Trade union defence of democracy is fundamental. Trade unions require the oxygen of democracy if they are to flourish. If democracy is to live and thrive, trade unions will join with others to make that happen.
Women members of the for Bayanihan ng mga Manggagawa sa Konstruksyon ng Qatar (BMKQ) are paving the way for gender equality among migrant workers in the Middle East.
L'IBB condamne avec la plus grande fermeté l'arrestation de la présidente de la Confédération des syndicats de Hong Kong (HKCTU), Carol Ng, et d'au moins 50 autres militants de la démocratie en vertu de la loi de sécurité nationale (NSL) de Hong Kong.
Le 3 janvier, le syndicat des travailleurs du bâtiment et du bois du Cambodge (BWTUC) a exprimé sa déception face à la lenteur du gouvernement à répondre à la demande de justice et de responsabilité concernant l'effondrement d'un bâtiment à Kep, dans le sud du Cambodge, il y a un an, qui a tué 36 travailleurs et blessé 26 autres.
En ce début d'année 2021, je saisis cette occasion pour vous adresser mes meilleurs vœux pour la nouvelle année et réaffirmer l'engagement de l'IBB en faveur de la solidarité mondiale, alors que nous relevons les défis auxquels nous faisons face depuis 2020 et les nouveaux défis auxquels nous serons confrontés en 2021.
À l'occasion de la Journée internationale des migrants, l'Organisation internationale des employeurs (OIE) et l'IBB publient une déclaration commune sur le rôle essentiel des travailleurs migrants pendant la pandémie et la nécessité de leur offrir une meilleure protection sociale en cette période d’incertitude.
L'IBB et la FETBB commémorent conjointement la journée du 18 décembre, Journée mondiale des travailleurs migrants sous le thème "Nous sommes tous migrants".
Singing the popular song “Bella Ciao,” BWI affiliates from different parts of the world expressed solidarity to workers worldwide as trade unions collectively fight the pandemic build a better future.
BWI, as part of its long-standing sports and decent work campaign, has defended the rights and conditions of construction workers involved in building facilities for Olympic Games just as we have with FIFA facilitates.
BWI’s European Regional Committee (ERC) extended its full support and solidarity to Kyrgystani and Swedish trade unionists who are in the middle of important fights to defend labour rights.
After BWI’s Indian and Romanian trade union affiliates joined hands in helping six stranded Indian migrant workers in Romania, the said workers were finally repatriated and returned to their home state of Tamil Nadu on 16 November.
The Council of Global Unions (CGU) will discuss the latest human rights developments in the Philippines, especially with the issuance of the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the anti-worker Terror Law, and how unions can utilise international instruments to force the Duterte government to uphold and respect human and trade union rights.
L'IBB, par l'intermédiaire de son secrétaire général Ambet Yuson, se joint à ses syndicats affiliés américains pour célébrer leur victoire électorale historique, qui, espère-t-elle, créera des vagues de changement positif dans le monde entier et créera l'élan nécessaire pour défendre la démocratie, promouvoir l'égalité des sexes et garantir les droits de l'homme et des syndicats contre la propagation du populisme autoritaire.
Dans le cadre de sa contribution à l'analyse des flux migratoires en Europe avant et pendant la pandémie de la COVID-19, l'IBB a publié un document visant à identifier les principales tendances migratoires dans la région qui servirait de guide aux syndicats pour mener de meilleures politiques de protection des droits des travailleurs migrants.
Alors que les travailleurs philippins commémorent la déclaration de la loi martiale de Ferdinand Marcos il y a 48 ans, les syndicats mondiaux ajoutent leurs voix pour s'opposer à la loi anti-terroriste draconienne et condamner les violations massives des droits de l'homme sous l'administration du président Rodrigo Duterte.
L'IBB s'est félicitée de l'adoption d'une résolution du Parlement européen exprimant sa profonde inquiétude face à la détérioration de la situation des droits de l'homme aux Philippines sous le président Rodrigo Duterte.
