23 March 2023 04:10
BWI and Danish federation forge stronger ties in Africa and Middle East
BWI and 3F will work more closely to come up with more innovative responses to safeguard workers' rights and ensure their sustainable future.
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20 March 2023 02:39
SASK, the development cooperation organization of the Finnish trade union movement, dispatched representatives Janne Ronkainen, Executive Director, and Simio Simbine, Regional Representative for Africa, to BWI's Africa and Middle East Regional Office on March 15.Read more...
17 March 2023 07:51
The 12 million-strong Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI) expresses its solidarity with Elizabeth Tang, a renowned Hong Kong trade union leader and one of the global labour movement’s distinguished women leaders. Read more...
07 March 2023 10:41
BWI strongly condemns the expulsion of European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) General Secretary Esther Lynch from Tunisia and the entry ban on international trade unionists from Algeria, France, Italy, Libya, Norway, Palestine and Spain, including ITUC Deputy general Secretary Owen Tudor. Read more...
03 March 2023 10:31
SASK, the development cooperation organisation of the Finnish trade union movement, together with a representative of the Finish government visited BWI’s Regional Office in South Africa on 28 February.
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02 March 2023 07:13
We, the Council of Global Unions (CGU), on behalf of 200 million workers around the world, expresses its support and solidarity with the UGTT and its affiliates in Tunisia over the arrest of Anis Al-Kaabi, General Secretary of the Tunisia’s Highway Workers Union, and several other UGTT leaders and members who have been questioned and summoned by the police in the past few weeks.Read more...
27 February 2023 10:15
The 12 million-strong Building and Wood Workers’ International’s (BWI), through its General Secretary Ambet Yuson, sends its solidarity and support to the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions (KFCITU) and its affiliate, the Korean Construction Workers’ Union (KCWU) as they hold a massive demonstration against their government’s assault on trade union rights. Read more...
26 February 2023 16:44
To mark the first year since Russian military forces invaded Ukraine, the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) joined an online event to reiterate its support for the Ukrainian working people’s fight for freedom and democracy.
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26 February 2023 15:16
The Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) expresses its full support for the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions (KFCITU) and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) as they collectively push back against their government’s continuing assault on trade union rights, particularly the right to associate, organise and collectively bargain.Read more...