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ICEM Turkish affiliate CIMSE-Iş, the Cement, Ceramic, Soil, and Glass Workers’ Union, signed a successful collective agreement on 29 March for 6,000 ceramics workers at 11 factories. The agreement was signed with the employers’ association for ceramics. 
 
Retroactive to 1 January, workers will receive monthly salary increases of 5%, plus a bonus of new TRL55, effective also on 1 January 2007. 
 
Regarding social benefits, a press release issued by CIMSE-Iş on 3 April reports that, on average, a 25% increase was won for all union members.

CIMSE-Iş in Turkey Wins 5% Pay Gains, Benefit Increases for 6,000 Ceramics Workers

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FETIESC Women march at Itapema on 25 March for equality and dignity
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1. Australia – Professional Women Are Remaining Childless 
2. Brazil – Sao Paulo Electricity Workers Commemorate Women’s Day 
3. Peru – Adoption of Equal Opportunities Law 
4. Russia – ILO/FNPR Seminar Held on Gender Audits in Russian Unions 
5. Senegal – Parliament Passes Bill on Gender Balance in the Legislature 
6. Spain – Guidelines are Proposed for Company Equality Plans 
7. Venezuela – New Law Defends Women’s Rights 
8. Resources
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1. Australia – Professional Women Are Remaining Childless
A recent study by the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists, and Managers of Australia found that many working women are not having children because it would be detrimental to their careers. 
 
A full 34% of women with children had not taken any maternity leave, and 26% more would not be paid for time they might take off. And more than half claimed that by taking time off, it would be detrimental to their careers. 
 
In addition, women are leaving their careers faster than men. Women cite the difficulty of balancing work and life, workplace culture and lack of senior job roles for them as being the most common obstacles they face in their career paths. 
 
In spite of the fact that there is a skills shortage in many areas, women are not able to fill the gap because of work-life difficulties. Moreover, women are still earning about 40% less than men for the same work. The OECD ranks Australia 45th out of 115 countries in terms of wage equality. 
 
This research shows that many women are still being forced to choose between children and a career. 
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2. Brazil – Sao Paulo Electricity Workers Commemorate Women’s Day 
On 7 March, the Sao Paulo Electricity Workers celebrated International Women’s Day with the slogan, “Women and Agenda 21, a Commitment to a Better World.” Agenda 21 was the commitment signed by 170 countries in the UN framework to promote sustainable development. 
 
The event stressed the importance of guaranteeing youth representation, both women and men, in labour and environmental fora, and youth representatives from the union in international bodies were present. 
 
Questions that concerned the conservation of the Amazon were also discussed at the meeting. It was said that women have a historic role to play in conservation and preservation of forests, biological diversity, and maintaining ecosystems. 
 
At the meeting, the Sao Paulo Electricity Workers endorsed the Manifest for the Protection of the Amazon, an initiative also promoted by many Brazilian artists. 
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3. Peru – Adoption of Equal Opportunities Law 
On 8 March, the Congress of Peru adopted the law on equal opportunities between women and men, after a number of debates in various areas. The law establishes public policies to guarantee the right to gender equality. 
 
It also guarantees the respect of the pluricultural and multilingual character of the Peruvian nation. The Executive is also called upon to carry out programmes to eliminate poverty and extreme marginalization. 
 
On 8 March, women in the three trade union national labour centres participated in a rally in Lima to demand effective policies to guarantee the real implementation of their rights. Article 7 of the law contains work-related guarantees such as the following: 
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 <li>
 <div>Guarantee of the right to productive work exercised in freedom, equity, security and human dignity; measures to avoid all kinds of work-related discrimination between women and men in access to employment, training, promotion, working conditions and the same pay for work of equal value. These guarantees also include protection against sexual harassment and the promotion of compatibility between family and work-related responsibilities. </div>
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 <div>Guarantee of the protection of men and women workers in the informal economy, in urban and rural areas, in order to promote the formalization of the economy, as well as the protection of those who are in an unprotected and excluded situation. </div>
 </li>
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 <div>Guarantee of non-discriminatory treatment for men and women domestic workers. </div>
 </li>
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 <div>Recognition of reproductive work done at home and in the community to generate the conditions to improve the situation of those doing the work and to promote shared family responsibilities. </div>
 </li>
</ul>
Now the trade union centres are starting their work to ensure that the law is applied. 
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4. Russia – ILO/FNPR Seminar Held on Gender Audits in Russian Unions 
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ICEM women’s chair Genia Esenina, front row, at left 
From 26-28 March FNPR, the Russian trade union central organisation, held a workshop together with the ILO on gender audits in Russian trade unions. A total of 23 participants and members of the gender equality commission were trained in the theory and methodology of gender audits in this first seminar, which served as the pilot project covering gender audits. 
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5. Senegal – Parliament Passes Bill on Gender Balance in the Legislature
On 27 March, the Senegalese Parliament adopted a bill that introduced gender parity on election lists that political parties present for elections on the basis of proportional representation. 
 
