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The ICEM extended its congratulations to US trade union affiliates over the election of Illinois Senator Barack Obama as President of the country. In opening remarks at the ICEM’s 6 November Presidium in Geneva, both President Senzeni Zokwana and General Secretary Manfred Warda paid tribute to the great role the American trade unions had in electing a progressive President. 
 
“The whole world watched with pride and happiness the results that came from the US Presidential race,” said Zokwana. “The American people chose not only an honourable person, but an African-American. We now hope that our American comrades can convince a Democratic majority in both houses of their Congress to pass a law giving workers a level playing field in their lawful right to organise collectively.” 

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ICEM President Senzeni Zokwana
In a letter to American trade union leaders, Warda said the opening of ICEM’s Presidium was “one of the most cheerful moments ever in a meeting” of the body. 
 
“Indeed, all agreed to congratulate you on your efforts and activities that contributed to this wonderful result,” wrote Warda. “We all feel that Barack Obama’s election is not only the best news for the United States of America, but it also gives so much hope to the rest of the world.” 
 
Another swift reaction to America’s political change came from ICEM Vice President and United Steelworkers (USW) Canadian National Director Ken Neumann. In a letter to Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, he urged Harper to establish a meeting with President-elect Obama to discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). 

“We believe it is the right time for Canada to make a case … about a revitalised Canada-US relationship based on mutual respect for our workers and our environment, something that the current North American Free Trade Agreement does not provide for,” stated Neumann. 
 
“Barack Obama’s stunning election as President of the United States is cause for celebration around the world – and is a golden opportunity for Canada to take up Obama’s invitation to rewrite NAFTA in a way that benefits Canadian, Mexican, and American workers.”

ICEM Pays Tribute to US Unions in Key Role in Election of Barack Obama

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Five hundred Canadian miners at Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. had been on strike for over three months seeking a new collective agreement, one that included a commodity-based bonus scheme. The strike ended last week, 13 November, when members of United Steelworkers Locals 7458, 7689, and 189 voted by 77.5% to ratify a new labour agreement. 
 
Miners and processing plant workers at worksites of PotashCorp in the western Canadian province of Saskatchewan are expected to be back in their jobs this week. 
 
The three-year agreement provides minimum 18% wage increases over that period, with some increases higher. Roger Falconer, USW’s Canadian head of strategic campaign, said, “The members are happy to go back to work.” Included in the back-to-work agreement is retroactive pay during the strike, which began on 7 August, a supplemental market bonus of C$5,000, and shift premium increases which start at C$1.35-an-hour. 
 
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Workers did not achieve commodity-based bonuses – a central issue being the strike – primarily because of the rapid economic downturn now. 
 
They did receive a C$50 increase to vacation bonuses, as well as return-to-work bonuses following layoffs of C$800 for the first two weeks of a furlough, and C$400-per-week after that. 
 
PotashCorp reported a profit increase of more than 400% in 2007 over 2006. The company is the world’s largest fertilizer enterprise, with the operations that were struck, Cory, Allan, and Patience Lake mines and plants, accounting for 18% of all Canadian potash supply and six percent of the world’s capacity. 
 
USW members took their campaign for a fair labour agreement to New York City and London to persuade industry analysts that they were proposals were justified, and that a prolonged strike would severely hurt the company’s financial ledger.

USW Canadian Members End 99-Day Strike at Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan

Statement of Xstrata Union Leaders 
 
We as leaders of unions representing workers at Xstrata have met in Montreal, Quebec on October 15 and 16, 2008. 
 
We have exchanged information and discussed our experiences. 
 
We are concerned that Xstrata’s actions are having a negative impact on workers and communities around the world. We expect Xstrata to operate at the highest labour and environmental standards around the world. 
 
