15 November 2023 04:30
East and Southern Africa: Unions strengthen women leadership
During the BWI & 3F online Women’s Leadership Development Workshop held on 30-31 October, 22 women trade union leaders, including 9 youth participants, underwent training on diverse leadership styles and principles. Read more...
12 November 2023 14:17
At the extraordinary session of the International Labour Organization's Governing Body, the workers' proposal to present an advisory opinion to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding the incorporation of the right to strike as a safeguarded right under the ILO Convention N0. 87 on freedom of association was formally endorsed following a vote.Read more...
10 November 2023 15:01
Unite the Union's long-running dispute ends in vindication for dismissed Murphy workers.Read more...
05 November 2023 15:21
BWI’s affiliate in Switzerland, UNIA held its “extraordinary congress” last 21 October in Bern. Read more...
05 November 2023 13:22
Hot on the heels of their success in reinstating their president, Dariusz Kawka, the BWI-affiliated Solidarnosc has achieved yet another significant victory in the fight for workers' rights at the IKEA Industry factory in Lubawa, Poland.Read more...
31 October 2023 08:34
For eight consecutive days, the BWI-affiliated SUNTRACS together with the Panamanian working population have hit the streets to protest the approval in less than 72 hours of a law that authorises a 20-year concession (extendable for another 20) to a Canadian company to exploit the largest open-pit copper mine in Central America.Read more...
27 October 2023 06:08
On 23-24 October, 22 trade unionists, including 12 women workers, from BWI affiliates in Southern and East Africa met for a two-day, face-to-face Global Organisers’ Workshop. Read more...
22 October 2023 16:54
Last 17 October, an important event took place as the Trade Union of Construction and Building Materials Industry Workers of Serbia (SRGIGMS) signed a new collective bargaining agreement with "Megalit-Šumnik" Raška. Read more...
18 October 2023 01:12
Denilson Pestana, BWI Regional Committee President for Latin America and the Caribbean and International Affairs Secretary for the New Central Workers’ Union (NCST/Brazil), joined trade union leaders representing various trade union national confederations from the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in attending the 12th BRICS Trade Union Forum (BTUF) in Durban, South Africa last 26-27 September. Read more...