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The Building and Wood Worker’s International (BWI) has been receiving alarming reports from the Swedwood plant in Danville, USA. Workers have reported that they have been dismissed just for saying they would welcome joining a union to protect their rights. Other reports claim that some managers are discriminating against workers. Clearly all is not well
Read more“Climate change affects all of us, not only as consumers but also as workers. The construction, building materials, forestry, and woodindustry, employing around 200 million workers, play an important role in contributing to and reducing CO2 emissions. Deforestation is the second largest source of carbon in the atmosphere. Buildings are responsible for about 8% of
Read moreThe Forestry Commission has created an excellent video called Forest & Climate Change: A Convenient Truth (15 minutes).
Read more(from Nation of Change, by Rebecca Leber) The Obama campaign and the super PAC Priorities USA recently fired back at Americans for Prosperity, highlighting Mitt Romney’s ties to a funding source of $18.5 million in energy attack ads: Koch Industries. Koch Industries has produced its own video claiming it doesn’t deserve the label of a
Read moreWall Street Journal article: IKEA’s Turkish Labor Issue(Excerpted from WSJ) Wednesday 12 September 2012 ISTANBUL—IKEA’s largely autonomous operation in Turkey is moving to guard the Swedish furniture giant’s reputation by threatening legal action against a local labor union that has staged a bitter campaign painting the company as a corporate bully looking to prevent workers
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