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

Act now for Rubén Darío Montoya Obando!

07.03.2014 

Rubén Darío Montoya Obando has been on a hunger strike since February, protesting against Tenaris – Tubos Caribe’s, his former employer, refusal to pay compensation for a serious work place accident he suffered in 2002.

International Asbestos Conference

05.03.2014 

The BWI, in partnership with IndustriALL Global Union, the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers, the Austrian trade Union GBH, and the International Ban Asbestos Secretariat is pleased to announce an international conference on asbestos to take place in Vienna on the 6th and 7th of May 2014.

Fight against precarious work: a central demand in Rio Tinto Campaign

02.03.2014 

Rio Tinto is notorious for its union bashing tactics and abuse of precarious workers. As a consequence, IndustriALL Global Union launched in Cape Town, South Africa, on 6 February, its global corporate campaign against mining giant Rio Tinto. The main aim of this campaign is to force a seismic shift in the way Rio Tinto relates to workers and trade unions across their operations.

Global union leader supports demands by Indonesian workers

13.02.2014 

International labour leader and General Secretary of IndustriALL Global Union, Jyrki Raina will be joined by Indonesian trade union hero Said Iqbal for a press conference on 14 February 2014.

Bangladesh Accord announces establishment of factory safety inspection standards

15.01.2014 

The technical team of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, signed between IndustriALL, UNI Global Union and more than 120 global garment companies, has finalized the standards to be used for factory inspections.

Fire kills seven and injures three in Italy

05.12.2013 

At least seven migrant garment workers of Chinese origin died and three were injured in the blaze on 1 December 2013 in an industrial zone of the town of Prato in Tuscany region of Italy.

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

Upcoming events

March 2014

5

Argentina´s IndustriAll National Council

Montevideo, Uruguay

11-12

Youth Regional Semminar for Evaluation, Planification and Coordination SASK

Mexico

11-13

Strategic Planification Semminar for Mining and Energy Unions - CUSME LO-TCO

Colombia

13-14

Union Building Seminar UNIFOR

Mexico

19-21

Unity building conference Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

24-25

Union Building Seminar LO-TCO

Montevideo, Uruguay

24-25

IndustriALL MENA Regional Conference

Amman, Jordan

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