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30 September, 2001The IMF asks the Swiss-based Glencore International to intervene with its Peruvian zinc mining subsidiary to ensure respect for fundamental workers' and trade union rights.
PERU/SWITZERLAND: The management of Iscaycruz, the zinc mining complex in Peru and a subsidiary of the Swiss-based natural resources group Glencore International, has refused to negotiate with the elected leaders of the company's trade union and, as part of its union-busting strategy, dismissed two union leaders and suspended without pay a number of other trade union activists.
The IMF's general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, has written letters to Glencore International, to the mining company and to Peru's minister of labour calling on them to reinstate Tomas Castro Oré, Edwin Espinosa Melendrez, Nicolas Cano Richard Arture, Jesus Vasquez Ampuero, Rafael Prado Velarde, Melgar Trinidad Marcos, and any other workers dismissed for their trade union activities. In addition, Malentacchi called on the management of Iscaycruz to provide full compensation for any loss of pay or other benefits. He urged the company to accept the right of employees to belong to a trade union and to begin negotiations for a new collective agreement as soon as possible.
Peru has ratified all core conventions of the International Labour Organisation, which of course cover the rights to freedom of association and to organise and bargain collectively.
Glencore International has worldwide activity in the mining, smelting, refining, processing and trading of metals and minerals, energy and agricultural products.
The IMF's general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, has written letters to Glencore International, to the mining company and to Peru's minister of labour calling on them to reinstate Tomas Castro Oré, Edwin Espinosa Melendrez, Nicolas Cano Richard Arture, Jesus Vasquez Ampuero, Rafael Prado Velarde, Melgar Trinidad Marcos, and any other workers dismissed for their trade union activities. In addition, Malentacchi called on the management of Iscaycruz to provide full compensation for any loss of pay or other benefits. He urged the company to accept the right of employees to belong to a trade union and to begin negotiations for a new collective agreement as soon as possible.
Peru has ratified all core conventions of the International Labour Organisation, which of course cover the rights to freedom of association and to organise and bargain collectively.
Glencore International has worldwide activity in the mining, smelting, refining, processing and trading of metals and minerals, energy and agricultural products.