We agreed as follows: 
• To support members of CAW 599 in their struggle in Timmins, Ontario, Canada with the company. 
• To find concrete ways to offer stronger support to each other during collective bargaining, especially for unions entering into bargaining in 2008 and 2009 (including among others: the Falconbridge Workers Union in the Dominican Republic; Altonorte Smelter Workers Union, in Chile, and Antamina Workers Union, in Peru). 
• To promote worker exchanges to promote solidarity and build awareness on workers’ issues. 
• To improve communication between us. We need fast and effective communication as the foundation of our work. We will establish a communications network through the internet. 
• To consult with and educate our members in our local unions. 
• To endorse the campaign of the CFMEU in Australia on workers’ right to be represented by trade unions. We will participate in that campaign through coordinated action. 
• To meet again and bring together more unions representing Xstrata workers. To work with the ICEM and its affiliates. 
• To develop strategies, including media strategies, to advance union campaigns. 
• To establishing an International Solidarity Fund that would provide us with the resources to undertake joint projects and support each other at the appropriate times 
• To work toward: 
• establishing a Workers’ World Council 
• engaging the company in the establishment of common international minimum standards on occupational health, safety and environment. 
 
The following unions and union federations participated in the meeting and endorse this statement. 
 
ICEM - International Federation of Chemical, Energy, and Mining and General Workers’ Unions 
 
From Australia – 
Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) – Australia, including: CFMEU branches at: 
• Xstrata Newlands Coal 
• Xstrata Oaky North Coal 
• Northern District Branches 
 
From Germany - 
IG Metal, Nordenham, Germany 
 
From Canada – 
United Steelworkers (USW), including: 
• USW Local 2020 – Xstrata Nickel, Sudbury, Ontario 
• USW Local 4614 - Fonderie Generale – Montreal, Quebec 
• USW Local 5385 – Brunswick Mining & Smelting, Bathurst, New Brunswick 
• USW Local 6887 – CCR, Montreal, Quebec 
• USW Local 6486 – CEZinc, Montreal, Quebec 
• USW Local 9449 - Raglan, Québec 
• USW Local 7085 – Brunswick Mining & Smelting, Bathurst, New Brunswick 
 
From Chile – 
Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Fundidora Altonorte, Antofagasta, Chile 
 
From the Dominican Republic – 
SUTRAFADO, Falconbridge Workers Union, Dominican Republic 
 
From Peru – 
FNTMMSP, National Federation of Mine and Metalworkers of Peru 
SUTRACOMASA, Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Compañía Minera Antamina, Peru

XSTRATA UNIONS GLOBAL NETWORK

On August 2nd, Unilever announced to the financial community its intention to cut 20,000 jobs world-wide over the next three years, with 60 factories to be closed or disposed of. 
 
Under pressure from shareholders and ratings agencies, Unilever has over the last 7 years closed or sold off over 125 factories around the world, halving the global workforce to 179,000. Over these years, profits have steadily risen. 
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Systematic outsourcing has led to the elimination of permanent jobs at Unilever in many parts of the world and the creation of vast complexes of precarious labour. Outsourcing is now set to increase from 15 to 25% of volume. Many workers who produce for Unilever have been employed on renewable, "temporary" contracts for over a decade! 
 
By looting its own resources, Unilever management has been paying itself bonuses and buying back its own shares with cash made available through job cuts and outsourcing. Cash freed up through restructuring will be used to finance €25-30 billion in dividends and share buybacks. The money will not be invested in the long-term future of the company. 
 
Through closures, job cuts, outsourcing and labour contracting, Unilever is destroying jobs and livelihoods across the globe, harming communities, and weakening the collective strength of Unilever unions. 
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Europe is now being targeted in a major way: 10-12,000 of the announced job cuts will be carried out there. 
 
On Tuesday, December 4th, Unilever unions in Europe will organise a day of action featuring a protest march and public assembly in Rotterdam. Concurrently and throughout the week, unions will stage actions at Unilever plants throughout Europe. 
 
Unilever's attack on jobs in Europe is only the latest in a continuing world-wide attack on employment. Unilever unions throughout the world are called on to support their comrades in Europe and to take global action as part of the fight to halt the global job destruction and to expand global union power at Unilever!

