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26.09.2013 The mission included delegates from the United Steelworkers of America and the National Union of Mineworkers in South Africa, and was accompanied by IndustriALL Global Union’s Director of Mining, Glen Mpufane. During the three days, the mission delegates ...

14.06.2012 GLOBAL/COPENHAGEN: More than 1,000 unionists from every corner of the globe are meeting in Copenhagen June 18 to 20, 2102 to form IndustriALL Global Union, representing 50 million workers in 140 countries in the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors. "...

14.06.2012 UNITED KINGDOM: Affiliates of the ICEM, IMF, and ITGLWF are uniting in action around the world in support of the United Steelworkers (USW) campaign to push Rio Tinto "Off the Podium". Scores of affiliates are writing to and taking action at the national r...

14.06.2012 INDIA: Eleven employees, including some of the senior officers, were killed and several sustained burn injuries in a major accident in Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL) Visakhapatnam steel plant on June 13, 2012. The accident occurred in the recently expa...

14.06.2012 GLOBAL: International unions warned of a dangerous credibility gap between G20 Leaders' past statements on jobs and many G20 governments' actions that are pushing economies back into recession and destroying jobs. The warning came as global unemployment c...

13.06.2012 GENEVA: It was a full house in room IV of the International Labour Organization, where representatives from the international labour movement and independent union movement in Mexico discussed Protection Contracts and barriers to Freedom of Association in...

12.06.2012 ASIA-PACIFIC: Since 2009, IMF Indian affiliates, Indian National Metalworkers' Federation (INMF) and Steel Metal and Engineering Workers Federation of India (SMEFI) have successfully organized 24,868 steel workers in three states, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand ...

11.06.2012 GLOBAL:  On Friday June 8, Said Iqbal, President of Indonesian national centre KSBI and President of IMF affiliate FSPMI delivered a speech to the plenary of the International Labour Conference (ILC) in which he drew attention to the two most urgent probl...

06.06.2012 GLOBAL: 2011 was a difficult and often dangerous year for workers throughout the world, with those who dared stand up for their trade union rights facing dismissal, arrest, imprisonment and even death. That in essence is the picture that emerges from the ...

05.06.2012 FRANCE: Government and industry delegates from OECD and non-OECD economies attended the 72nd session of the OECD Steel Committee from May 31 to June 1. The Committee has 33 members as well as a number of observers and accounts for around 76 per cent of th...

05.06.2012 GLOBAL: Since 1926, the International Labour Conference (ILC) has discussed the most serious cases included in the annual report of the ILO's Committee of Experts, a 17-member committee of eminent and independent international jurists. This, year the Inte...

04.06.2012 TAIWAN-R.O.C:  Over 80 leaders of metalworkers' unions in the Asia and the Pacific region gathered together at the 5th Asian Metalworkers' Liaison Conference (AMLC) on May 29 and 30 in Kaohsiung, to share their experiences and discuss the ongoing process ...

03.06.2012 MEXICO: Women workers dismissed by the auto parts company Flex-N-Gate have asked Volkswagen Mexico to apply the Bratislava Declaration to ensure their labour rights are respected by the company. The Bratislava Declaration is an agreement between Volkswage...

31.05.2012 NEPAL: IndustriALL Global Union, to be created at its founding Congress in June 2012, has already begun to make a mark on the world through the courageous act of Nepalese trade unionist Dorje Khatri, member of the central committee of the Union of Trekkin...

31.05.2012 GLOBAL: On May 31, the Hong Kong labour rights organization Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) released a new report "Sweatshops are good for Apple and Foxconn, but not for workers". The report is an answer to a recent remark by ...

30.05.2012 MEXICO/CANADA:  Communal landowners from Ejido La Sierrita, municipality of Tlahualilo, in the state of Durango, and workers from La Platosa mine in the same state have jointly filed a complaint against Excellon Resources on May 29 with government offices...

30.05.2012 GENEVA: The International Labour Conference (ILC) is underway in Geneva, Switzerland at the UN's International Labour Organization. Issues being discussed include youth employment, social protection floors, and the application of fundamental principles an...

30.05.2012 RUSSIA: On May 19 the Interregional Trade Union of Autoworkers (ITUA) local at Nissan held a workers' conference, which adopted the collective demands. On May 24 the management announced the date of the first round of negotiations, May 31. The demands are...

30.05.2012 GENEVA:  On May 29, 2012 following a vote at the session of the ILO Governing Body, Guy Ryder, former General Secretary of the ITUC became the tenth Director General of the ILO since its foundation in 1919. Ryder won the election with 30 votes against 26 ...

28.05.2012 UNITED STATES: Lockheed Martin announced on May 24 that it is bringing in temporary workers at its site in Fort Worth, Texas in response to strike action by members of the IMF North American affiliate International Association of Machinists and Aerospace ...