13 января, 2011Voting in the Public Eye Award 2011 for the most evil company of the year has started: Good Electronics and the IMF urge you to vote for Foxconn! Call upon your friends, colleagues and constituencies to spread the word!
13 января, 2011Following the 3rd international meeting of the Tenaris Workers' World Council in Brazil last November, the union in Argentina negotiates a new permanent profit sharing system at the Campana plant; in Colombia Jairo del Rio seeks government intervention in the bargaining process; and, USW in Canada requests a meeting with Tenaris CEO Paolo Rocca.
7 января, 2011The IMF Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean highlighted the impact of job insecurity and employers' refusal to recognise the freedom of association. He also requested greater ILO cooperation in strengthening national and international collective bargaining at the sector level.
17 января, 2011A worker at the Toquepala opencast mine has died after a landslip from an area that has experienced repeated rock falls. The IMF calls for those responsible to be brought to justice.
7 мая, 2010Argentinean metalworkers have just negotiated a pay deal that includes a 15 per cent pay rise from April 1 and a further 10 per cent on July 1 this year.
6 мая, 2010Workers of a smelting plant and seven mines in Georgia organized a series of industrial actions to protect their rights and improve working conditions. The management initially responded with intimidation and harassment, but has since made some concessions and talks are continuing.
6 мая, 2010Mexican Miners' Union Convention decides to continue the four-year old struggle for trade union autonomy and an end to Grupo Mexico and Mexican government abuse.
6 мая, 2010A Tribunal resolution repudiates government violations of human and trade union rights and calls for compliance with ILO Conventions 87 and 98 on the Freedom of Association and the Right to Organise.
6 мая, 2010Fellesforbundet secures an estimated three per cent rise for metal workers in its new two year sector collective agreement with Norsk Industri.
5 мая, 2010Africa: The political economy of Africa has taken another dark turn staggering under the three crises of economy, food and climate. These three crises are interdependent and find their origin in the current system of accumulation and plundering of resources by large transnational corporations. Developing a response to any of these crises can not be done in isolation to the others and hoping to be rescued by the Global North is a strategy that has historically delivered little more than empty promises. Industrialisation, decent work and strong trade unions ensuring fair production and fair trade are prerequisites to addressing poverty in Africa and averting a deepening humanitarian disaster.
