Geneva, January 2006
Building and Wood Workers' International - BWI
On its World Congress in Buenos Aires, on 9 December 2005, the International Federation of Building and Wood Workers (IFBWW) and the World Federation of Building and Wood Workers (WFBW) created a new global union federation, the Building and Wood Workers¹ International - BWI.
The BWI is the Global Union Federation grouping free and democratic unions with members in the Building, Building Materials, Wood, Forestry and Allied sectors. The BWI groups together around 350 trade unions representing around
12 million members in 135 countries. The Headquarters is in Geneva, Switzerland. Regional Offices and Project Offices are located in Panama and Malaysia, South Africa, India, Australia, Burkina Faso, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Kenya, South Korea, Russia, Argentina, Peru and Brazil.
The President of the International is Klaus Wiesehügel from the building and forest workers union in Germany. Deputy President is Stefaan Vantourenhout from the building and wood workers union in Belgium and the General Secretary is Anita Normark.
