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ICEM Women&rsquo;s World Conference Decides on 7-Point Programme 
 
The ICEM Women&rsquo;s World Conference was held on 17 and 18 November 2007 in Bangkok. Some 150 women from all continents listened to presentations and worked on their priorities in working groups. Women from Burma, Colombia, Iraq, Nepal, Palestine, Uzbekistan and Zimbabwe presented their work in crisis situations and the fight for peace. All presentations are available in the original languages from ICEM. 
 
One special highlight was the presence of Hashemiyya Muhsin Hussein, President of the Electricity Workers&rsquo; Union for the Basra region, Iraq. In an interview conducted by ITUC she said among other things that, &ldquo;There is a great deal of women working in this sector. During the war between Iran and Iraq, the men left for the front and so women replaced them on a wide scale, which is why there are so many of them now&hellip; 
 
People write slogans on the walls of the markets and other public places against women, against women who work and against women who do not wear the veil. The simple fact of working is dangerous for a woman. But many women have no alternative, because of their financial difficulties. Yes, the fact that I am a woman has made things very difficult as well, but I didn&rsquo;t want to give up and so I fought for this position, even though I received death threats against myself and even against my son.&rdquo; Hashemiyya was elected to the ICEM Executive and women&rsquo;s committee. 
 
One other focus for the conference was work-life balance. The topic was introduced by women representing ICEM affiliates in Japan. Maternity protection was one of the priorities decided on for continuing work. 
 
One example of work in connection with hazardous substances and the dangers they represent for maternity as well as babyproofing the workplace was presented by Margreet Pasman from the Netherlands. FNV Bondgenoten has made folders available on these themes, and they can be accessed from ICEM or Margreet. Gender perspectives on women&rsquo;s health were presented by Edeltraud Gl&auml;nzer from Germany, and work on bullying, violence, HIV/AIDS and abortion was explained by sisters from Brazil. 
 
A publication on maternity protection with different case studies from all continents is available in English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish from ICEM. 
 
A session was held and facilitated by Ramona Parra from FITEQA-CCOO, Spain, to have an exchange with women from Europe. The conclusion was that more work has to be done in cooperation between EMCEF and ICEM. 
 
The conclusions from the conference work fed into the 7 points that were decided for ICEM&rsquo;s future work. The points are as follows: 
 
1. Do research and exchange information on best practices of maternity protection. Information on paternity leave is particularly interesting. 
2. Provide information and guides on how to bargain for paternity leave and work-life balance. 
3. General work must continue on maternity protection and work-life balance. 
4. Strengthen ICEM&rsquo;s work on informal workers, migrant workers and contract and agency workers, especially since a majority of these tend to be women. 
5. Build alliances with NGO&rsquo;s and civil society in order to change mentalities and expand gender equality. 
6. Expand women&rsquo;s leadership training and broaden women&rsquo;s leadership. 
7. Work will continue on Burma, Colombia, Iraq, Nepal, Palestine, Zimbabwe and all others where fights are on-going for human and trade union rights. 
 
The women&rsquo;s conference confirmed Evgenia Esenina as chair of the women&rsquo;s committee and vice-president of ICEM and elected Angeline Chitambo from ZEEWU, Zimbabwe, as vice-chair and ICEM vice-president. 
 
ICEM Congress was held from 22 to 24 November. A record number of women attended the Congress, although some delegations from developed countries were notable in their absence of women delegates. Some examples were very encouraging, however, such as Spain, Sweden, South Africa and Brazil among others. Japan must be lauded for including more women in their Congress delegation each time. Congress passed a motion on women&rsquo;s participation. The ICEM women&rsquo;s committee will be monitoring its implementation. 
 
