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On 12 June, civil society across everywhere will mark World Day Against Child Labour, this year coming on the 10th anniversary of adoption of ILO Convention 182, the convention that condemns the worst forms of child labour. In step with this year&rsquo;s International Labour Conference gender theme, the ILO will focus 12 June on the exploitation of young girls in child labour. 
 
The ILO estimates that 100 million girls are involved in child labour. The ICEM believes that the first and most important instrument toward decent work is education. A child and young adult&rsquo;s education is the surest and securest way to escape poverty, and to grow as an adult into a decent and secure livelihood. 

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On this World Day Against Child Labour, the ICEM draws attention to our trade union affiliate at the Firestone Rubber Plantation in Liberia, a union that still must carry the fight to leave behind the scars of child labour. Despite a new collective agreement, Firestone has not implemented parts of it, including reductions on quotas for rubber tapping. It was these quotas that demanded children be used in order to fulfil production. 
 
The ICEM calls attention to the rescue of 37 children in New Delhi, India, last week, who were restrained and bonded while performing needle-stitch work. For every such rescue, there are scores more illegal worksites that cheat and exploit children. The ICEM also makes note of a report from an NGO in Uzbekistan that the use of child labour in cotton fields is growing and becoming an even bigger menace. In Thailand, we know, it is common to abuse Lao and Burmese children while at work in sweatshops. 
 
There are countless stories that certify child labour as the number one obstacle to decent work. The ICEM encourages everyone to acknowledge 12 June, but also to use it as the day to make a year-long commitment to expose and eradicate all forms of child labour.

12 June, Day Against Child Labour, Another Bold Reminder

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Pakistan'ın İslamabad kentinde on binlerce iş&ccedil;i ge&ccedil;en hafta, 26 Mayıs 2009, sokağa d&ouml;k&uuml;ld&uuml;. İş&ccedil;iler h&uuml;k&uuml;metin gelecek yılki federal b&uuml;t&ccedil;ede &ldquo;ulusal &uuml;cret skalası&rdquo;nın geliştirilmesini ve kamu hizmetlerinin &ouml;zelleştirilmesi planına son vermesini talep ettiler. 21 Mayıs 2009 Perşembe g&uuml;n&uuml; Meclis&ouml;n&uuml;ne y&uuml;r&uuml;yen iş&ccedil;iler burada taleplerini i&ccedil;eren kapsamlı bir belgeyi Meclis Başkanı'na ilettiler. 
Pakistan'da bug&uuml;n elektrik, petrol, doğalgaz, posta, demiryolu taşımacılığı ve demir &ccedil;elik end&uuml;strileri &ouml;zelleştirme riski ile karşı karşıya bulunuyor. 
Kararlı ICEM &uuml;yesi Pakistan WAPDA Sendikası protestonun d&uuml;zenlenmesinde &ouml;nemli bir rol oynadı. Ayrıca Meclis &ouml;n&uuml;nde toplanan iş&ccedil;ilerin taşeron iş&ccedil;iliği konusundaki talepleri eylemdeki bir diğer &ouml;nemli gelişmeydi. Eylemde işletmelerin taşeron iş&ccedil;ilere d&uuml;zenli istihdam edilen iş&ccedil;ilere sunduğu koşulları sunması y&ouml;n&uuml;nde g&uuml;&ccedil;l&uuml; bir &ccedil;ağrı yapıldı. Pakistan sendikalarına g&ouml;re tarihi ge&ccedil;miş Pakistan İş Kanunu'nun ger&ccedil;ek bir reforma ihtiyacı var. 
Su ve enerji Bakanı Pervez Aşraf'ın 23 Mayıs 2009 tarihinde WAPDA ile yaptığı toplantı bu konuda h&uuml;k&uuml;metin tavrının umut verici olduğunun bir işaretiydi. Toplantıda ulusal enerji kıtlığı ile m&uuml;cadele ve 2009 yılının sonuna kadar bunun &uuml;stesinden gelinmesi konusundaki stratejiler tartışıldı. Tasarlanan yeni projeler arasında Lahor'da T&uuml;rkiye ile anlaşmalı olarak yeni bir enerji santralinin kurulması ve devam eden Neelum-Jahlum ve Başa Barajı imşası da var. 
Sendika y&ouml;netiminin enerji bakanı ile yaptığı bu g&ouml;r&uuml;şmelerde WAPDA &uuml;yesi su ve enerji işkolu &ccedil;alışanlarının g&uuml;nl&uuml;k &uuml;cretlerinde de d&uuml;zenleme yapılması konusunda bir uzlaşmaya varıldı. WAPDA'ya &uuml;ye &ccedil;alışanların ev kiralarının %45'inin &ouml;denmesi ve Larkana'da 50 yataklı bir hastanenin WAPDA &uuml;yelerinin hizmetine sunulması kararlaştırıldı.

