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

Dying on the job is not the destiny of mine workers!

Jul 30, 2014 

The Soma mine disaster in Turkey in May this year brought the daily horrors of mine workers toiling deep into the belly of the earth to keep the wheels of modern day life turning into sharp focus.

Union fights for safety after 5 killed in Indian shipyard

Jul 23, 2014 

IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, ASSRGWA, which represents workers at the world’s largest shipbreaking yard in India, has organized a mass meeting of safety inspectors following a fatal accident at the site last month.

Namibian tannery workers back at work

Jul 18, 2014 

The strike at Nakara Tannery in Windhoek has ended and workers returned to their stations on 11 July 2014 after an agreement was reached between the employer and the Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union (Manwu).

Namibian tannery workers strike

Jul 4, 2014 

Around 120 members of the Metal and Allied Namibian Workers Union (Manwu) have downed tools at Nakara Tannery in Windhoek demanding transport to and from work.

IndustriALL shares pain in Soma on one-month anniversary of industrial homicide

Jun 25, 2014 

Key mining trade unions from around the world joined IndustriALL Global Union and industriAll Europe in a solidarity mission to the Soma mine site in Turkey, one month on from the mass killing of 301 mineworkers in an avoidable industrial disaster.

HIV/AIDS workplace training in Zambia

Jun 25, 2014 

Women and young people learnt how to implement an effective HIV/AIDS workplace policy at a two-day workshop in Lusaka, Zambia organized by IndustriALL Global Union in June.

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

August 2014

5-6

Automotor Sector Meeting

Sao Paolo, Brazil

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