On the last day of Congress Elena Guti&eacute;rrez, Sitrapequia Costa Rica, called for a minute of silence in memory of the many thousands of women worldwide who have died as a result of violence. This commemoration took place on the eve of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, explained below.
PLEASE FORWARD TO ICEM ANY INDUSTRIAL CONFLICT WITH A HIGH LEVEL OF WOMEN&rsquo;S INVOLVEMENT THAT YOU FEEL SHOULD BE HIGHLIGHTED BY ICEM ON THE OCCASION OF 8 MACH 2008, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN&rsquo;S DAY. 
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ICEM Colombia Committee Organises Gender Workshop 
 
On 18 July the ICEM Colombia Committee organised a workshop on gender in Bogot&aacute; with 70 men and women participants. The group worked on the construction of patriarchy and the different attributions associated with women and men as well as maternity and paternity. The participants analysed the theory of gender and discussed socialization, abortion and quotas in government in groups. 
 
There were some prejudices such as the idea that gender only refers to women or that gender divides trade unions or that gender is a distraction from the class struggle. There are differences in concepts between gender, feminism and women&rsquo;s movements, and it is important to understand these differences. 
 
Some of the men participants felt threatened in their power position. Since the seminar was mixed, men and women together, the women participated less than the men. ICEM Colombia considers this work to be fundamental and women and men must be involved at all levels of debate. 
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ITUC Seminar on Diversity, Racism and Xenophobia 
 
The ITUC held a seminar on diversity, racism and xenophobia from 4 to 7 December in Geneva. This is a topic that has very strong gender perspectives. Migrant women are generally over-represented in low-skilled employment. 
 
The World Bank reports that women make up about 50% of the migrant population worldwide. The UN calculated in 2006 that about 190 million people live outside their country of origin. 
 
The meeting deplored the fact that racism seems to be on the rise worldwide and that racist policies can be used for electoral gain. ITUC will be developing activities to lead up to the conference in 2009 to follow up the 2001 Conference on racism held in Durban, South Africa.
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Resources 
 
<a href="http://www.ccoo.es/webCCOO/temp/recursos/1/44630.pdf">Good Practice Guide for Non-Sexist Language in Collective Bargaining</a> (in Spanish)&nbsp; 
 
<a href="http://www.uso.es">For an explanation of equality plans in Spain&nbsp; 
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<a href="http://www.un.org/womenwatch">United Nations Inter-Agency Network on Women and Gender Equality</a> 
 
<a href="http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/getPage.asp?page=latestPeriods">For a look at the urban informal economy in UN Habitat</a>
<a href="http://www.homeworkersww.org.uk ">HomeWorkers Worldwide</a>
<a href="http://www.lo.no/lobasen/Content/122971/14-06-LO-magasin-eneglsk-skjerm.pdf">For a publication on Women in the South</a> 
 
<a href="http://www.all-together.org">Men and equality and work-life balance</a>

ICEM WOMEN’S BULLETIN 27

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The ICEM North American affiliate, Communications, Energy, Paperworkers (CEP) Union of Canada, announced its intention to re-open sector-wide Eastern Canadian pulp and paper bargaining in efforts to stop the closure of mills and the loss of jobs. Meeting in Montreal on 5-6 December, local union leaders at Canada's largest paper company, AbitibiBowater, adopted the measure as part of an action plan to halt mill closures. 
The announcement by leaders of 35 local unions came in the wake of AbitibiBowater&rsquo;s plan to sack 1,000 paperworkers with the closure of four mills &ndash; in Dalhousie, New Brunswick, McKenzie, British Columbia, and Shawinigan and Donnacona, both in Quebec. The closures mean Canada has now lost 20,000 forest sector jobs in the past two to three years. 
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The proposal to enter talks early will be put to a conference of all pulp and paper local unions from Eastern Canada early in 2008. CEP then will be entering year four of a five-year contract covering 25,000 paperworkers in the eastern half of the country. 
 
&ldquo;We&rsquo;re taking the bull by the horns,&rdquo; stated CEP President Dave Coles. &ldquo;As a union, there are ways we can help cut costs that don&rsquo;t involve concessions, and we want to put them forward.&rdquo; The CEP president stressed that the union will not re-open contracts with the intent to cut wages or benefits. 
 
