Health and safety

IndustriAll demands strong international health and safety standards and empowering workers' rights to:
  -  know about hazards;
  -  refuse or stop unsafe work; and
  -  participate in health and safety decision making.
Workers' rights, employers' responsibilities, and good laws, equal healthy and safe workplaces!

Contact person:

Brian Kohler
email: bkohler@industriall-union.org
Tel. +41 22 304 18 49
Fax: +41 22 304 1841

Health and safety

9 miners dead and 23 missing after explosion in Ukrainian coal mine

Mar 4, 2015 

A gas explosion at the depth of 1230 meters occurred in the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk region of Ukraine. At that moment some 230 miners were working underground.

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. 

USA: Workers fight back against giant oil companies

Feb 24, 2015 

Thousands of members of IndustriALL affiliate United Steelworkers (USW) National Oil Bargaining Program have gone on strike over health and safety issues in the industry.

IndustriALL calls for justice on the ninth anniversary of the industrial homicide at Pasta de Conchos

Feb 19, 2015 

Nine years have gone by since tragedy struck at Pasta de Conchos. Sixty-five miners lost their lives after being trapped by an explosion at this Grupo Mexico mine. Sixty-three bodies were never recovered and are still in the mine.

Philippines: Strike at EPZ ends as victory for workers

Feb 19, 2015 

In a part of the Philippines well-known for imposing a “no-union, no-strike” policy, 500 workers in the Export Processing Zone in Cavite are celebrating a victory in union recognition and a concluded collective agreement.

Oil strike escalates in US

Feb 12, 2015 

Faced with increased employer intransigence in the US the United Steelworkers (USW) oil industry strike, principally in support of demands for improved safety provisions has escalated as it entered its second week. 

Health and safety

IndustriAll demands strong international health and safety standards and empowering workers' rights to:
  -  know about hazards;
  -  refuse or stop unsafe work; and
  -  participate in health and safety decision making.
Workers' rights, employers' responsibilities, and good laws, equal healthy and safe workplaces!

Contact person:

Brian Kohler
email: bkohler@industriall-union.org
Tel. +41 22 304 18 49
Fax: +41 22 304 1841

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March

10-11

Towards Sustainable Industrial and Energy Policy

Windhoek, Namibia

23-24

IndustriALL Trade Union Network for Latin America and the Caribbean

Buenos Aires, Argentina

26

International Paper (IP) Preparatory Meeting

Sao Paolo, Brazil

30-31

IndustriALL Global Union's Textile Working Group Meeting

Tokyo, Japan

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