To mark International Workers’ Memorial Day, Hong Kong Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) affiliate CSGWU will hold a public memorial event near the Central Government’s building, with one of their key demands to be for the Government to recognise karoshi (death by overwork) fatalities as workplace accidents.
All of the global federation Building and Wood Workers International BWI Peninsula-Malaysia affiliates will collaborate in a press conference/protest that will be held at a Kuala Lumpur construction site demanding justice for Nepali migrant workers who have died in Malaysia. BWI will publish a report on 28 April documenting eight fatalities and a further 20 injuries where no compensation has been paid whatsoever.
In Sabah Malaysia BWI affiliate STIEU is planning further activities to be announced shortly.
On 28 April global construction union federation Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) affiliate BWTUC (Cambodia) will hold a meeting at their head office with around 200 participants. They will then march together to the Ministry of Labor and deliver a letter demanding stronger protections for construction workers.
On Friday 26 April 3-6pm the global construction union federation Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) affiliate SERBUK-Indonesia will hold a public discussion in collaboration with the University of Southern Jakarta on health and safety. See the poster below.
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including Swedish. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including French. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including Portuguese. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including Spanish. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including English. [pdf]
BWI has published an International Workers’ Memorial Day poster in several languages, including Russian. [pdf]