The passing of the bill will mean that more women will be elected to parliament in Senegal in the future. 
 
Religious leaders, however, were concerned that this bill was out of step with a Muslim country. 
 
The Minister of the Interior defended the legislation with the argument that women, as the majority in the country, should be adequately represented in Parliament. At present, 23 women old seats in Parliament out of a total of 120, and new women members are certain to be added at the next election because of this legislation. 
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6. Spain – Guidelines are Proposed for Company Equality Plans 
Ramon Parra from FITEQA CCOO has drafted the following guidelines for company equality plans in the wake of new legislation in Spain that requires companies to draw up such plans: 
 
1. Create a commission for real equality between women and men. 
 
2. The commission should be made up of the company and the signatory trade unions. 
 
3. This commission will do a diagnosis of the situation on the basis of all data that a company provides, which will always be broken down by sex: 
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• Work site, fixed employees, casuals, type of contract; 
• Departments; 
• Work groups, seniority; 
• Wages and salaries; 
• Schedules, shifts (night), working time; 
• Reductions in working time, flexibility; 
• Leave time; 
• Training, continuous, how much training per year; 
• Content of risk assessment; 
• Is the mutual society elected in consent with trade union consent?; 
• Are there agreements with the mutual society for more benefits?; 
• Are examinations extended with specific proof?; 
• Are there suitable jobs for pregnant women? 
 
and also
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 <div align="justify">Composition of the Works Council; </div>
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 <li>Composition of the Health and Safety Committee; 
 Composition of the Environmental Protection Committee; </li>
 <li>Composition of the Equality Committee. 
 </li>
 <li>What sector does the company belong to? </li>
 <li>What agreement is applied? </li>
 <li>How many sites does it have? </li>
 <li>If it is a multinational, in what countries is it present? </li>
 <li>Does it have a committee to coordinate the different sites and how is it made up? </li>
 <li>Do trade unions participate? </li>
 <li>Do they meet regularly? </li>
 <li>Is there some plan or equality project? </li>
</ul>
A company must provide this data to the commission, and once it has studied it, the commission will define a work plan for each site to follow. Then, as a result, the objectives must be fixed to eliminate inequalities. 
 
For that purpose, deadlines, measures, and resources must be identified, both human and financial resources. 
 
On the basis of this diagnosis, the commission can decide what steps it needs to take and what advice it requires in order to establish measures, such as establishing a code of good practice, which, among other criteria, will explain the kinds of conduct and abuse that would be punishable, or even lead to dismissal in case of sexual harassment or sex discrimination. 
 
These are the two types of discrimination that violate the integrity of the person. The commission will ensure that these situations do not happen, and if they do, that they are punishable. 
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7. Venezuela – New Law Defends Women’s Rights 
A recent law passed in Venezuela calls for jail terms from 6 to 18 months for those who offend, humiliate, or threaten women. The law, called the Law on Women’s Right to a Life Free of Violence, punishes all those who attack women’s emotional and psychological stability. 
 
The law also condemns to prison terms for 20 months those who harass, threaten, insult women, and establishes more severe punishments for lascivious acts, such as forced prostitution, sex slavery, and work-related violence. 
 