4 December 2007 Joint ICEM/IUF Unilever Message

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The ICEM’s 4th World Congress in Bangkok, Thailand, elected Senzeni Zokwana, president of the National Union of Mineworkers, as President of the Global Union Federation, and Manfred Warda, former head of the International Department of German union IGBCE, and Acting ICEM General Secretary, as General Secretary. 
 
The 22-24 November Congress also saw the full integration of the former World Federation of Industry Workers (WFIW) into the ICEM, as well as the selection of two WFIW representatives to ICEM’s Presidium, and two to the Executive Committee. 
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Italo Rodomonti and Manfred Warda signing the agreement
Representing the former WFIW on ICEM's Presidium are Italo Rodomonti, Belgium, and Achille Dutu, Romania. Former WFIW unionists on the Executive Committee include Wilson Viera, Brazil, and Alphonse Tshimbu, Democratic Republic of Congo, with Justin Daerden and Alphonse De Potter, both from Belgium, servings as Executive Committee substitutes. 
 
Also at the Bangkok Congress, elected to the ICEM Presidium from Western Europe were: Augusto Pascussi, Italy; Hubertus Schmoldt, Germany; Phil McNulty, UK; and Ben Roodhuizen (Netherlands) and Paul Lootens (Belgium) to the rotating seat. 
 
Elected to the Presidium from the Nordic Region: Anders Ferbe, Sweden; and Liv Undheim, Norway. Elected to the Presidium from the Central Europe Region: Juraj Blahak, Slovak Republic. Elected to the Presidium from the Eastern Europe/Central Asia Region was: Ivan Mokhnachuk, Russia. 
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The newly elected ICEM Presidium
Elected to the Presidium from the North American Region: Ken Neumann, Canada; and Dave Coles, Canada. Elected to the Presidium from the Asia-Pacific Region: Kiyoshi Ochiai, Japan; and Chueh-an Chuang, Taiwan. 
 
Elected to the Presidium from the Middle East/North Africa Region was Mohamed El Sayed Morsi Aly of Egypt. Elected from the Sub-Saharan Africa Region to the Presidium was Rayford Mbulu, Zambia. 
 
And elected from the Latin America/Caribbean Region was Sergio Novais, Brazil. 
 
The two Women’s seats to the ICEM Presidium were selected by the Women’s Committee, with Evgenia Esenina, Russia, chair of that committee, and Angeline Chitambo, Zimbabwe, the designees.

ICEM Congress Elects Statutory Officers, Welcomes WFIW

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Workers, retirees, and students marched in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 17 November, in a mass protest against employers, who are stalling needed salary increases. Some 70,000 protestors, most clad in red bibs, marched in a peaceful assembly to one of Ljubljana’s main squares, marking unification of six trade union federations. 
The six union federations jointly called the manifestation to protest employers’ reluctance to pay fair salaries in this round of wage talks in the EU country. The six include Zveza Svoodnih Sindikatov Slovenije (ZSSS), Neodvisnost (KNSS), KSS-Pergam, Konfederacija ’90 of Slovenia, Zveza Sindikatov Alternativa, and Zveza Delacev Solidarnost. 
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Slovenia, which adopted the Euro at the beginning of 2007, is beset by rising prices and an inflation rate that reached 5.1% in 2007. The trade unions seek autumn salary increases of 3.5%, and they want a February 2008 increase tied to inflation, instead of the normal, untimely August inflationary hike. The union federations are jointly calling for a system of productivity bonuses, as well. Slovenia, which became a member-nation of the EU in 2005, has seen a growth rate this year of 6.5%. 
 
In respect to the workers’ 17 November manifestation, President-elect Danilo Turek and Labour Minister Marjeta Cotman attended the mass public event. Earlier, Prime Minister Janez Jansa said protests were the wrong forum to address rising prices and stagnant salaries. The average net salary in Slovenia currently is €820-per-month. 
 
All six leaders of the labour federations addressed the manifestation, and all stated that a general strike was possible if employers did not move from their entrenched wage offer, and were willing to move away from their reluctance to award productivity bonuses to the people generating Slovenia’s growth.

