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7 June 2010 
 
 
Felipe de Jes&uacute;s Calder&oacute;n Hinojosa 
President 
United States of Mexico 
Residencias Oficial de los Pinos 
Case Miguel Alem&aacute;n 
Col San Miguel Chapultepec 
11850 M&egrave;xico, D.F. 
 
Sent to fax numbers +52 55 5093 4901, +52 55 52772376, 
e-mail <a href="mailto:felipe.calderon@presidencia.gob.mx">felipe.calderon@presidencia.gob.mx</a> &nbsp;
 
Dear President Calderon: 
 
On behalf of our --- members, I urge you to stop the violent actions taken yesterday and today by your government against trade union members and their families of Section 65 of Mexican National Miners' and Metalworkers' Union (SNTMMSRM) in Cananea, Mexico. 
 
The ICEM has continually urged a negotiated end to the conflict in Cananea, and we condemn your decision to send in federal police and attack trade union members. 
 
We call upon you to immediately withdraw your forces, and seek a peaceful and negotiated end to the conflict. 
 
Sincerely,

Calderón Model Letter

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Scores of letters were sent to Mexico President Felipe Calder&oacute;n from ICEM affiliates last week, responding to an ICEM call for dialogue not brute force to resolve the three-year long strike by 1,200 workers of Section 65 of the Mexican National Miners&rsquo; and Metalworkers&rsquo; Union (SNTMMSRM) at the Cananea copper mine in northern Sonora State. On 6 June, Mexican federal police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse strikers at the mine and inside Section 65&rsquo;s union hall. (See ICEM report <a href="/en/5-Mining-DGOJP/3838-ICEM-Calls-on-Mexico-to-Halt-its-Violence-at-Cananea">here</a>.) 
 
By the end of last week, following a 10 June skirmish between miners and police that injured eight, a truce was declared by leaders of Section 65, as they held meetings on 10 and 11 June with Sonora Governor Guillermo Padr&eacute;s El&iacute;as in Hermosillo and the Mexican Interior Secretary, Fernando G&oacute;mez-Mont. 
 
In the latter meeting on 11 June, G&oacute;mez-Mont said he would work to arrange a meeting between the union and the Southern Copper Corp. of Grupo M&eacute;xico, owners of the mine, this week. Following the meetings, Section 65 Secretary-General Sergio Tolano Lizarr&aacute;go said the government now appears committed to bringing the two sides together for dialogue. 
 
For the union&rsquo;s part, the Strike Committee is adamant that Southern Copper halt all &ldquo;illegal hirings&rdquo; of contractors in order to re-start the 230,000-ton copper mine. The 10 June confrontation started in the early morning hours when strikers rolled huge rocks on to an access road of the Cananea mine to block contractors from entering. Federal police responded by taking control of the entrance, and then fired tear gas and pepper spray at some 150 miners, who had retreated into nearby hills.
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According to reports, in four days of altercations, 16 people have been injured, including four miners, 2 police, and the remainder civilians, mostly family members of strikers and others overcome with gas poisoning. 
 
Responding to the ICEM for intervention, South African affiliate National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said it would organise protests at the opening World Cup match on 11 June between South Africa and Mexico. The action involved members of NUM, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), the Chemical, Energy, Pulp, Paper, Wood, and Allied Workers&rsquo; Union (CEPPAWU), and the South African Transport and Allied Workers&rsquo; Union (SATAWU). 
 
In coordination with the taking of Cananea, federal forces also forcibly took control of Grupo M&eacute;xico&rsquo;s coal mine at Pasta de Conchos in Coahuila state. There, they overcame the widows and family members of 65 dead miners still entombed in shafts following a methane gas explosion in February 2006. The women and family members had been on a long vigil, with demands that the state and company recover the bodies of their cherished ones. 
 
The Mexican government and Grupo M&eacute;xico refused that plea, and stopped others in search by cutting off electricity. Halting the search, many felt, served to hide evidence of management responsibility for the accident. The mine was sealed permanently following police actions on 6 June. Widespread criticism has been made of the company's continued failure to properly compensate families of the dead. 
 
