24 March, 2010IMF and ICEM give international solidarity support to Vale workers at a rally in Sudbury on March 23 and join calls for a Global Week of Action against Vale Inco from April 5 to 11, 2010.
CANADA: Dozens of labour leaders from around the world gathered at a rally in Sudbury on March 23 to support workers on strike at Vale Inco's operations in Port Colborne, Sudbury, and Voisey's Bay in Canada.
Representatives from the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) and the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining, and General Workers Unions (ICEM) were part of the delegation denouncing Vale's refusal to negotiate a fair deal and calling on the company to stop its aggressive and destructive actions against workers.
At the rally, the United Steelworkers, the union of the Vale strikers in Canada, announced its call for a Global Week of Action against Vale the week of April 5 to 11, 2010.
During the Global Week of Action unions representing Vale workers in different countries will undertake solidarity actions designed to show Vale that workers stand united. Actions will take different forms depending on the culture and traditions of communities and unions, but they will all bring the same message - Justice at Vale.
Unions working together on Vale include dozens of unions from Australia, Brazil, Germany, France, Indonesia, Mozambique, New Caledonia, Norway, Peru, Sweden, South Africa, United Kingdom, Zambia, among others, as well as the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF), and the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining, and General Workers Unions (ICEM), the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), and the Brazilian Union Centrals CUT (Central Unica dos Trabalhadores) and Conlutas (Coordenacao Nacional de Lutas).
For further information go to the IMF website here, or the the Fair Deal Now website at: http://www.fairdealnow.ca/