In 2004, Abitibi was the lead company for the CEP in pattern bargaining in Eastern Canada. The company's latest round of announced cuts occurs shortly after the Canadian company finalised its merger with US-based Bowater. 
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CEP President Dave Coles
&ldquo;We want to sit down face-to-face with AbitibiBowater to explore their closure announcements in detail,&quot; said Coles, adding that talks would centre on all possible alternative plans for the mills. He said early retirements and transition plans for the affected workers would be on the table. 
 
The CEP is also calling on AbitibiBowater and all major pulp and paper companies to join the union in convening a national forest industry summit to agree on urgent matters to support the industry. The union believes the federal government, led by Premier Stephen Harper, has turned a deaf ear to the crisis in the country's forest products industry, a crisis that has severely impacted tens of thousands of Canadians residing in rural areas.

CEP Proposes to Re-open Eastern Canada&#039;s Paper Talks to Halt Rampant Mill Shutdowns

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BHP Billiton, the world's largest combined energy and mining company, will file a legal appeal to avoid hiring contract workers to full-time, permanent jobs at its Escondida copper mining operations in Chile. That was the Australian company's response to a directive from the country's Ministry of Labour on 7 December that it is to directly employ 767 subcontractors at its large copper mining operation in northern Chile, in order to comply with a Law on Subcontracting. 
 
The directive, issued in a report, follows the notice that state-run mining company Codelco, the world's largest copper mining enterprise, must bring over 5,000 workers onto its permanent rolls for the same reason. Codelco utilises the services of some 30,000 subcontractors, compared to 15,000 permanent workers. 
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Furthers reports from the Ministry are expected on Xstrata and AngloAmerican. BHP Billiton wasted no time in saying it will challenge the directive, which, it says, will raise its full-time employment at Escondida by 25%. Escondida is 57.5% owned by BHP, while Rio Tinto holds a 30% stake, and a Japanese consortium holds 10%. 
 
Chile's Law on Subcontracting was passed in 2006 and took effect in January 2007. It sets limits on the number of staff that can be used on short-term jobs. The law changed the secondary responsibility of companies utilising contractors regarding labour responsibilities, giving them primary responsibility. It also created a process in which enterprises must register and establish a fund to meet wage costs and guarantee the supply of full-time workers in case of non-compliance. 
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The purpose of the law is to ensure compliance with existing Chilean labour law and to prevent unfair competition between companies on work conditions. In Chile, some 50% of enterprises were estimated to contract out part of their production, while 20.7% contracted out their main economic activity. Prior to the law taking effect, a full 35% of Chile's labour force was estimated not to have a direct contractual link with the primary enterprise. 
 
In Chile's copper industry, permanent staff earns three times more than contract workers, who oftentimes perform the same work. This issue caused a six-week strike in June and July 2007 by the 30,000 subcontractors of Codelco at its five Chilean divisions. 
 
The Labour Ministry's report on Xstrata and AngloAmerican, which each own 44% of Chile's third largest copper operation, Dona Ines de Collahuase, is expected to be released this week.

BHP Billiton Files Legal Challenge to Chile&#039;s Law on Subcontracting

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ICEM affiliate Chemical, Manufacturing and Connected Trades Employees&rsquo; Union (CMCTEU) has engaged in a global effort to block two pieces of government legislation coming soon to a vote in the National Assembly of the Indian Ocean island-nation. 
 
The two bills the Employments Relations Bill and the Employment Rights Bill. CMCTEU issued a statement saying the government is pressing the measures to a vote in this legislative session before extensive dialogue between the social partners can occur. They ask the ICEM to take this struggle to a global level by asking trade union affiliates to write letters to the Mauritius Minister of Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment opposing the measures. 
 
That minister is Dr. Vasant Bunwaree and letters can go to <a href="mailto:vkbunwaree@mail.gov.mu">vkbunwaree@mail.gov.mu</a>. 
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The Employment Relations Bill has many shortcomings, namely an erosion of workers&rsquo; rights, a cumbersome strike certification process, and restrictions on jobless workers over unemployment pay and ability to regain employment. The legislation also decreases sick leave time and gives no collective trade union protection to workers in small enterprises. 
 