Pakistan sendikası WAPDA ücretlerin ve çalışma koşullarının iyileştirilmesi için sokağa çıktı.

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The three-day Congress of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in South Africa late last week provided stark reminder that tensions do exist on certain issues between trade unions and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party. One such issue is the contentious matter of labour brokers. 
ANC General Secretary Gwede Mantashe, himself a former NUM General Secretary and ICEM Executive member, argued on the first day that certain actions by labour unions might prove &ldquo;counter-productive&rdquo; with the ANC and the new Zuma government. But earlier, Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told delegates that in current wage talks throughout the country, it is wrong to think that workers should pick up a share of the economic burden. 
Vavi called it &ldquo;scandalous&rdquo; that the first response to this economic crisis is for workers to lower their pay demands. &ldquo;I say No to the CEOs who have watched their salaries grow by 150% each year and now say it is workers who must lower their demands,&rdquo; Vavi said. 
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ICEM President Senzeni Zokwana
The NUM&rsquo;s Triennial Congress was held at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, near Johannesburg. The union conducted debates, deliberations, and their elections under two banners, &ldquo;Members First Today and Forever&rdquo; and &ldquo;Strengthen Solidarity, Deepen Class Consciousness.&rdquo; Delegates attended from all 11 regions of the 320,000-member NUM to this 12th policy-shaping Congress. 
One of the policies adopted is an outright ban on the use of labour brokers in South Africa. The NUM calls it the biggest threat to decent work in the country today. The NUM stands along side COSATU and other unions on the ban, while the ANC government has said it will introduce laws that more closely regulate contract work, subcontracting, and outsourcing. 
NUM President Senzeni Zokwana, who also is ICEM President, gave a forceful and moving speech to open the Congress on 28 May by stating, &ldquo;Let no one here believe we are going to settle for low wages. We will demand a living wage for mineworkers, construction workers, and energy workers.&rdquo; 
Zokwana called for an end to labour brokering, saying it is the creator of detrimental work conditions and the beginning of slave wages. 
South Africa Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana also criticised labour brokers. &ldquo;These companies send the labour of workers to the highest bidder and then they pay them the lowest possible wage,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It is an extreme form of free market labour capitalism. It allows workers to be traded for profit just as if they are meat or vegetables.&rdquo; 
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ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda
ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda told delegates that the Global Union Federation stands with them in calling for the ban, calling Contract and Agency Labour &ldquo;one of the worst plagues of globalisation.&rdquo; Warda added that &ldquo;the neoliberal model and the greed that it encouraged&rdquo; has led the whole world to the edge of economic disaster. &ldquo;We need a world of equality and regulated financial governance now more than at any previous time.&rdquo; 
Warda paid tribute to the NUM&rsquo;s leading role inside Africa related to trade-union building, and he also mentioned the union&rsquo;s exemplary work in HIV/AIDS prevention and in mine safety. Warda also used the NUM forum to issue a call for unity among the trade unions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). 
Zokwana was re-elected President of NUM, while ICEM Executive member Frans Baleni won re-election as General Secretary.

NUM Stands Pat on Ban of Labour Brokers at 12th Congress

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Following the ICEM&rsquo;s Executive Committee Meetings late in June in Geneva, and the two-day International Nuclear Workers&rsquo; Union Network (INWUN) conference, the ICEM held a wider Electric Power Workers&rsquo; Conference on 27 June. 
 
Under the chairmanship of Lars Myhre, ICEM Energy Industries Section Chairman, the conference saw participation of trade unions involved in the production and distribution of electric power, regardless of the method of generation used. 
 
A number of presently unaffiliated trade unions from the North America electric industry had been invited and a union representing power workers of British Colombia, Canada, Local 38 of the Canadian Office and Professional Employees&rsquo; Union, was in attendance. 
 
After an opening session where speeches of welcome preceded a detailed presentation of the global industry and recent ICEM work, made by Energy Officer Jim Catterson, a presentation on ICEM&rsquo;s Sustainable Development policy was made by Health, Safety, Sustainability Officer Brian Kohler. 

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Michael Langford, Lars Mhyre, Manfred Warda
The conference focused on key priorities of ICEM including Global Framework Agreements, networks, and campaigns. On global agreements, an overview by ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda was followed by a detailed presentation on the EDF agreement by Marc Ferron of French affiliate FCE-CFDT. 
 