Thus, the protection of the dignity, physical, psychological, sexual integrity, property, and legal rights of women is established in public and private. 
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8. Resources
A toolkit has been published by EMCEF and EPSU on equal opportunities in the electricity sector in Europe, and is available at 
<a href="http://www.eurelectric.org/equalitydiversity">http://www.eurelectric.org/equalitydiversity</a>
The ILO has compiled links to ILO publications and sources for statistics and standards. It and can be found at 
<a href="http://www.ilo.org/public/spanish/support/lib/resource/subject/gender.htm">http://www.ilo.org/public/spanish/support/lib/ 
resource/subject/gender.htm</a> (in Spanish) 
 
The ILO has published trends in women’s employment in 2007, and can be found at 
<a href="http://www.ilo.org/public/french/employment/strat/download/getw07.pdf">http://www.ilo.org/public/french/employment/ 
strat/download/getw07.pdf</a> (in French) 
 
The WHO has published a document on the relationship between gender and health and safety problems, which can be found at 
<a href="http://www.who.int/occupational_health/publications/genderwork/en/index.html">http://www.who.int/occupational_health/ 
publications/genderwork/en/index.html</a> 
 
The Social Watch Gender Equity Index has been published, and can be found at 
<a href="http://www.socialwatch.org/en/avancesyRetrocesos/IEG/index.htm">http://www.socialwatch.org/en/avancesyRetrocesos/ 
IEG/index.htm</a>
The European Union has published a report on Equality and non-discrimination in the framework of the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All. 
<a href="http://web20.s112.typo3server.com/fileadmin/pdfs/Reports/Annual_Reports_2006/annualrep06_en.pdf">http://web20.s112.typo3server.com/fileadmin/pdfs/ 
Reports/Annual_Reports_2006/annualrep06_en.pdf</a>
On 13 March, the European Parliament adopted a roadmap on equality between women and men, which can be found at 
<a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?Type=TA&Reference=P6-TA-2007-0063&language=EN">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?Type=TA&Reference=P6-TA-2007-0063&language=EN</a>
IRIN has launched a new book on sexual violence against women and girls in conflict. 
<a href="http://www.irinnews.org/pdf/sow/IRIN-TheShameofWar-fullreport-Mar07.pdf">http://www.irinnews.org/pdf/sow/IRIN-TheShameofWar-fullreport-Mar07.pdf</a>  
 
CLADEM has published a report on the killings of women in Central American and Mexico. 
<a href="http://www.cladem.org/espanol/regionales/Violenciadegenero/Docs/Estudio%20Feminicidio%20en%20centroamerica%20y%20méxico.asp">http://www.cladem.org/espanol/regionales/ 
Violenciadegenero/Docs/Estudio%20Feminicidio%20en%20centroamerica%20y%20méxico.asp</a> (in Spanish) 
 
CLADEM has another study on sexual violence and armed conflict in Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Peru. 
<a href="http://www.cladem.org/espanol/regionales/Violenciadegenero/Docs/CLADEM%20Estudio%20Conflicto%20Armado.asp">http://www.cladem.org/espanol/regionales/ 
Violenciadegenero/Docs/CLADEM%20Estudio%20Conflicto%20Armado.asp</a>
The Inter-Parliamentary Union has done a survey on women in parliament worldwide. 
<a href="http://www.ipu.org/pdf/publications/wmn06-e.pdf">http://www.ipu.org/pdf/publications/wmn06-e.pdf</a>  
 
The Belgian Union FGTB organised a meeting on work-life balance on 8-9 March, the results of which can be found at 
<a href="http://www.fgtb.be/code/fr/c18_0000.htm">http://www.fgtb.be/code/fr/c18_0000.htm</a> (in French and Dutch)

ICEM WOMEN’S BULLETIN 21

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Worker safety institutes in Australia have almost unanimously said the advent of Prime Minister John Howard’s WorkChoices law will ultimately be detrimental to workplace safety. Now comes wisdom from another organisation, the Victorian Safety Institute of Australia. 
 
The institute says the government’s labour reforms, which dramatically changed union rights and employment rights, will pose the biggest threat to workplace safety since asbestos. 
 
Speaking prior to a Safety in Action conference held recently in Melbourne, the Victorian Safety Institute’s vice president, Kevin Jones said: “WorkChoices is opening a Pandora’s box of new health problems stemming from stress and high workloads. It’s the greatest threat to workers’ health since asbestos, because it harms people from all walks of life in such an insidious way – millions of Australians will suffer its potentially devastating effects.”

