The international building workers federation BWI and the national affiliates have signed an International Framework Agreement with the construction companies Sacyr, Acciona and Dragados. The agreement constitutes a formal recognition of social partnership at the global level. It provides a framework for protecting trade union rights and encouraging social dialogue and collective bargaining, with a view to maintaining good working conditions and industrial relations.
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For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) cbn-aias@uva.nl or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova mnikolova@etui.org. For previous issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit http://www.etui.org/E-Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter. You may find further information on the ETUI at www.etui.org, and on the AIAS at www.uva-aias.net.