Manila Subway Project. Weiterlesen...