Global trade unionist promoting the enforcement of workers’ rights in the construction value chain.
Joined September 2013
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Linnea retweeted
26 May 2025
BWI condemns the escalating war in Gaza, a human-made disaster, not a collateral crisis. Israel’s policies of starvation, displacement & conquest have pushed over 500,000 working people to the brink of famine. Gaza lies in ruins.
Read our statement:
bwint.org/BwiNews/NewsDetail…
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Linnea retweeted
18 Jun 2024
How extreme are global weather conditions so far this year? Listen to @BWIglobal's Director on Construction and Health and Safety, @L_Wikstrom, on the impact of climate change on the most vulnerable & what it is like to toil under the scorching sun on construction sites on
@AJEnglish
#HeatStress is not neutral. aje.io/rf92sv
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Linnea retweeted
30 Oct 2023
Lucky to have @BWIglobal organising a Business & Human Rights workshop with @FESonline in Tanzania that looks at the responsibility of MNCs and respect for human and labour rights in (mega) #infrastructure projects and #globalvaluechains - more and more utilising subcontractors.
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Linnea retweeted
28 Nov 2023
BWI conducted a week-long mission to Tanahu Hydropower Project’s 3 funded packages & various smaller energy projects in the Katmandu valley of Nepal, w/c included interviews w/ management, safety officers, workers & union reps.
Read more.⬇️
bwint.org/cms/nepal-bwi-and-…?
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30 Nov 2023
Too kind @Owen4ituc but grateful to lift these issues at the the last day of the World Health and Safety congress
30 Nov 2023
The fabulous @L_Wikstrom from @BWIglobal lets fly at the 23rd World Health & Safety Congress in Sydney about the appalling ill-heath in construction: like asbestos, heat stress, cancers, long hours and suicide
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Linnea retweeted
30 Nov 2023
And union Health & Safety Reps at the workplace are key, says @L_Wikstrom, not just during construction projects, but in the planning & budgeting process.
30 Nov 2023
A key question is how to spread access for workers to occupational health services? It would help if WHO pressed for primary care to cover occupational health as part of Universal Health Coverage and promote ILO Convention 161.
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3 May 2023
This years Mayday have been colored by the ultimate act of protest conducted by our fellow construction unionist who self-immolated in front of a courthouse in Gangneung, South Korea.
He will be remembered and we will fight for the living in his honor!
hani.co.kr/arti/english_edit…
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Linnea retweeted
15 Mar 2023
To ensure labour rights, BWI held joint inspections with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) covering 4 sites in Bangladesh's Rupsha 800-Megawatt Combined Cycle Power Plant Project & Dhaka and Western Zone Transmission Grid Expansion Project.
Read more. ⬇️
bwint.org/cms/bangladesh-bwi…?
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Linnea retweeted
15 Mar 2023
"Neither the Qatari gov't nor FIFA are delivering on their lofty promises. It's time that past abuses on workers are recognised & remedied, & workers' rights to associate & bargaining are recognised." -BWI General Secretary Ambet Yuson
Statement. ⬇️
bwint.org/cms/fifa-world-cup…?
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Linnea retweeted
17 Mar 2023
BWI stands with Hong Kong trade union leader Elizabeth Tang. Because accusation is not proof of guilt, and conviction is based on truth.
Read our statement. ⬇️
bwint.org/cms/bwi-on-the-arr…
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Linnea retweeted
21 Jan 2023
Suntracs y @BWIglobal
Nilton Freitas Repr. Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Ernesto Marval Dir. Reg. de política y Linnea Wikstrom, Dir. Global del Sector Construcción.
Conversan con los trabajadores sobre las buenas prácticas sindicales.Metro Línea 3 Estación 14
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Linnea retweeted
28 Nov 2022
The UK is way behind international best practice on silica exposures. We need a new, more protective #silica workplace exposure limit now! Over a thousand lives each year could be saved, thousands of workers could be spared disability. Send HSE a message: hazards.org/hsestopkillingus
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Linnea retweeted
28 Nov 2022
More than just a reduced exposure limit.
You need to eliminate dangerous products like high silica content engineered stone and implement stronger rules to identify and control silica exposure in all industries from quarries & mining to building & construction
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Linnea retweeted
18 Nov 2022
Qatar accused of ‘deafening silence’ over plans for migrant workers’ centre theguardian.com/football/202…
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Linnea retweeted
18 Nov 2022
BWI believes that, if reforms are to be sustainable, it's critical to reach an agreement before the end of the World Cup that secures migrant workers' interests. #FIFAWorldCupQatar2022 #MigrantWorkersCentre
Full statement.
tinyurl.com/yck9zvtm
Photo: Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach
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Linnea retweeted
14 Nov 2022
BWI lauds Nigeria for making history on its twin ratification w/n a year of ILO Convention 190 on Workplace Violence & Harassment, & ILO Convention 187 on the OHS Promotional Framework. A great advance for gender equality & OHS!♀️🚑
Full story. ⬇️
tinyurl.com/4k6y9ftb
📸 ILO
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Linnea retweeted
20 Oct 2022
Amid the celebration of mayors’ innovative climate leadership at the #C40Summit, @POTUS and the U.S. @WhiteHouse recognised the importance of this accelerator and also the Clean Construction Action Coalition.
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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Linnea retweeted
20 Oct 2022
Today, London and Milan joined C40’s Clean Construction Accelerator, a @BWIglobal-endorsed commitment to support cities in generating good, green jobs and building the infrastructure of the future. c40.org/news/50-million-gree…
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21 Oct 2022
I want to thank @MayorofSeattle for accompanying me in the important discussion this morning about the need for skills development, social dialogue and decent work, as a part of the transition to a clean construction sector #C40Summit @BWIglobal
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