The legal strike at Cananea began on 30 July 2007 when Section 65 of SNTMMSRM, or Los Mineros, refused to work in dangerous conditions, similar to those causing the Pasta de Conchos explosion. During the attack of 6 June, police arrested five Los Mineros members, Rodolfo Valdez Serrano, Everardo Ochoa Ballesteros, Luis Alonso Borb&oacute;n P&eacute;rez, Luis Alonso Torres, and Marcelo Lara L&oacute;pez.
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Sergio Tolano and Juan Guti&eacute;rrez Ballesteros, a Los Mineros National Executive Member from Section 65, also faced arrest warrants on 6 June, but both won court injunctions preventing their incarcerations. 
 
At an economic forum Friday, 11 June, in Peru, where Southern Copper also holds mining assets, President and CEO Oscar Gonzalez Rocha said the police takeover of Cananea enables the US-based subsidiary to begin an investment plan and re-start copper production early next year. He said Southern Copper will invest US$50 million in Cananea. 
 
On another level, at the ILO&rsquo;s International Labour Conference in Geneva on 10 June, the Mexican situation was brought up before the Committee on the Application of Standards. Specifically, debate arose with regard to ILO Convention 155, the Health and Safety at Work Convention. Although Mexico&rsquo;s government and employers&rsquo; representatives, together with a Grupo M&eacute;xico representative, pointed to increased numbers of inspectors at worksites, workers&rsquo; representatives from around the world criticised the disregard for working people shown by the government of President Felipe Calder&oacute;n. 
 
It was argued that work performed by employees on short-term contracts or through labour agencies accounts for 60% of the entire Mexican workforce. Those workers are given few social protections, thus leading to statistics that are askew, including occupational safety accidents. On the issue of health and safety in Mexico, it is the worker who must provide burden of proof for accidents or injuries, and since labour tribunals often take years to issue rulings, companies tend to act with impunity.

Tense Truce Takes Hold at Mexico’s Cananea Copper Mine

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The ICEM was shocked and angered by the arrests of labour and political rights advocate, Somyot Pruksakasemsuk, and Associate Professor Suthachai Yimprasert, in Thailand, and will be detained until earliest 6 June.
The pair presented themselves to police on hearing of their arrest warrants.&nbsp;Neither of them were members of the core Red Shirt group, they were following events closely in their capacity as journalist and academic.
Both friends of the international labour movement, Somyot and Suthachi are detained at the Adisorn Army Base in Saraburi, 115km north of capital Bangkok. Suthachai is on hungar strike in protest of his arrest.
ICEM affiliates and supporters around the world are requested to write to your local Thai embassies and call on the release of both men.
Somyot is a former ICEM project coordinator in Thailand. 
The arrest warrants were issued in connection&nbsp;to the incident on 21 May 2010 at 13.00, when Somyot and Suthachai, in the name of the 24th of June Democracy Group, held a press conference in front of the House No. 111 Foundation. This was a completely peaceful event.
The ICEM joins calls for the immediate release&nbsp;of both men.

ICEM Angered by Thai Arrests

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The Workers&rsquo; Network of Bayer meeting, held 6-7 May at the Hotel Terras Altas in Itapecerica da Serra, S&atilde;o Paulo, was supported by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES) of Germany and was attended by workers, members of factory committees, and managers from Bayer plants in Brazil and Argentina. This eighth meeting was also attended by representatives by CNQ/CUT, the National Confederation of Chemical Industry, the Social Observatory Institute, CUT&rsquo;s Multi Action on Multinationals Project from the Brazilian national labour centre&rsquo;s International Relations Secretariat. 
 
The participation of comrades from the pharmacists' union in Argentina stimulated the discussion on the regional expansion of the network and also allowed a better understanding of the reality of Bayer employees in that country. The Argentine trade unionists spoke on collective agreements, benefits, restructuring and acquisitions in the region, and on relations between business, workers, and unions. 
 
According to CNQ International Relations Secretary Antenor Nakamura, the network must engage in regional expansion, but in order to do that it has to consider the differences in trade union structures in the region. According to Eder Correa, manager of labor relations at Bayer in Brazil, the company acknowledges the Brazilian network, but emphasized that the Brazilian structure cannot interfere in Bayer&rsquo;s positions in other countries. &quot;We can&rsquo;t guarantee recognition of the network in other regions, but we can make a strategic disclosure of the dialogue practices,&quot; he said. 
The impact of nanotechnology for workers was another topic discussed during this eighth meeting. The coordinator of the research institute Renanossoma, Dr. Paulo Martins, introduced the theme and spoke about the lack of regulation for products made with nano particles and the lack of research investment and that impact on processes. 