Le Conseil des Syndicats Mondiaux (CSM) se félicite de l'adoption par le Parlement européen (PE) de la résolution sur la situation aux Philippines, y compris le cas de Maria Ressa. La résolution donne des exemples de la dégénérescence de la démocratie, des violations flagrantes des droits de l’homme, de la violence et de l’intimidation endémiques pendant le règne du président Duterte.
Dans un autre exemple de solidarité et de coopération de la classe ouvrière, les affiliés syndicaux de l’IBB en Inde et en Roumanie se sont associés pour travailler avec les autorités afin d’aider les travailleurs migrants indiens, qui auraient été bloqués dans l’Etat européen.
This was the message sent by BWI to all its affiliates, partners, allies and friends as it encouraged them to donate to the people of Beirut, especially its workers, who were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and a prolonged economic crisis that decimated millions of jobs, and recently, a social unrest that was triggered by the catastrophic Beirut explosion that injured and killed many people.
BWI, on behalf of its 12 million trade union members worldwide, and EFBWW, representing 2 million trade union members from 34 European countries, express their solidarity with the brave trade unionists and workers of Belarus who went on strike and organised different forms of democratic and peaceful actions to protest against the alleged massive electoral fraud in their country.
BWI welcomes landmark achievements in Qatar that were signed into law on 30 August 2020; introducing a minimum wage for migrant workers and allowing them to change jobs without requiring their employers’ permission to do so.
For more than 20 days people in Belarus have been protesting massive electoral fraud. Peaceful protestors have endured violence and repression and many have been arrested. Workers in Belarus joined the growing democratic movement and went on strike, organising protest actions to demand an end to the violence and new elections in the country.
With the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the plight of many Ukrainian migrant workers in EU countries, PROFBUD, the construction workers union of Ukraine held a multi-stakeholder conference on 19 August in Odessa to discuss and address the situation.
BWI, on behalf of its 12 million trade union members worldwide, expresses its full solidarity and support to Belarus’ brave trade unionists and workers who went on strike and launched massive peaceful actions to protest the alleged massive electoral fraud in their country.
The Building and Woodworkers’ International (BWI) expresses its sympathies to the Lebanese people on the recent tragedy arising from the explosion at the Beirut Port on Tuesday 4 August 2020.
Pour faire face au sort de millions de travailleurs migrants rapatriés et / ou en attente de rapatriement en raison du chômage induit par la pandémie, l'IBB a approuvé l'appel lancé par une coalition d'organisations de la société civile (OSC) et de syndicats pour une mécanisme de justice » pour répondre à la crise des migrants. Une lettre urgente a été envoyée aux Nations Unies (ONU) et aux gouvernements le 1er juin, suivie d'une deuxième lettre le 10 juillet pour exprimer la gravité de la situation.
Le 8 juillet, l'IBB organisera un webinaire mondial au cours duquel différents travailleurs migrants et organisations discuteront des défis et des enseignements de la pandémie COVID-19 pour le monde du travail des migrants.
Avec l'aide de l’IBB, le Syndicat national de la construction et des services du Guatemala (SINCS-G) a pu fournir de la nourriture et une assistance médicale à 50 des familles de travailleurs les plus vulnérables dont il s'occupe. Le syndicat a déclaré que son aide a permis de toucher 250 personnes, dont des femmes, des enfants, des jeunes et des personnes âgées. Le SINCS-G a expliqué qu'en moyenne, une famille guatémaltèque est composée de cinq membres.
Every year since joint inspections began in Qatar based on the memorandum of Understanding signed in late 2016 between BWI and the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy of Qatar, established for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Joint Working Group (JWG) has made a report.
Workers at Wendt Corporation, a plant based in Buffalo New York succeeded in winning their two-year fight for a collective bargaining agreement. The workers joined the Ironworkers Union (Local 576) in 2017 and they have been battling the management for its first contract. Finally, this past August the union and the management agreed to an agreement after nearly 60 sessions of negotiations. During the negotiations the Wendt management harassed union members and threatened to lay-off workers.