Australia: WorkChoices Law Brings ‘Undeniable’ Damage to Workplace Safety

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Austrian trade union federation OeGB will hold a candle-lighting ceremony in front of its headquarters in Vienna on Friday, 27 April, to mark Workers’ Memorial Day. OeGB President Rudolf Hundstorfer will also speak at this public event. 
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Hundstorfer's speech will mark the start of the federation's drive to have the 28 April day recognised by the government of Austria as the official International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers. The federation has urged its member unions across Austria to conduct similar public events, and is encouraging trade unionists to mark the day with candle-lighting ceremonies inside their workplaces.

Austria: National Centre OeGB to Conduct Commemorative Event on 27 April

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ICEM affiliate National Union of Petroleum Workers in Côte-d’Ivoire (SYNTEPCI-UGTCI) is using the days around 28 April’s International Commemoration Day for Dead and Injured Workers to mark a milestone: refinery workers have now worked 2,000 consecutive days at the Société Ivoirienne de Raffinage in Abidjan without a work accident. 
 
SYNTEPCI has already marked the event with a 19 April “Open Door” at the refinery to highlight the achievements at the enterprise, as well as a 21 April National Day on Health and Safety. 
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On 26-27 April, the refinery’s Health and Safety Committee will take part in a training seminar, which will specifically address establishing national coordination of all workplace safety and health committees. 
 
On 28 April, the union will pay tribute to comrades working at the refinery in a ceremony attended by the president of the country. Later that day, the Ministries of Work and Public Affairs will air a message on safety at work across Côte-d’Ivoire radio and television. 
 
The ICEM congratulates the workers at this oil enterprise for their exemplary safety record, as well as SYNTEPCI and its General Secretary Adolpe Gyayoro for organising the work-safety events in Côte-d’Ivoire.

Ivory Coast: Petrol Affiliate Celebrates 2,000 Days Without a Work Accident

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In Japan, “karoshi,” or death from overwork, is not a new phenomenon. But now it has become a topic inside the Japanese parliamentary system, as lawmakers of the Diet begin considering revisions to the Labor Standards Act, which regulates work time and salary. 
 
At the centre of the political debate is the issue of excessive overtime, as well as the question if overtime pay should be raised from the current 1.25 times regular pay for work performed over and above eight hours a day, or 40 hours per week. According to the Japan Times, the government drafted a bill to raise overtime pay, but also included a white-collar exclusion rule to overtime pay. Supervisory and management ranks are already excluded from overtime pay. 
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The issue is expected to be hotly contested in political debates this year, and into the future. Employers are seeking workplace flexibility by giving workers a choice in the hours they work, figuring this will bring greater efficiency. But the unions counter that the white-collar exclusion rule will lead to heavier work loads and continuation of conditions that bring on “karoshi.” 
 
In 2003, the Japanese government began collecting figures on “karoshi,” using application and awards of workers’ compensation to family members. In 2003, the number of applications was 213, of which 158 cases were recognised as death due to overwork. In 2005, the number of applications rose to 336, but the government only recognised 157 of those as being the result of “karoshi.”

Japan: ‘Death from Overwork’ Real Concern to Labour Unions, Government

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As an election nears for workers at the Firestone Rubber Plantation in Harbel, Liberia, violence broke out during a three-day strike. Riot police stormed a picket line on 27 April, clubbing and tear gassing strikers. Some two-dozen workers were hospitalised, at least two seriously. 
 
The police violence came one month before some 6,000 agriculture workers will vote on their choice of union representative. An insurgent union, called the Firestone Agriculture Workers Union (FAWU), has strong support among workers tapping rubber at this million-acre rubber plantation owned by Bridgestone Corporation of Japan. 
 
The FAWU succeeded on 9 April in getting Liberia’s Labor Ministry to conduct the election against the General Agriculture and Allied Workers’ Union (GAAWUL), the recognised union that FAWU activists accuse of malfeasance and providing little or no representation. 
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The police force, which included electric shocks from batons, occurred after strikers had questioned contract workers who were unloading rubber from trucks. The three-day strike was nearing an end at the time, with Firestone managers and workers nearly in agreement on issues related to the strike. 
 
Government and local officials denied calling out the police, and indications are that Firestone Rubber Plantation managers called for the forceful police raid. NGO and trade unions, who have been monitoring the longstanding trouble surrounding this rubber plantation, videotaped some of this police violence. 
 