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&quot;Nanotechnology allows the creation of new products, but we still do not know if they are safe. The social, environmental, and ethical concerns should be taken into consideration,&quot; he stated. 
 
During the two-day meeting, workers and Bayer managers covered topics such as fundamental rights at work, moral harassment in the corporate world, control system of working hours, incorporation of benefits, dissemination of social dialogue in all areas of the company, newsletters, and the functioning and structure of the network. The next meeting of workers network at Bayer will be held in April 2011. 
 
At the social dialogue forum, Bayer representatives were present during the whole meeting and discussed all themes proposed by workers. They presented an overview of the business in the country and its prospects for the future. The President of Bayer Brazil, Dr. Horstfried Laepple, stressed the importance of transparency in dialogue with workers, unions, and factory committees. In his institutional presentation, Laepple spoke about the positive results of the company in 2009 in Brazil, with R$3.8 billion in sales, about the possibility of business expansion, and also the positive projections for 2010. That includes investment of R$180 million in technology upgrades and amplification of plants. 
 
The company also presented the project Hamonia, a people management tool that uses the methodology of skills. The tool has recently been installed in its plant in Belford Roxo, in order to align human resource practices between the two businesses in that plant and set career tracks, as well as giving more transparency to the criteria for evaluation, promotion, and remuneration. The theme of &quot;Jobs and Wages,&quot; discussed by the Bayer Workers&rsquo; Network until 2008, was one of the instigators to this project. 
 
The signing of a term that will deal with Bayer's commitment to adopt and respect the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises in the restructuring theme should be discussed by company and workers network in the future.

Bayer Workers’ Network Seeks Regional Expansion Across Latin America

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The ICEM today expressed sadness and anger at the deaths of two members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 6500 in Sudbury, Ontario, on Wednesday night, 8 June. The two miners died 900 metres underground at Vale&rsquo;s Stobie nickel and copper mine when an overflow of broken rock, sediment, and water &ndash; known as muck &ndash; buried them. 
 
The miners were identified yesterday as Jason Chenier, 35, and Jordan Fram, 26. The two men were operating a scooptram at the No. 7 ore pass inside Stobie. An ore pass is a junction where ore is dropped from one level to the next. Sixty miners were working in the mine on the night shift when the fatalities occurred. 
 
In a letter today to USW President Leo Gerard, himself a former mineworker in Sudbury, USW Canadian National Director Ken Neumann, and USW Local 6500 President Rick Bertrand, ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda stated: &ldquo;It is a terrible tragedy and makes clear the inherent dangers for workers whose livelihoods are dependent on the mining industry. Please convey the sympathies of the entire ICEM global family of unions to the families of the two miners, as well as to all union members of Local 6500.&rdquo; (See the full <a href="/wp-content/migration/icem/54.ICEM.USW.Sudbury%20Deaths.Canada.10June.pdf">ICEM letter</a> here.) 

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Vale&rsquo;s Stobie nickel and copper mine
The ICEM also noted that USW&rsquo;s expert team of safety and health investigators will probe the tragic circumstances to uncover what went wrong and to ensure a similar tragedy does not happen again. The ICEM stated the sad irony of the 8 June is that only eight days before the miners&rsquo; deaths, Vale was honoured with an award by the Canadian Institute of Mining as having the safest two metal mines in Canada. 
 
Although the mines receiving the award were at Vale&rsquo;s nickel operations in Thompson, Manitoba, mines from Sudbury won the same award consecutively from 2006 to 2009. 
 
In a statement, Local 6500 President Bertrand said, &ldquo;The Steelworkers will be involved in this investigation every step of the way. Once the investigation is complete we will work hard for the workplace to be restored to safe condition before it starts up again.&rdquo; 
 
The Stobie mine in Sudbury consists of two adjoining mines, an open cast one and an underground one where the tragedy occurred. Canada has not ratified ILO Convention 176, the Safety and Health in Mines Convention.