Ferron is the secretary of the coordinating committee established within the EDF agreement, and his presentation generated much interest and discussion. A second session focused on network building with presentations on the previous two days of INWUN meetings, done by INWUN Chairman David Shier of the Canadian Power Workers&rsquo; Union, and on the Asia-Pacific Electric Power Workers&rsquo; Network, a presentation made by a colleague from Japan. 
 
A third focus of the conference was on campaigning and following an overview of recent ICEM campaigns in the industry by ICEM Information and Campaigns Officer Dick Blin, the meeting heard a report of the ongoing campaign for a first collective agreement at Covanta in the US state of Massachusetts by Michael Langford, President of the Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA). This presentation focussed on the international aspects of the struggle for justice, and also generated considerable interest and discussion. 
 
The electric conference then drew together the discussions under a general theme of building and strengthening trade unions throughout the industry. Iraq was clearly focused on as an immediate priority following a moving presentation of the situation there by Hashmeyia Saadawi, the President of ICEM-affiliated General Union of Electricity Workers and Technicians (GFIW) and a member of the ICEM Executive. She gave a detailed report on the daily dangers involved in trade union work in Iraq and her presentation centered on the lack of regular electric power supply service there, and on safety and health problems, which has led to an appalling rate of accidents and deaths record in the industry. 
 
Participants also congratulated Hashmeyia Saadawi on her recent award of the prestigious Febe Elisabeth Velasquez Trade Union Award presented by FNV, a Dutch national labour centre, which is given to a trade union leader who has worked under difficult circumstances, taken enormous personal risks, but has defended trade union rights in countries where such rights are routinely violated. 
 
The conference marked the first time ICEM has held a meeting devoted purely to Electric Power, and all participants considered it a very worthwhile exercise in building and organising solidarity. Delegates resolved to build a sector-wide communication network to build solidarity to conflicts and to communicate good practice and union success stories quickly and easily.

ICEM Hold First Electric Power Conference

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Just prior to US President Barack Obama&rsquo;s state visit late last week to Ghana, the country&rsquo;s Federation of Labour (GFL) teamed with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) to hold a two-day conference on labour rights in America. 
 
The conclusion, as recited by the GFL&rsquo;s Executive Board, is that even though the US preaches democracy and human rights, and makes such principles conditional in the granting of aid to developing countries, workers in the US themselves lack fundamental human and labour rights to association, join a union, or to participate in collective bargaining. 

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A statement from the conference said, &ldquo;Violations of trade union rights occurring in Africa are influenced by the anti-union practices, especially in the USA, where workers are deprived their fundamental rights to organise and bargaining collectively. 
 
&ldquo;Strangely, the USA has not yet ratified ILO Conventions 87 and 98 concerning freedom of association and the right of workers to bargaining collectively. This is an indictment on the image of the USA as a founding member of the ILO.&rdquo; 
 
The 7-8 July conference specifically examined the hurdles US workers and trade unions are facing currently in trying to pass the Employee Free Choice Act. The EFCA is a proposed law that would give American workers the same opportunities to organise and bargain that workers in nearly all other developed countries have. Through decades of US labour law precedents, employers have coerced, intimidated, and threatened their staff from joining trade unions, and current US labour laws have allowed them to do so with impunity.

Ghana Labour Federation Lashes Out at Lack of US Work Rights

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The ICEM calls on its members to sign the petition against nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. Go to <a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/peace">www.ituc-csi.org/peace</a>, and pledge your support. The millions of signatures that will be collected will be presented to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the next Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference in May 2010. 
 
The ICEM believes that the enormous levels of funds spent on these weapons, must be redirected to the social sphere, especially during this period of global economic depression. 

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The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) provides a document for the collection of names of the petition on the link above. All paper signatures must be sent to the ITUC before February 2010. The campaign has a page on Facebook, which can be found by searching &ldquo;No to Nuclear Weapons.&rdquo; 
 
The ICEM's worldwide membership includes workers in the civilian nuclear industry, who consistently denounce nuclear weaponry.

ICEM Supports ITUC Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons

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Mexico City &ndash; Trade union and parliamentary leaders from 14 countries are visiting Mexico this week to support the National Union of Mine and Metal Workers, which has been under attack by the Mexican government and the Grupo Mexico mining company. 
 
Yesterday, 28 members of the U.S. Congress wrote to Calder&oacute;n asking him to meet with the delegation. &ldquo;Continued efforts by the Mexican government and Grupo Mexico to repress this democratic union in Mexico have raised serious questions about labor practices in your country,&rdquo; the letter stated.&nbsp; See the letter <a href="/wp-content/migration/icem/LTR.US.Congress.Mexico.pdf">here</a>. 
 
