BWI
Building and Wood
Worker's International

Building and Wood Worker's International

The BWI is the Global Union Federation grouping free and democratic unions with members in the Building, Building Materials, Wood, Forestry and Allied sectors.

"No work without our collective agreement."

Union members in Cambodia need your support.

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Yellow card for FSC!

Campaign launched in November 2017. The BWI has given the yellow card to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) for failing to include ILO Core Conventions in their chain of custody (COC) certification.

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#HerStoryOurStory Highlights Gender-based Violence in Construction

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Global Unions: Pulling out of the Migration Compact is an irresponsible step in the wrong direction

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Macedonia: First agreement at “Jasen” Enterprise for managing and protection of multipurpose forest area

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Faster, Higher, Stronger – lessons from BWI Sports Campaign

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The health and safety conditions in our industries are often far from satisfactory and often the work is very dangerous.

Priorities

Union Jobs Rights Special Issues

Qatar: Partnership on workers’ empowerment

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Ensuring Dignity While Building Infrastructure

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BWI leads calls to create Labor Migration Working Group

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Congress - Outcome

26 Nov. – 1 December 2017, Durban

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Regions in movement

Joe Macharia on improving conditions for workers in Chinese multinationals in Kenya

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Rights and justice for migrant and all workers

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BWI champions labour rights for migrant workers at Global Migration Forum

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Israel: Another step to improve the safety in the construction industry

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Turkey: Three deadly accidents in one week

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Kenya: No Exploitation for development in Infrastructure Projects

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