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Global brands pull together on Bangladesh safety deal

Global brands pull together on Bangladesh safety deal

23.05.2013 

Major retail companies behind the global Bangladesh Fire and Safety Accord showed their commitment to improving the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers at the kick-off meeting, held at the International Labour Organisation in Geneva today.

IndustriALL and IF Metall working for solution at Electrolux Thailand

12.04.2013 

IndustriALL Global Union together with Swedish-based affiliate IF Metall are actively pushing for a just solution with full reinstatement of all union members at GFA partner Electrolux.

National industry agreements reached in Sweden

12.04.2013 

After a long set of negotiations, Swedish industrial workers and employers reached an agreement for wages to rise 6.8 per cent over the next three years.

Victory! Napoleon Gomez taken off Interpol red alert list

11.04.2013 

Finally the sham case keeping the head of Mexico’s Los Mineros, Napoleon Gomez, on the Interpol red alert list has been scrapped after years of legal campaigning.

IndustriALL angered by Colombian death threats

11.04.2013 

Enough is enough. Colombian trade unionists continue to live under constant threat of assassination, in a country where 4,000 union leaders have been murdered in the last 25 years. On 1 April a notorious paramilitary group released a list of murder targets including dozens of trade union leaders in the IndustriALL global family.

MENA unions support Iraqi oil leader

11.04.2013 

IndustriALL affiliates in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) express support to Iraqi oil union leader Hassan Juma’a Awad, who faces criminal charges for organizing strikes. MENA unions pledge to step up efforts on organizing, networking and workers’ rights.

JCM Spring Labor Offensive Status Report

11.04.2013 

Every year in February, IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the Japan Council of Metalworkers' Unions (JCM) participates in the Spring Labor Offensive, where they submit demands to management on wage and working conditions, and engage in collective bargaining.

Fighting back on contract work in Nigeria’s oil and gas sector

11.04.2013 

Nigerian affiliates in the oil and gas sector to discuss precarious work which thrives in Nigeria because of weak and obsolete labour laws, high level of unemployment, political patronage and lack of political will to create decent jobs.

The drama of Rusal Friguia workers in Guinea

11.04.2013 

Locked-out workers at the Friguia aluminium plant of Russian-based multinational Rusal have been picketing with their families in front of the local authorities’ offices for several days, calling for a reopening of the plant.

Upcoming events

May 2013

2-3

Alcoa Network Meeting

Pittsburgh, USA

14

IndustriALL Regional Women's Conference of Latin America and the Caribbean

Buenos Aires, Argentina

14-15

Coordination of Trade Union Networks and Implementation of Global Framework Agreements in the chemical and related industries in Asia-Pacific

Bangkok, Thailand

15-16

IndustriALL Regional Conference in Latin America and the Caribbean

Buenos Aires, Argentina

21-22

IndustriALL Regional Mining Conference

Santiago, Chile

22-23

Trade Union Consultative Conference on Developing a Labour Agenda for Socially Sustainable Development in the Global South

Santiago, Chile

23-24

Final Evaluation of CUT Mining Project

Lima, Peru

24

IndustriALL Precarious Work Project Meeting

Lima, Peru

27-28

Caterpillar network meeting

Esher, United Kingdom

27

IndustriALL Global Women's Committee

Frankfurt, Germany

28-29

IndustriALL Executive Committee Meeting

Frankfurt, Germany

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Jyrki Raina speaks about the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh

After weeks of tough negotiations IndustriALL Global Union together with our sister international UNI Global Union have secured a legally binding agreement an Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh together with the leading brands and retailors of the world.

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