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Unite members have sent a message of solidarity to the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), who this year has been celebrating its 20th-anniversary, marking two decades of unwavering dedication to workers’ rights and global solidarity. The BWI was founded on 9 December 2005 and has evolved into a global workers’ voice and united force, […]
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The following feature first appeared in the most recent edition of Landworker – you can read the full issue online here. Most British consumer products spring from a supply chain that stretches thousands of miles. The chain spans continents and is touched by an untold number of hands. What secrets do our consumer products hold? […]
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Yesterday (July 8) the Building and Woodworkers International (BWI), the global confederation of construction unions, opened a crucial International Trade Union Conference: Work and Sport in Mexico City. The conference runs from July 8-9, with over 70 trade union representatives from 14 countries across Latin America, Europe, and beyond coming together with a clear goal […]
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Construction workers and activists gathered at the Building Worker statue at Tower Hill in central London this Monday (April 28) for an International Workers Memorial Day commemoration. The annual Unite event is sadly still as relevant this year as ever, with the latest statistics showing that construction is the most dangerous sector to have a […]
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Unite activists and members have taken the fight for fair pay at food processing company Bakkavor to Reykjavik, Iceland this week (6 November) taking the opportunity to explain the industrial dispute to comrades from Efling, one of the largest unions in Iceland. Bakkavor’s biggest shareholders are Icelandic “tycoons” Agust and Lydur Gudmundsson. Lydur Gudmundsson was […]
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Unite the Union, in partnership with the Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) and supported by the C40 Cities VISIBLE project, concluded a learning tour focused on modern methods of construction and workforce integration within the green economy on 2nd and 3rd September, 2024, in Glasgow, Scotland. The event brought together various stakeholders, including city […]
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Dockyards football teams from across Britain, and further afield, gathered in West Thurrock on Saturday (3 Aug) for the UK’s first International Dockers Charity Football event. The tournament featured five-a-side teams from Bristol to London and Southampton to Liverpool. They even welcomed one team from Chile. Unite reps organised the event raising money for Havens […]
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European unions bring message of solidarity Members of Unites sister unions in the construction sector visited a learning centre in Canary Wharf last week, before joining a NISC meeting to highlight shared issues. One of the first stops for the delegation from Belgium, France and Italy was the Canary Wharf Learning Centre (CWLC) in the […]
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