Slovenian Union Federations Unite, 70,000 March in Ljubljana on 17 November

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A campaign for equal treatment for agency workers was launched by the Irish trade union federation SIPTU on 19 November at Liberty Hall in Dublin. The campaign is aimed at securing enabling legislation in Ireland to forbid employment agencies from circumventing existing equality provisions in labour legislation. 
 
The 200,000-member Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU) held a press briefing in the afternoon on 19 November, and then conducted a full public hearing that evening with workplace testimony from victimised contract workers. 
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Under the heading “An Injury to One Is a Concern to All,” SIPTU launched a campaign that includes a petition drive to build support for legislation, as well as materials to secure equal treatment for contract workers in collective agreements. That campaign can be found here <a href="http://www.siptu.ie/agency">www.siptu.ie/agency</a>. 
“The abuse of agency workers is the most serious issue of substance in the workplace,” stated SIPTU General President Jack O’Connor at the launch of the campaign. “The absence of legislation to prevent abuse is not only detrimental to those directly affected, but also harms all other workers because it facilitates the undermining of standards,” he added. 
SIPTU indicated on the day of the launch that Ireland is one of three EU countries in which temporary workers recruited through agencies can be employed at lesser terms and conditions than those in direct employment. O’Connor also hit out at the Irish government for being one of the few countries that is blocking an EU Directive on full rights for contract and agency workers. 
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“We cannot continue with the paradox of social partnership on the one hand, while we are virtually unique in Europe in our treatment of agency workers,” he said. 
SIPTU estimates there are over 520 employment agencies operating in Ireland. The union is campaigning for agency work to be confined to a period no longer than one month, after which an agency employee must become directly employed by the primary employer.

SIPTU Kicks Off ‘Justice for Agency Workers Campaign’ in Ireland

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Health and safety in the US oil refining sector is as dangerous now as it was nearly three years ago when a blast at a Texas City, Texas, BP refinery claimed the lives of 15 contract workers. So say the results of an in-depth survey of health and safety conditions in US refineries, published by North American affiliate United Steelworkers, the Tony Mazzocchi Center for Health, Safety and Environmental Education, and New Perspectives Consulting Group. 
 

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The 90-page study, which critiques operating practices in some 64 variants inside 51 US refineries, sets forth five “Urgent and Critical Actions” for the US downstream industry, as well as another five “Necessary Support Actions.” The recommendations represent an imperative call for better health and safety conditions by oil refiners in the US. 
 
Entitled “Beyond Texas City: The State of Process Safety in the Unionized US Oil Refining Industry,” the survey takes into account a number of criteria, including use of atmospheric vents on process units, failed instrumentation or alarm systems, allowance of non-essential personnel in restricted areas, and entire process safety systems as they relate to start-ups and shut-downs. 
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USW President Leo Gerard
The urgent actions recommended include establishing a Process Safety Team that includes members selected by the trade union; ensuring that Process Hazard Analyses are reviewed and revalidated at least once every three years; redress to four distinct conditions arising from the 23 March 2005 Texas City disaster; developing and implementing full safety reviews prior to start-ups and shut-downs; and providing adequate and skilled staff to ensure safe working conditions. 
 
“These proposals are doable, and while we can’t bring back the 15 workers killed at the BP Texas City refinery, they can make it harder for future deaths and injuries to occur,” said USW President Leo Gerard. 
The BP Texas City explosion occurred near an isomerisation unit that boosts octane levels of petrol. The unit was being restarted at the time of the explosion after undergoing scheduled maintenance. Contract company trailers and traffic were operating nearby the unit. Besides the contract workers who died, 80 workers suffered injuries.

US Steelworkers Release Insightful Safety Study on Downstream US Oil Industry

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ICEM Reconfirms Commitment to Fight HIV/AIDS Pandemic 
On the eve of World AIDS Day, 1 December, the ICEM leadership recommitted to fight the battle to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS through awareness, education, and poverty eradication campaigns. The ICEM’s 4th World Congress, held 22-24 November in Bangkok, Thailand, affirmed that commitment. 
 