The delegation, organized by the International Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation (IMF), <a href="http://www.imfmetal.org">www.imfmetal.org</a>, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers&rsquo; Unions (ICEM), <a href="http://www.icem.org">www.icem.org</a>, and the United Steelworkers (USW), <a href="http://www.usw.org">www.usw.org</a>, is seeking a meeting with President Felipe Calder&oacute;n to discuss his government&rsquo;s handling of the Mineworkers conflict, which has been criticized by the international trade union movement. 
 
&ldquo;Workers around the world are outraged at Mexico&rsquo;s attacks on the Mineworkers union,&rdquo; said USW President Leo W. Gerard. 
 
The Mineworkers are one of the few unions in Mexico that continues to strike for higher wages. The union has won a series of strikes this year with wage increases above 8 percent, well above the 4.5 percent limit imposed by the government. The union has also criticized the government&rsquo;s labor law reform proposals and the lack of health and safety protections for workers. 
 
In response, the government has twice removed the leader of the union, Napole&oacute;n G&oacute;mez Urrutia, from office. The Committee on Freedom of Association of the International Labor Organization (ILO), ruling in a complaint brought by the IMF, found that &ldquo;the labour authorities engaged in conduct that is incompatible with Article 3 of Convention No. 87, which establishes the right of workers to elect their representatives in full freedom.&rdquo; 
 
The government has repeatedly filed criminal charges against the union leadership, although these have been thrown out by the courts. The government has also tried repeatedly to declare illegal a strike at three Grupo Mexico mines which has run for nearly two years, but the courts have rebuffed these efforts. The government has also supported Grupo Mexico in establishing company-dominated unions at eight other facilities. 
 
Four union members have been killed in the conflict. The government has not investigated or prosecuted these cases. 
 
&ldquo;We are concerned that the Calder&oacute;n government, which claims to be fighting for rule of law, practices impunity when it comes to the rights of the mineworkers&rdquo; said IMF General Secretary Jyrki Raina. 
 
In Mexico City, the delegation will meet with Congressional and union leaders and will visit Mineworkers&rsquo; official Juan Linares Montufar who has been jailed by the government. 
 
The delegation will attend the Mineworkers&rsquo; 75th anniversary in L&aacute;zaro C&aacute;rdenas, Michoac&aacute;n and will visit the Pasta de Conchos mine where 65 workers were killed in an explosion in 2006. An ILO report this year concluded that &ldquo; the Government of Mexico did not do all that was reasonably expected of it to avoid or minimize the effects of the accident which had such devastating effects with the loss of life of as many as 65 miners.&rdquo; 
 
The delegation is headed by Jack Layton, leader of Canada&rsquo;s New Democratic Party (NDP) and includes parliamentarians from Australia and Peru. The delegation includes trade union leaders from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. 
 
&ldquo;We intend to let our governments and employers know what is going on in Mexico, and to discourage them from further investments until it is clear that workers&rsquo; rights are being respected&rdquo; said Manfred Warda, General Secretary of the ICEM.

PARLIAMENTARY, UNION LEADERS VISIT MEXICO TO SUPPORT MINEWORKERS UNION

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A central labour court in Thailand on 31 October ruled that Goodyear Thailand&rsquo;s termination of contract worker Chalom Kongnok was illegal, and ordered the company to reinstate him and award him backpay and full collective bargaining benefits for the past ten years. 
 
This case is one of 16 cases that ICEM affiliate Petroleum and Chemical Workers&rsquo; Federation (PCFT) now is pursuing on behalf of long-term contract workers employed in the warehouse and rubber stock department of Goodyear&rsquo;s Bangkok tyre factory. They were fired in October 2005 for attempting to exert their legitimate right to collective bargaining. 
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Several, such as Kongnok, had been working for Goodyear for up to ten years under one-year contracts. The labour court&rsquo;s ruling on 15 other sacked contract workers is expected on 30 November. 
 
The 16 had won a previous Industrial Court Commission ruling last spring that called for reinstatement. But when they turned up at the factory for work on 3 May 2006, management refused entry. 
 
Seven months before, Goodyear&rsquo;s Thai management acted hastily in sacking the workers when they demanded collective bargaining benefits and protections. They had been deducting dues from the contract workers for, in some cases, up to four years. In an effort to avoid unionisation in this area of the plant, Goodyear later in 2005 halted direct employment of the contract workers and brought in a labour agency as employer. 
 
The ICEM will continue to stand with the PCFT and its plant-level affiliate, the Tyre Makers&rsquo; Union, in its rightful quest for full rights and permanent employment for all contract workers at Goodyear Thailand Ltd.

