17 June 2024 03:34
Africa: Unions urge strict compliance with labour standards in IFI-funded infra projects
At a key roundtable discussion in Nairobi, trade union leaders and international representatives highlighted the urgent need for stringent labour and social safeguards in infrastructure projects across Africa.Lee mas...
08 May 2024 11:26
The Blue Dot Network (“BDN”), an OECD-supported certification framework for infrastructure projects, was recently launched on the OECD 2024 Infrastructure Forum.Lee mas...
15 April 2024 13:04
BWI’s Conference on Reconstruction in Ukraine, held on April 9-10, 2024, in Warsaw, Poland, brought together key stakeholders from various sectors. Lee mas...
28 November 2023 14:45
BWI, from 20 to 24 November, conducted a week-long mission to Tanahu Hydropower Project’s 3 funded packages and various smaller energy projects in the Katmandu valley of Nepal.Lee mas...
18 September 2023 13:09
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. Lee mas...
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. Lee mas...
15 March 2023 04:37
El pasado mes de febrero, la ICM y su afiliada en Bangladesh, la BSBWWF llevaron a cabo inspecciones conjuntas con el Banco Asiático de Desarrollo (BAD) que abarcaron cuatro (4) emplazamientos del proyecto de la central eléctrica de ciclo combinado de 800 megavatios de Rupsha y del proyecto de expansión de la red de transmisión de Dhaka y la zona occidental del país.Lee mas...
23 January 2023 07:00
Last 19-20 January, BWI and the National Union of Workers of Construction and Similar Industries (SUNTRACS) visited the Metro Line 3 construction site in Panama and had a meeting with its workers and management.
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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.Lee mas...