“As the newly-elected leaders, we reaffirm ICEM’s commitment to fight HIV/AIDS,” said ICEM President Senzeni Zokwana and General Secretary Manfred Warda. “Hundreds of union leaders representing 180 affiliates in 75 countries signed the pledge for World AIDS Day at our Congress.” 
 
That pledge, signed by not only the 840 trade unions leaders attending the Bangkok Congress, but taken back to national unions for thousands more signatures, commits the trade unionists to take the fight inside the workplace. 
 
It commits to outright rejection of all forms of discrimination and victimisation of people living with HIV/AIDS; it recognises that the gender dimension of HIV/AIDS, and promises to fight for equal gender relations and the empowerment of women; and, in maintaining ICEM’s continued work in this area, it encourages voluntary counselling and testing of workers and family members, as well as providing support for those who disclose their HIV-positive status. 
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The pledge also makes demands of employers and governments. It demands that companies negotiate policies with trade union that are in sync with the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work; it calls on employers to implement awareness-raising and prevention programmes jointly with trade unions; it call on firms operating in remote geographic areas with little or no health services to take responsibility for providing care and treatment; and it promises to undertake efforts to obtain affordable drugs from pharmaceutical companies and production of high-quality generics for those afflicted with the virus. 
 
Regarding governments, the pledge advocates access for all to public health, including free or affordable antiretroviral treatments; it promises to promote legislation on discrimination and social protection; and it promises to lobby donor countries for accelerated financial resources for the global fight against HIV/AIDS. 
 
“The ICEM and its affiliates are strategically positioned in our sectors, and in our thousands of workplaces, to play a direct role in stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS,” said Zokwana and Warda. “On World AIDS Day 2007, we call on all social partners to intensify campaigns in order to reverse the HIV/AIDS pandemic.” 
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Global Fund Approves Round 7 Grants 
The board meeting of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria held in Kunming, China, approved 73 Round 7 grants that will cost US$1,119 million over the first two years and US$2,762 million over five years. As a result of recent new pledges, the Fund has sufficient money to pay for all grants that were recommended by the Technical Review Panel. 
 
Round 7 applicants to the Global Fund submitted fewer, but bigger and better, proposals than applicants in all previous rounds. 
 
The two-year cost of approved Round 7 grants – US$1,119 million over two years – is a record amount. In the six previous rounds, the two-year cost of approved grants ranged from US$571 to 968 million. 
 
The percentage of proposals recommended for approval was also a record – 49%, up from an average of 38% over the previous six rounds. On the other hand, this still means that just over half of all proposals submitted were not approved, despite the fact that there is an enormous need for scaled-up programmes to tackle the three diseases and that there is an increased availability of funding. 
 
The average two-year cost of the proposals recommended for approval in Round 7 was US$15 million – again a record, up from an average of US$10 million over the previous rounds. On the other hand, the number of eligible proposals submitted in Round 7, at 150, was the lowest ever. 
 
The Board's decisions as to which proposals got approval was, as always, entirely based on the advice it received from the Technical Review Panel (TRP), an independent and non-political body of 34 experts from around the world who serve in their personal capacities. No board members or Secretariat employees are members of the TRP. 
 
(Source: Global Fund Press Release, 12 November 2007 and Global Fund Observer Issue 79, 12 November 2007. GFO is a free service of Aidspan <a href="http://www.aidspan.org">www.aidspan.org</a>. To receive GFO, send an email to <a href="mailto:receive-gfo-newsletter@aidspan.org">receive-gfo-newsletter@aidspan.org</a>) 
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News from Affiliates 
The United Mineworkers’ Union in Sierra Leone continues its excellent work in peer education. Two more training workshops were held in Hangha and Jembeh in November. A total of 76 participants attended these two workshops. 
 
The training was conducted in partnership with mining companies, artisanal miners, and the communities. Funding was provided by the ICEM HIV/AIDS project. 
 
