Colombia: IndustriALL backs Sintracarbon’s fight for a fair deal3 March, 2016A sector in crisis should promote dialogue and cooperation instead of using the crisis as a pretext to get rid of acquired rights. This is IndustriALL Global Union’s message to Cerrejon, on the eve of a strike vote provoked by the company’s refusal to negotiate a collective agreement.
3,500 Mexican workers strike against Arcelor Mittal 10 March, 2016IndustriALL Global Union affiliate, the Mexican Miners’ and Metalworkers’ Union also known as ‘Los Mineros’, has launched a strike against Arcelor Mittal at its steel plant in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán in western Mexico.
Another coal mine explosion in Pakistan: five killed and eight injured5 April, 2016Avoidable mining deaths continue in Pakistan as a methane gas explosion claims the lives of another five miners on 2 April 2016.
Dialogue addresses workplace issues at AngloAmerican global operations15 December, 2022As part of the implementation of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in May 2021, IndustriALL continues to develop sound industrial relations across the global operations of mining giant AngloAmerican.
Union to fight Anglo American attempts to avoid health and safety laws 28 June, 2023IndustriALL's affiliate, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), is planning to picket at the Anglo American offices in Johannesburg on 14 July to protest proposals to avoid stricter health and safety laws at some of the mining multinational's South African operations.
IndustriALL launches campaign for health and safety in Pakistan mines15 March, 2018Ten IndustriALL Global Union affiliates are urging the government of Pakistan to ratify ILO Convention 176 (C176) on Safety and Health in Mines. This follows a decision by IndustriALL’s Executive Committee in November 2017, for a global campaign to end fatalities in Pakistani mines.
Ukrainian miners stage protest over unpaid wages21 June, 2018Coalminers organized a mass protest on 19 and 20 June in front of Verhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) in the hope of attracting attention of the parliamentarians to the dreadful situation in the coal mining sector and its effects on conditions for coalminers.
South Africa: Union calls for improved health and safety after four mineworkers are killed at Sibanye Stillwater gold mine13 June, 2018The deaths at Sibanye Stillwater operations in 2018 go beyond previous years with 11 killed in 2016, and nine in 2017. This year the death toll is already at 18 showing that the company’s operations are increasingly becoming death-traps for mineworkers.
South Africa: NUMSA condemns police violence against striking South 32 workers6 October, 2017Three workers were injured and taken to hospital when police fired rubber bullets at picketing workers at South 32’s aluminium smelter in Richards Bay in the KwaZulu-Natal province on 2 October.
Guinea: Mineworkers give notice to strike6 November, 2017Mineworkers at Societe AngloGold Ashanti de Guinee (SAG), a subsidiary of AngloGold Ashanti, have given notice to go on strike on 7 November if their grievances are not met.