The proposed laws also contain no penalties for employers who unjustly fire workers. 
 
The ILO&rsquo;s International Labour Office has assessed both pieces of legislation. It said that social and labour policies enacted into law must be the result of extensive consultation and social dialogue. It also concluded that the draft statutes set forth no criteria on how the two will function together, and says the legislation as written is short on administrative monitoring compliance. The ILO was also critical of language in the proposed statutes, which, in many places, is not gender-neutral.

Mauritius Affiliate Seeks Halt to hasty Labour Reform Legislation

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Not only did ICEM Thai affiliate Paper and Printing Federation (PPFT) win the reinstatement of Thanet Jhanluechai at SIG Combibloc 11 days ago, it also won assurances from the New Zealand&rsquo;s Rank Group that contract and agency labour language in the collective agreement will be honoured. 
 
That language reads exactly as the ICEM&rsquo;s policy on contract labour in collective agreements: the trade union must be consulted prior to any decision to sub-contract work, or hire temporary workers. The language is contained in a 2005 collective pact inside the 420-work Rayong province paper plant, and Rank Group now has agreed to adhere to it. 
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SIG branch leaders of PPTF
&nbsp;Rank Group purchased SIG Combibloc from its Swiss owners last spring. In readying the mill for sale, the packaging plant&rsquo;s managing director eliminated 8-hour work days in favour of 12-hour shifts. This cost workers a portion of their pay and of their shift differential pay. The agreement that was struck on 6 December also included the Rank Group&rsquo;s sacking of the plant&rsquo;s managing director, an individual blamed by workers for bringing deteriorating work and productivity conditions. 
 
A tightly-held private equity company led by New Zealand&rsquo;s richest man, Graeme Hart, Rank Group has moved rapidly into the forest products sector since buying, and taking private, Carter Holt Harvey in 2006. Since, it has increased its industry portfolio by buying papers mills and plants throughout the world. The ICEM commends the global trade union support that lead to justice being restored at SIG Combibloc, and particularly salutes New Zealand trade unions Engineering, Printing, and Manufacturing Union (EPMU) and the National Distribution Union for their lead. 
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Senior managers from Auckland-based Rank Group came to Rayong in late November and early December to resolve the dispute. This happened after global pressure. They also accepted &ndash; and agreed to correct &ndash; unfair work rules and other workplace issues that have led to extremely low morale. The ICEM congratulates PPFT and the workers at SIG Local Union for their great victory. Read more on the reinstatement of Thanet Jhanluechai <a href="/en/?id=19&amp;doc=2510&amp;la=EN">here</a>.

Thai Paperworkers Win More Than Just Reinstatement of Workplace Leader

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The European Union&rsquo;s Council of Ministers, on 5 December, backed away from passing an EU Directive on Agency Workers. The Directive, if passed, would have entitled agency workers to the same pay, benefits, and conditions of work as full-time staff after a six-week period. 
 
The proposed Directive, which was first drafted in 2002, has been blocked now for three years, primarily by UK&rsquo;s Labour Party government. In the 5 December meeting of the EU Employment Council, the Portuguese presidency was ready to ballot member countries under the EU&rsquo;s qualified-majority voting system, but the vote did not occur due to consideration of other UK positions. Besides the UK, Germany, Ireland, and Malta were member nations opposed. France and Poland had made compromises to accept the Directive. 
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The Agency Workers&rsquo; Directive is sure to be brought up again in early 2008, when Slovenia takes the presidency of the EU. The UK government&rsquo;s position has been bolstered by British business groups, who insist on flexible, disposable workforces in the name of competitiveness. 
 
Generally across Europe, temporary or agency workers are paid less, receive less training, and are prone to a higher rate of workplace accidents. 
 
