Two world leaders in the cement and buildings industry: Holcim and Lafarge will join forces to create a new group that will employ 130,000 with revenues of 35 billion euros. Faced with what will certainly be a global name in the building sector the international union federations: IndustriALL Global Union, Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI), and European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) have also joined forces to act. On January 15 they organized a world information day to request that the unions be more involved with the merger process and to secure commitments on social policies in the new group.
Not enough worker involvement according to unions. The international campaign organized for January 15 across 20 different countries was coordinated by the International and European Industry and Construction organizations (IndustriALL Global, BWI, and EFBWW). Pickets and assemblies have taken place in Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, the Philippines, and Romania, and flyers and debates have been organized in Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Egypt, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Thailand, etc… In Fr
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