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. 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...
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
In an attempt to strengthen their organising work in mega construction projects, Trade unions in East Africa beefed up their research work on international financial institutions (IFIs), particularly those that fund Chinese infrastructure projects.Lee mas...
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. Lee mas...
04 July 2022 10:36
Como parte de la Conferencia Global sobre la Iniciativa de la Franja y la Ruta de la Internacional de Trabajadores de la Construcción y la Madera (ICM) celebrada en Filipinas, en junio pasado, sindicalistas de diferentes partes del mundo se unieron a una visita de campo al primer Proyecto del Metro de Manila del país. Lee mas...