The union’s General Secretary, Ezekiel Dyke, attended the Workshop on the Role of the Private Sector in the Fight against HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa in Bamako, capital of Mali, organised by the World Bank. 
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Swedish Project Targets Workplaces 
The Swedish Industrial and Metalworkers’ Union, IF Metall, and the International Council of Swedish Industry are jointly involved in workplace-based HIV/AIDS programmes throughout sub-Saharan Africa. 
 
The project, which is co-funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), presently operates in 25 workplaces of large Swedish multinational companies, involving over 10,000 workers with more than 45,000 family members. 
 
The project aims to strengthen workers and management leadership through joint workplace committees. Through these committees voluntary counselling and testing, peer education, management awareness, condom distribution, couple counselling, and treatment are made possible.
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UNAIDS 2007 Epidemic Update 
The 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that global HIV prevalence - the percentage of people living with HIV - has levelled off and that the number of new infections has fallen, in part as a result of the impact of HIV programmes. 
 
However, in 2007, 33.2 million people were estimated to be living with HIV, 2.5 million people became newly infected, two-thirds of them in sub-Saharan Africa, and 2.1 million people died of AIDS. 
 
The significant reduction from almost 40 million people infected at the end of 2006 is only, to a small extent, due to the impact of HIV programmes. The new report reflects improved and expanded epidemiological data and analyses that present a better understanding of the global epidemic. These new data and advances in methodology have resulted in substantial revisions from previous estimates. 
 
While the global prevalence of HIV infection—the percentage of people infected with HIV—has levelled off, the total number of people living with HIV is increasing because of ongoing acquisition of HIV infection, combined with longer survival times, in a continuously growing general population. 
 
(Source: UNAIDS Press Release, 20 November. The report can be accessed at <a href="http://www.unaids.org">www.unaids.org</a>) 
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News from the Global Union Programme and Global Unions 
 
In its most recent HIV/AIDS updates (nos. 32 and 33 of 1 and 28 November) the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) <a href="http://www.itfglobal.org">www.itfglobal.org</a> reports on the signing of a joint commitment of the central unions in India, and the launching by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees of an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign among high-risk groups in Nepal. 
 
On the eve of World AIDS Day, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) launched a global action plan against HIV/AIDS. It will focus on three main aims: enhance HIV/AIDS work by ITUC affiliates; strengthen global advocacy on HIV/AIDS; and coordination and cooperation between national union centres and the Global Union Federations. (Source: ITUC Press Release, 30 November).

ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin

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The European Union’s Council of Ministers, on 5 December, backed away from passing an EU Directive on Agency Workers. The Directive, if passed, would have entitled agency workers to the same pay, benefits, and conditions of work as full-time staff after a six-week period. 
 
The proposed Directive, which was first drafted in 2002, has been blocked now for three years, primarily by UK’s Labour Party government. In the 5 December meeting of the EU Employment Council, the Portuguese presidency was ready to ballot member countries under the EU’s qualified-majority voting system, but the vote did not occur due to consideration of other UK positions. Besides the UK, Germany, Ireland, and Malta were member nations opposed. France and Poland had made compromises to accept the Directive. 
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The Agency Workers’ Directive is sure to be brought up again in early 2008, when Slovenia takes the presidency of the EU. The UK government’s position has been bolstered by British business groups, who insist on flexible, disposable workforces in the name of competitiveness. 
 
Generally across Europe, temporary or agency workers are paid less, receive less training, and are prone to a higher rate of workplace accidents. 
 
Labour unions were incensed by the Brown government’s continuation of Tony Blair policies. In leading up to the vote, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Secretary General John Monks, a British citizen, spoke before the UK’s House of Commons on the issue. “Agency workers are getting a second-class deal. And you – our government – are defending that, the indefensible.” 
 
Following the 5 December non-action by the EU, UK Trades Union Congress General Secretary Brendan Barber stated, “This is a bad day for rights at work across Europe, but especially in the UK. Contrary to business scare-mongering, this directive would not stop agencies providing temporary staff to employers. It would make it more difficult to undercut wages and conditions, and help slow the growth of a two-tier workforce.”

EU Ignores Equal Treatment for Agency Workers in Failure to Pass Directive

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