ICEM Saddened by Mine Deaths of Two Steelworkers at Vale in Sudbury, Canada

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Suez Environnement, a subsidiary of French-based GDF SUEZ, was hit with an OECD petition pursuant to the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises yesterday by ICEM affiliate Utility Workers Union of America (UWUA). The petition was for alleged environmental failures and unfair labour practice complaints issued by the US government against United Water, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Suez Environnement. 
 
GDF SUEZ is signatory to a Global Framework Agreement (GFA) with three Global Union Federations (GUFs), including ICEM and Public Services International (PSI). Both ICEM and PSI have jointly criticised the parent company for the insolent social conduct of it&rsquo;s subsidiary in the US Suez Environnement is 35% held by GDF SUEZ. 
 
The US National Labour Relations Board authorised unfair labour practice complaints against United Water at two separate locations where the UWUA represents workers and is now negotiating with United Water over renewal agreements. The US agency&rsquo;s charge against management involves failure to provide relevant information to the union related to bargaining. 
 
United Water is demanding steep cuts in employee retirement benefits. Failure to adequately exchange information related to bargaining clearly violates Article 7 of the GDF SUEZ GFA, &ldquo;Respect for Trade Union Rights,&rdquo; which references transparency in labour-management forums. The agreement also refers to the OECD Guidelines and the ILO Tripartite Principles, both of which have clear language regarding exchange of information for &ldquo;meaningful negotiations&rdquo; in social partnerships. 
 
The GFA, signed in November 2010, covers all of the group&rsquo;s businesses, even ones in which the company holds a minority stake. In a letter last month to GDF SUEZ CEO G&eacute;rard Mestralett, ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda and PSI General Secretary Peter Waldorff said, &ldquo;The ICEM and PSI are angry and disappointed with the callousness, indifference, and negative conduct of United Water management in relation to the Global Framework Agreement and abidance to GDF SUEZ&rsquo;s core social principles.&rdquo;
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UWUA President Michael Langford&nbsp; 

The alleged environmental infractions also saw the GUFs take issue with United Water. In December 2010, the US government issued a criminal indictment charging that United Water intentionally manipulated E.coli bacteria monitoring tests at a wastewater treatment plant outside of Chicago. The indictment alleges that United Water engaged in a scheme in which it increased chlorine levels when government-mandated E.coli inspections took place, and then lowered input levels after as a costs-savings measure. The allegations, if proven true, stand as an obvious menace to public health. United Water has pleaded not guilty to the charges. (See <a href="/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/4208-US-Affiliate-UWUA-Challenges-GDF-SUEZ-Inside-Global-Agreement">ICEM report</a> on that here.) 
 
The UWUA symbolically filed the OECD petition yesterday, along with the American NGO Food and Water Watch, at the French embassy in Washington, DC, as well as to the US government&rsquo;s National Contact Point. UWUA Local 1-2 in New York City also distributed informational leaflets on United Water&rsquo;s detrimental conduct outside the French mission to the UN. Under the OECD complaint process, both the US and French governments are obligated to forward the submission to the French parent company and to the US subsidiary for a formal reply. 
 
UWUA President Michael Langford said, &ldquo;Utility workers have been astonished at the bad faith conduct of United Water in labour negotiations in the US.&rdquo;

US Utility Workers File OECD Complaint Against Suez Environnement

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Addressing the Plenary sitting of the 100th session of the International Labour Conference today, ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda called for action on precarious work, workers' health and safety in the mining industry, and attention to the violation of rights of Holcim employees in India, as well as on abuses to glass workers in Mexico. 
 
Warda condemned the shocking attempt by Swiss-based cement multinational Holcim to crush the union representing its employees in India, with unsubstantiated claims leading to the 19 May arrest of union leaders engaged during a legal battle for the reinstatement of 80 members illegally sacked at the Holcim-ACC unit at Jamul.
Referring to the recent attempt of those outsourced workers to voice their concerns to the authorities, Warda continued, &ldquo;It is deplorable that Mr. Chandrashekhar Sahu, the Labor Minister of the State of Chhattisgarth of India, attending this Conference, refused to meet 250 Holcim workers who had walked long distances to appeal to him for observation of basic trade union rights.&rdquo; 
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Warda called on governments and employers to move towards ratification and implementation of ILO Convention 176 and its associated Recommendation 183, on safety and health in mines. With Ukraine soon to become the 25th country to ratify the Convention, this represents far too few adoptions, while miners are continuing to be killed and injured every day around the world. 
 