Goodyear Ordered to Take Back Thai Contract Worker with Ten Years’ Backpay

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North America&rsquo;s bitter industrial strike in the rubber sector between the United Steelworkers (USW) and Goodyear Tire and Rubber will see the antagonists come face to face tomorrow, 14 November, when the parties commence bargaining. It will be the first set of talks since the strike by 15,000 US and Canadian rubber workers began on 5 October. 
 
USW President Leo Gerard said: &ldquo;We look forward to productive discussions whereby our members can return to making quality products and sincerely hope that this is a good faith attempt by Goodyear to solve problems and not place further obstructions in the path to reaching a fair and equitable agreement.&rdquo; 
 
Good faith is something Goodyear is a stranger to in this 40-day strike. The US-based rubber-maker announced during the strike it was closing a plant in Tyler, Texas, potentially sacking 1,100 workers, even though the issue of job security and closures was still open on the bargaining table. 
 
Goodyear CEO Robert Keegan breached ethical social conduct by stating to investment analysts that the company would bypass the union in order to force Goodyear&rsquo;s agenda of jobs cuts, work reorganisation resulting in lower pay, and devastating attacks on pensioners&rsquo; benefits. 
 
The company has been relentless in its messages to strikers to abandon the walkout. The most recent example is a letter that company coverage of health care would only be guaranteed if staff returned to work by 3 January 2007.
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The ICEM-affiliated USW has made it clear that it is returning to the bargaining table tomorrow with expectations that management is ready for serious dialogue. The union maintains that Goodyear has not negotiated, but rather dictated the terms it seeks to impose on workers. &ldquo;We stand ready to bargain a fair labour agreement,&rdquo; said USW International Vice President Tom Conway, &ldquo;and assume (by Goodyear&rsquo;s return to bargaining) that the company has abandoned its destructive position on closing plants and slashing health care.&rdquo;
The USW will continue its campaign to protect jobs and livelihoods of North American rubber workers. On Saturday, 18 November, USW members will again distribute thousands of handbills to both customers and auto dealership managers over the possible safety risk Goodyear is creating by pushing for certain levels of production during the strike. The union has also taken that message to rubber sector and auto-parts trade shows that are attended by thousands of corporate representatives involved in sales and marketing. 
 
The Goodyear strike is one of the largest North American industrial strikes in this decade, affecting 12 plants in the US and four in Canada. Besides production from two non-union operations, Goodyear is attempting to maintain its customer base with limited production from plants that are on strike, using management personnel and temporary workers.

Steelworkers, Goodyear Return to Bargaining in Six-week Tyre Strike

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The Mineworkers&rsquo; Union of Namibia (MUN) ended a 13-day strike last Friday, 10 November, by 360 miners at the Kumba Resources&rsquo; Rosh Pinah zinc and lead mine in the south of the country. 
 
Miners won salary increases of 10% for workers in lower pay grades and 9% for those in higher grades. MUN General Secretary Joseph Hengari said miners also won a benefit of one month&rsquo;s salary when they resign or are retrenched. The collective agreement is for one year.
&ldquo;At first, the company refused to move from its salary position,&rdquo; said Hengari. &ldquo;So the final settlement is an improvement over what the company originally offered.&rdquo; South African-based Kumba had offered miners wage increases of 8% and 9%, while workers were seeking an across-the-board increase of 13%. 
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Besides a pay increase reflecting the high prices and demand for Rosh Pinah&rsquo;s major export, zinc concentrates, strikers were seeking better housing subsidies and relocation allowances. They were also seeking to bridge the parity gap that exists between Kumba&rsquo;s workers in South Africa and Namibia. 
 
Kumba is a Black Empowerment Enterprise of South Africa that was spun off from the global mining house, Anglo American. The company is currently undergoing a further split, separating some of its iron ore operations from base metal and coal operations. The latter, which will be called Exxaro Resources, will be the company that the Rosh Pinah operations will be part of. Anglo American will still control 19% of Exxaro. 
 
Rosh Pinah produces 70,000 tonnes of zinc concentrates annually, the majority of which is exported to South Africa for processing. It also produces 28,000 tonnes of lead. Kumba announced during the strike last week that a special &ldquo;unbundling dividend&rdquo; of the company will occur shortly, based on surplus cash after costs. 
 
The MUN also negotiated salary adjustments recently for some 100 uranium miners who had engaged in a two-day work stoppage at Roessing Uranium in late October. Roessing Uranium accounts for 7% of the world&rsquo;s uranium supply.

Kumba’s Namibian Mining Strike Ends in One-Year Agreement

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