Labour unions were incensed by the Brown government&rsquo;s continuation of Tony Blair policies. In leading up to the vote, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Secretary General John Monks, a British citizen, spoke before the UK&rsquo;s House of Commons on the issue. &ldquo;Agency workers are getting a second-class deal. And you &ndash; our government &ndash; are defending that, the indefensible.&rdquo; 
 
Following the 5 December non-action by the EU, UK Trades Union Congress General Secretary Brendan Barber stated, &ldquo;This is a bad day for rights at work across Europe, but especially in the UK. Contrary to business scare-mongering, this directive would not stop agencies providing temporary staff to employers. It would make it more difficult to undercut wages and conditions, and help slow the growth of a two-tier workforce.&rdquo;

EU Ignores Equal Treatment for Agency Workers in Failure to Pass Directive

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The Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union (CFMEU) of Australia has called on the new Kevin Rudd government in Australia to reverse John Howard&rsquo;s policies on the environment. In a report released on 6 December, CFMEU is calling on the government to devote more funding to new technologies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. 
 
Specifically, the CFMEU is urging the Rudd government to take the global lead in promoting carbon capture and storage technology. The CFMEU also called on mining houses operating in Australia &ndash; BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, and Xstrata &ndash; to also invest at least A$1-per-tonne of coal produced into new technologies for carbon capture. CFMEU National President Tony Maher said coal companies currently are only placing A$0.20-a-tonne into clean coal research. 
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CFMEU's Tony Maher
&ldquo;While some call for extreme responses like banning coal altogether,&rdquo; said Maher, &ldquo;the real challenge is to accept that developing nations, in particular India and China, will be reliant on coal for some time and we need to reduce the impact of this energy source on the environment.&rdquo; 
 
Maher was part of the official Australia government delegation to the UN&rsquo;s Climate Change Conference in Bali, Indonesia. That delegation, in stark reversal to Howard&rsquo;s policies, announced to a panel on 5 December in Bali that it supports a Kyoto protocol measure for Australia, calling for carbon emissions curtailment of 25-40% by the year 2020. 
 
&ldquo;Making carbon capture and storage a reality for our future is the brave step that Australia must take as it embarks as a global leader on climate change,&rdquo; said Maher on release of the CFMEU report. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s why Australian coal miners have embraced the Kyoto process,&rdquo; he added, stating that the world&rsquo;s major coal producers ought to be investing at least A$1-per-tonne on clean technologies.

Australia’s CFMEU Calls for Cleaner Measures to Reduce Carbon Emissions

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Among the scores of new affiliates to join the ICEM at the turn of the year, one from Cyprus is particularly grateful due to the fact that the ICEM website now includes Turkish-language features. It is the Union of Turkish Electricity Institution Employees (EL-SEN).
The union, founded in 1957, represents workers of the Turkish Electricity Institution, and it is headed by President Caglayan Cesurer and General Secretary Ercan K&ouml;seoglu. It has several hundred members and it also affiliated to the Cypress-Turkish Trade Union Federation (T&Uuml;RK-SEN). 
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The ICEM welcomes EL-SEN to its family of affiliates, and wishes the union and its members many years of Turkish-language reading, courtesy of the ICEM website.

Cypriot Electrical Union Takes to Turkish-language ICEM Website

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Earlier in February, workplace sit-ins by the Federation of Workers&rsquo; Councils and Union in Iraq (FWCUI) occurred in Basra, Hilla, Musayab, and Kut, following the failure of the Electricity Minister to accede to demands by workers. 
 
After a few hours of sit-ins by thousands of workers on 4 February, Minister Karim Wahid Hasan called FWCUI leaders with a readiness to hear those demands. FWCUI called the sit-ins successful for that result, saying in a statement that it was &ldquo;a courageous step for all workers of Iraq.&rdquo;
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The sit-ins had been called by the Union of Engineering Technicians of FWCUI, as well as other workers&rsquo; groups. 
 
Workers&rsquo; demands include a halt to the corruption inside the Ministry of Electricity, creation of new electric stations to serve Iraqi provinces, housing for workers in the sector, repayment of danger entitlements to workers, giving day labourers work contracts, and lifting the status of temporary workers to permanent staff. 
 