Finally, Warda focussed on the ILO complaint&nbsp;No. 2774 by Mexican affiliated union SUTEIVP. The complaint is being fully supported by the ICEM, following a 2008 mass dismissal of hundreds of workers at Industria Vidriera del Potosi S.A., a manufacturer of glass bottles used by Corona beer. The sacked workers were covered by a collective bargaining agreement and included the executive committee of the SUTEIVP at the plant. A protection contract was then established by the employer. 
 
See the <a href="/wp-content/migration/icem/ICEM_Manfred_Warda_ILC_Plenary_Speech%20_8_June%20FINAL.pdf">full text of the speech</a> here.

ICEM General Secretary Addresses International Labour Conference

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ICEM &uuml;yesi T&uuml;rkiye &Ccedil;imento, Seramik, Toprak ve Cam Sanayi İş&ccedil;ileri Sendikası &Ccedil;imse-İş, 2 Haziran tarihinde yapılan Başkanlar Kurulu toplantısında, 45 &ccedil;imento fabrikası i&ccedil;in grev kararı aldı. Grev kararı, &ccedil;imento sekt&ouml;r&uuml;nde devam etmekte olan toplu iş s&ouml;zleşmesi g&ouml;r&uuml;şmelerinde ortaya &ccedil;ıkan uyuşmazlığın ardından geldi. 
 
&Uuml;ye sendikamız &Ccedil;imse-İş ile T&uuml;rkiye &Ccedil;imento İşverenleri Sendikası (&Ccedil;EİŞ) arasında 7 Ocak tarihinden bu yana s&uuml;rmekte olan m&uuml;zakereler, yeni bir toplu iş s&ouml;zleşmesi imzalanmasına olanak vermeyecek şekilde tıkanıklık i&ccedil;erisinde girmiş durumda. Ocak ve Şubat ayında yapılan g&ouml;r&uuml;şmelerde 40 civarında idari h&uuml;k&uuml;m &uuml;zerinde mutabakat sağlanmıştı. 
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&Ccedil;imse-İş Genel Başkanı Zekeriye Nazlım
Fakat ge&ccedil;en aylar s&uuml;resince başkaca bir ilerleme sağlanamadı ve bunun &uuml;zerine &Ccedil;imse-İş Sendikası, genel merkez y&ouml;netim kurulu &uuml;yeleri ve şube başkanlarından oluşan Başkanlar Kurulu&rsquo;nu toplayarak t&uuml;m sekt&ouml;r&uuml; kapsayan bir grev kararı aldığını ilan etti. Başkanlar Kurulu ayrıca, grev uygulaması i&ccedil;in gerekli hazırlıkların vakit ge&ccedil;irilmeden yapılması hususunu da karara bağladı. 
 
Toplu iş s&ouml;zleşmesi g&ouml;r&uuml;şmeleri 45 fabrikada &ccedil;alışan 5800 civarında sendika &uuml;yesini kapsamaktadır. 
 
Toplu İş S&ouml;zleşmesi, Grev ve Lokavt Yasası&rsquo;na g&ouml;re, &Ccedil;imse-İş Sendikası grev kararı alınmasının ardından 60 g&uuml;nl&uuml;k s&uuml;re i&ccedil;erisinde grev uygulamasına başlayacak. Sendika grev uygulamasının ne zaman yapılacağını daha sonra a&ccedil;ıklayacak.

Çimse-İş Türkiye’deki 45 Çimento Fabrikası için Grev Kararı Aldı

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23 Mayıs tarihinde toplanan ICEM Başkanlık Kurulu, Kemal &Ouml;zkan&rsquo;ın &ouml;rg&uuml;t&uuml;n yeni Sekt&ouml;rel Faaliyetler ve&nbsp;End&uuml;stri&nbsp;İlişkileri Direkt&ouml;rl&uuml;ğ&uuml;&rsquo;ne 1 Haziran tarihi itibarı ile atanmasına ilişkin kararı onayladı. &Ouml;zkan yeni g&ouml;revini, 2007 yılı başından bu yana s&uuml;rd&uuml;rmekte olduğu Kimya ve Lastik İşkolları Sorumluluğu g&ouml;revi ile birlikte y&uuml;r&uuml;tecek. 
 