While plantation workers count down to a union election, scheduled by the government for the last week of May, Bridgestone is defending itself in a US court against charges of longstanding child labour practices, other slave-like employment practices, and environmental degradation at the Firestone plantation. The Alien Tort Claims Act lawsuit in a US federal courtroom has been brought by the International Labor Rights Fund and 35 plaintiffs, including ICEM affiliate United Steelworkers.

Police Beat Insurgent Unionists at Firestone Rubber Plantation in Liberia

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More than 300 rubber workers mobilised to direct action recently in Callao, Argentina, seeking a negotiated settlement already agreed to with major rubber companies. The workers marched to the office of the Work Ministry behind the banner of ICEM affiliate Sindicato Unico Trabajores del Neumático Argentina (SUTNA), demanding the negotiated package that is already in place at the major tyre producers, Bridgestone, Pirelli, and FATE. 
 
The labour dispute is currently before a government conciliation process. 
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Earlier this year, SUTNA won 38% wage increases for 4,000 workers at the major firms. SUTNA Gen. Sec. Pedro Wasiejko also has pledged that, in this round of national rubber bargaining, no worker would earn less than 2,741 pesos (€ 600) per month. 
 
The 300 rubber workers in Callao have placed this minimum monthly salary demand as a priority. They also seek the pay packages earned at the tyre factories. 
 
Wasiejko said that across the entire Argentine rubber sector, labour costs are but a small fraction of total production costs. According to the Argentine labour leader, rubber companies can afford the pay raises. Such labour cost increases will not affect the customer or the consumer.

Rubber Workers Take Action in Argentina to Achieve Pattern Agreement

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Italy’s three major unions came together on 23 April for an eight-hour strike against Pfizer pharmaceutical. The unions protested Pfizer’s destructive job losses at a time in which the US-based company is posting record earnings. 
 
Italian unions FILCEM-CGIL, FEMCA-CISL, and UILCEM-UIL rallied 2,400 workers at a manifestation in Rome at the offices of the Labour Ministry and the Economic Development Ministry. 
Inside a mass worldwide restructuring plan, Pfizer has targeted the sacking of 440 research and development staff in Italy, as well as curtailment of antibiotic production in Varese, Italy. The unions also object to the February sale of a business in Nerviano, and cite some 2,200 staff that have been discharged since 2003. 
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Workers at the Rome manifestation included staff from four Pfizer worksites – Latina, Ascoli, Pisticci, and Nerviano – which are affected under the giant drug-maker’s restructuring plan. 
 
Pfizer earlier this year announced that 10,000 jobs would be cut worldwide. The company announced this in the face of quarterly profit returns of US$9.45 billion. Pfizer cited competition from generic drug-makers as a reason for the 2007 restructuring.

Italian Unions Protest Pfizer’s Cuts in Rome

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Union members of ICEM affiliate Engineering Printing & Manufacturing Union (EPMU) in New Zealand were back to work on 4 May, following a three-day lockout imposed by Australian-based Amcor paper and packaging company. 
 
Fifty EPMU members were locked off their jobs at a paper converting facility in Auckland on 1 May. The workers were resisting staffing cuts that would have reduced the factory to unsafe manning levels. 
 
“These workers were prepared to stick this out as long as it took,” stated EPMU National Secretary Andrew Little. “They are relieved this dispute has come to a close so quickly.” 
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Amcor lock-out in New-Zealand
Added Little, “Our members tried to negotiate in good faith and were met with the most extreme and militant response an employer can make. It’s good to see common sense has prevailed and they can now get back to doing their jobs under fair and equitable circumstances.” 
 
The negotiated end of the lockout consisted of maintaining staffing levels without redundancies, an extra week’s service and shift leave, the industry standard pay raise, and a day’s pay to cover part of the lockout period. 
 
Amcor, a major global producer of flexible packaging, last week announced a European restructuring plan that could cut 900 of the company’s 7,600-member workforce in Europe. The plan focuses on shifting work to Eastern and Southern Europe. The company triggered this restructuring in February, by announcing construction of a plastic extrusion facility in Poland.

EPMU Members Win Guarantees in Short Lockout by Amcor Packaging

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