At a news conference last week, Electricity Minister Wahid called on the government to increase the ministry&rsquo;s 2008 budget nearly three-fold to US$4 billion in order to re-build the occupied country&rsquo;s power network. Current electric generation is less than half the 9,500 megawatts needed in Iraq, with power outages resulting mainly from sabotage, according to the UN&rsquo;s Humanitarian Office.
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United Press International reports that in a period from March to November 2007, 1,211 workers in the electric sector had been targeted for attacks. A study done for the news agency found that the sector in that period had undergone 651 attacks on distribution and transmission lines, 66 attacks on thermal power stations, and 18 attacks on other power operations. 
 
The ICEM supports FWCUI in their efforts to achieve security and just economic entitlements for workers in Iraq.

Iraqi Union Federation, FWCUI, Stages Electrical Sector Sit-In

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This Friday, 29 February, is a Day of Action for ICEM North American affiliate Communications, Energy, Paperworkers (CEP) against Petro-Canada. CEP members will protest and handbill at many of the company&rsquo;s petrol stations country-wide to draw attention to an unfair, 15-week lockout imposed by Petro-Canada on 267 workers at an oil refinery in Montreal, Quebec. 
 
Teams of locked-out workers are also travelling Canada, speaking at union meetings and other forums. They are also warning the public at home, in Montr&eacute;al, of the safety risks that the Calgary, Alberta-based company is taking by operating the refinery with managers and scabs. The union has called on Quebec&rsquo;s Environmental Office, as well as on city of Montr&eacute;al regulators, to inspect reports of leaks and malfunctions.
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&nbsp;CEP Local 175 members at a January rally
A provincial Ministry of Labour team, which visited the refinery late in January, found that at least 26 replacement workers are grouped with bosses in working long hours to maintain throughput. Employing replacements during a labour dispute in Quebec is a labour law violation. But worse, the company is jeopardizing the safety and welfare of the community, since bosses and scabs &ndash; some 120 in total, compared to 267 skilled and trained CEP members &ndash; have each been working in excess of 70 hours per week. 
 
The refinery, which saw a production increase from 105,000 barrels-per-day to 130,000 in 2006, is located in a residential area called Point-aux-Trembles, in the east end of Montreal. 
 
Among the contract concessions the company is seeking from CEP Local 175 is elimination of a health and safety prevention officer. Petro-Canada is seeking to break the CEP&rsquo;s National Energy and Chemical Bargaining Programme for 2007-2008, a pattern that was set in May 2007 in a three-year agreement between the CEP and Petro-Canada at a refinery in Edmonton, Alberta. 
 
Management in Montr&eacute;al is seeking a six-year term, and also is demanding unwanted changes to scheduling, job assignments, and an accelerated training programme that will further jeopardize health and safety. 
 
Petro-Canada bought the refinery from Fina in 1981. The lockout began on 17 November 2007. 

Petro-Canada is seeking to break the CEP&rsquo;s National Energy and Chemical Bargaining Programme for 2007-2008, a pattern that was set in May 2007 in a three-year agreement between the CEP and Petro-Canada at a refinery in Edmonton, Alberta. Management in Montr&eacute;al is seeking a six-year term, and also is demanding unwanted changes to scheduling, job assignments, and an accelerated training programme that will further jeopardize health and safety.

CEP Brings Ills of Petro-Canada’s Montréal Lockout Across the Country

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ICEM WOMEN’S BULLETIN 27

CEP Proposes to Re-open Eastern Canada's Paper Talks to Halt Rampant Mill Shutdowns

BHP Billiton Files Legal Challenge to Chile's Law on Subcontracting

Mauritius Affiliate Seeks Halt to hasty Labour Reform Legislation

Thai Paperworkers Win More Than Just Reinstatement of Workplace Leader

EU Ignores Equal Treatment for Agency Workers in Failure to Pass Directive

Australia’s CFMEU Calls for Cleaner Measures to Reduce Carbon Emissions

Cypriot Electrical Union Takes to Turkish-language ICEM Website

Iraqi Union Federation, FWCUI, Stages Electrical Sector Sit-In

CEP Brings Ills of Petro-Canada’s Montréal Lockout Across the Country

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