The global union federation BWI has today released a second report highlighting how Tokyo 2020 construction workers lives are still at risk, while rampant subcontracting is putting downward pressure on workers’ wages.
In June 2018, at the Holcim El Salvador plant in Metapán in the north of El Salvador, eight leaders from the first Board of Directors of SICCA [Union for the Cement Industry and Allied Workers] were dismissed the day after having presented the union to the Ministry of Labour.
On 28 September the BWI and its Japanese Affiliates Council (BWI-JAC) held an international forum looking at the risks to human rights involved in the preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
Today, on the opening of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, the BWI and its 12 million members around the world express condolences to the families of the twenty-one construction workers who died during construction of World Cup stadiums.
On 5 June 2018, the Swiss National Compact Point (NCP) responsible for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises concluded its follow-up on the BWI complaint against FIFA that focused on the 2020 World Cup Games in Qatar.
April 30 2018 - On the eve of May Day in Doha, close to 200 participants attended the BWI “Community Leaders Forum on Workers’ Welfare in the Construction and Allied Sectors” in Doha, Qatar.
For the first time, the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) commemorated International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) in Qatar by supporting the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs (ADLSA) 2nd National OSH Conference and participating in various site-level activities to raise awareness on safety and health.
Today, as the 2018 Winter Olympics begin in PyeongChang, South Korea, the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) and the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Unions (KFCITU) have released a joint report outlining violations of construction workers’ rights throughout the Olympic construction process.
A Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) delegation met this week with FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura who was appointed by the FIFA Council at the 66th FIFA Congress in Mexico. Representing BWI were: Ambet Yuson, General Secretary; Johan Lindholm Byggnads, Sweden; Dietmar Schaefers, IG BAU, Germany; Pierre Cuppens, ACV-CSC, Belgium; Steinar Krogstad, Fellesforbundet, Norway; Gail Cartmail and Jim Kennedy, UNITE; UK.
The FIFA Human Rights Advisory Board which includes Ambet Yuson, General Secretary of BWI met this week and issued the following statement:
We welcomed our first day and a half of substantive discussions with the FIFA Administration, including the Secretary-General, about FIFA’s human rights responsibilities. It was an important opportunity to establish a general understanding of FIFA’s human rights efforts to date, and it was a forthright and frank discussion.
The first joint inspections on 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar™ projects have been carried out by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) and the Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI), the global trade union for construction workers.
The Mega-Sporting Events Platform for Human Rights (MSE Platform) published the ‘Sporting Chance’ White Papers, a series of 11 white papers on the interaction between MSEs and human rights.
According to the International Labour Organization there are over 150 million migrants in the global workforce. Migrant workers are essential part of the global economy and without them, entire economies would collapse.
On 2 June 2016, 15 members of the Tower Crane Operators Branch of the Korean Construction Workers Union (KCWU) affiliated to the Korean Federation of Construction Industry Trade Union (KFCITU), BWI’s affiliate in South Korea, were found guilty under the criminal charges of “blackmail” and “obstruction of business” for merely engaging in collective bargaining negotiations.
Encore trop de multinationales fonctionnent sans respecter les normes internationales du travail et de nombreux gouvernements sont seulement intéressés à attirer des investissements.
Le soutien des travailleurs migrants reste essentiel car ils reçoivent des salaires bas et ne sont pas couverts par la législation sociale et professionnelle.
La mobilisation globale pour des conditions de vie et de travail décentes pour tous les travailleurs employés dans le cadre des méga-événements sportifs est essentielle.
La signature de nos messages de protestation à des gouvernements antidémocratiques ou à des sociétés anti-syndicales aidera les syndicalistes dans de nombreux pays car ils continuent de faire l'objet d'un emprisonnement, d'un licenciement et d'une discrimination.
