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12.07.2005 The CEP of Canada has chosen Abitibi-Consolidated Inc. as lead company for paper industry bargaining in eastern Canada. CEP represents 4,200 workers at 14 Abitibi worksites from Ontario to Newfoundland. The agreement with Montreal based Abitibi will be us...

12.07.2005 Letter writing to Ukrainian embassies is the message from the ICEM to all affiliates over the repressive and violent measures taken against Mikhail Volynets and his family. Volynets is president of ICEM affiliate Miners’ Independent Trade Union of Ukraine...

12.07.2005 Two US ICEM affiliates—USWA and PACE—have been jointly working on legislative and member mobilization projects for several years. The two unions have now officially consummated that bond by entering into a formal strategic alliance with each other. The co...

12.07.2005 German and French unions are teaming up to block the hostile takeover of German-French pharmaceutical Aventis by French rival Sanofi-Synthelabo. Hubertus Schmoldt, president of German IGBCE and Patrick Pierron, general secretary of the French union FCE-CF...

12.07.2005 ICEM Dutch affiliate FNV Bondgenoten and four other unions at DSM’s chemical plant in Geleen engaged in a stop-work march and rally 12 April at the firm’s headquarters in nearby Heerlen in the southern NL province of Limburg. Some 2,500 workers participat...

12.07.2005 The National Union of Mineworkers in South Africa still has not received answers to the sudden lay-offs of 400 diamond miners employed by Antwerp-based Rex Diamond Mining at the Loxton Mine in the Northern Cape. Despite inquiries by the NUM and ICEM over ...

12.07.2005 The ICEM banner in Democratic Republic of Congo continues to show hope for the war-torn country. Last month 13 unions led by ICEM’s two Congolese affiliates—the petrol/chemical union FNTPEC and mining union FENAMICO—came together in unity and industrial d...

12.07.2005 The CEP, meanwhile, welcomed 340 Shell oil workers from Montreal into their ranks. An unaffiliated local union there voted to join Canada’s dominate energy, paper and communications union and will become CEP Local 121....

12.07.2005 The Communications, Energy, Paperworkers Union of Canada picked Suncor Energy last month as the pattern-setter for this year’s round of oil talks. That means some 10,000 CEP members at five majors and several smaller companies will have similar terms in p...

12.07.2005 A dispute has surfaced between ICEM affiliate Associated Mineworkers of Zimbabwe and that country’s Council of Mines. The employers’ group walked out of negotiations after refusing to award reasonable wage and salary adjustments, and then unilaterally gra...