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HUGO BOSS: Luxury brand, garbage employer

Mar 2, 2015

This high-end clothing brand puts up every possible barrier to union organizing at its most important production factory, in Izmir, Turkey. Company management ruthlessly sacks key union members, and has been found guilty of this in Turkey’s High Court of Appeals.

Rio Tinto seeks conflict with unions at global meeting

Feb 23, 2015

Rio Tinto cut short a meeting with global union leaders when the leaders rejected the company’s demand to end their campaign exposing Rio Tinto’s unsustainable practices.

Mining

8 miners die at lethal Pakistani coalfield

Mar 3, 2015

Eight coalminers have died and 14 more have been injured following a methane explosion at the Duki Coal Mine in Pakistan.

Mining

Health and safety

Victory for 5,000 General Motors strikers in Brazil

Mar 3, 2015

A six-day strike by more than 5,000 workers at General Motors in Brazil has resulted in a union victory, with the car manufacturer dropping plans to lay off 800 staff.

Automotive

Germany: chemical workers determined in negotiations

Mar 2, 2015

Sector-wide collective bargaining rounds covering 550,000 chemical workers in Germany are continuing as the latest negotiations on 24 February in Kassel failed to reach a conclusion.

Chemical

Right to strike upheld at ILO

Feb 26, 2015

After months of pressure from trade unions, the right to strike has been recognized by the employers’ group at the International Labour Organization (ILO) following a crucial tripartite meeting in Geneva from 23 to 25 February.

Confronting global capital

Severe union busting in Georgia

Feb 26, 2015

Georgia’s leading mining company, Rich Minerals Group (RMG) is coming down on IndustriALL affiliate Metallurgy, Mining and Chemical Industry Workers’ Union (TUMMCIWG) at their gold and copper operations.

Mining

Human & trade union rights

ThyssenKrupp imposes cuts at the expense of the weak at AST Terni

Feb 26, 2015

The Italian trade unions CGIL, CISL and UIL are ready to start a labour dispute in Umbria, Italy at ThyssenKrupp’s Terni facility if the company continues its policy of marginalizing the most vulnerable temporary workforce.

Base metals

STOP Precarious Work

All over the world, the IndustriALL Global Union family is mobilizing for a living wage for all workers. In 2014, good steps forward were taken in Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and elsewhere. But there is a long way to go.

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#UK garment workers earning 3 £ per hour, less than a half of the minimum wage - exploitation of migrants http://t.co/3j70vN9QW5

RT @Jared_R_Cassidy: Biggest threat to economic prosperity is rising inequality - Jyrki Raina. @IndustriALL_GU @AWUnion #AWU2015

RT @AWUnion: Multinationals channel more money through "hubs" in Singapore, Switzerland than ever before: @ato_gov_au http://t.co/Y1zQaBFiX…

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