Ekonomi ve işletme y&ouml;netimi alanındaki master derecesi ile beraber m&uuml;hendislik eğitimi almış olan &Ouml;zkan, ICEM&rsquo;de &ccedil;alışmaya başlamadan &ouml;nce, 15 yıldan uzun bir s&uuml;re T&uuml;rk &uuml;yemiz Petrol, Kimya ve Lastik Sanayii İş&ccedil;ileri Sendikası&rsquo;nda g&ouml;rev yapmıştı. Sendikacı bir aileden gelmekte olan &Ouml;zkan&rsquo;ın babası, 1980 yılında T&uuml;rkiye&rsquo;de yapılan askeri darbe sırasında d&ouml;rt yıl tutuklu olarak cezaevine konulmuştu. 
 
Konuyla ilgili konuşan &Ouml;zkan, &ldquo;ICEM&rsquo;in yeni Sekt&ouml;rel Faaliyetler ve&nbsp;End&uuml;stri İlişkileri Direkt&ouml;rl&uuml;ğ&uuml;&rsquo;ne getirilmekten onur duymaktayım&rdquo; diyerek, &ldquo;Bu durum, &ouml;rg&uuml;t&uuml;m&uuml;z&uuml;n başarısı i&ccedil;in bana daha fazla sorumluluk y&uuml;klemektedir. ICEM&rsquo;in sekt&ouml;rel faaliyetleri ve end&uuml;stri ilişkileri alanındaki &ccedil;alışmalarını g&uuml;&ccedil;lendirmek i&ccedil;in elimden geleni yapacağım&rdquo; şeklinde a&ccedil;ıklamasını bitirdi. 
ICEM Genel Sekreteri Manfred Warda da yaptığı a&ccedil;ıklamasında, &ldquo;Kemal &Ouml;zkan, bilgisi, başarısı ve canlılığı ile bu g&ouml;revi haketmektedir. Kendisi ICEM i&ccedil;erisinde daha fazla sorumluluk almaya hazır olduğunu her vesile ile g&ouml;stermiştir. Yeni g&ouml;revi ile birlikte Kemal &Ouml;zkan&rsquo;ın bayrağımızı geleceğe taşımak i&ccedil;in hazır olduğunu g&ouml;stereceğinden eminim&rdquo; dedi. 
 
42 yaşında olan &Ouml;zkan, Selma Başak Hanım ile evlidir.

Özkan, ICEM Sektörel Faaliyetler ve Endüstri İlişkileri Direktörlüğü’ne Getirildi

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The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) called on the Gulf state of Qatar to do more to uphold workers&rsquo; rights as it begins a building boom for the 2022 World Cup. In a report issued on the last day of May entitled &ldquo;Hidden Faces of the Gulf Miracle,&rdquo; the ITUC, along with the Building and Wood Workers&rsquo; International (BWI), say hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, mostly from Asia, work in construction across the Gulf states. 
 
But, the report states, they are burdened by huge debts to employment agencies in their home countries and prohibitions on trade unions in Gulf states such as Qatar. The report questions the safety practices in constructing the stadiums and infrastructure for the games, as well as inhumane living conditions. 

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BWI General Secretary Ambet Yuson
&ldquo;Just 6% of the working population of Qatar is Qatari,&rdquo; said BWI General Secretary Ambet Yuson. &ldquo;Their economy and their ability to deliver the World Cup are totally dependent on severe exploitation of migrant labour, which we believe to be barely above forced labour conditions.&rdquo; 
 
Officials connected to the ruling family in Qatar have taken note of the report and have promised to investigate the labour concerns. The <a href="http://www.ituc-csi.org/hidden-faces-of-the-gulf-miracle,9144.html ">full report</a> can be found here.

ITUC, BWI Question Qatar on Workers’ Rights

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