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Mexico. Members of Section 271 of the National Miners' Union, on strike since August 8, have returned to work after reaching agreement with ArcelorMittal.The agreement included an eight per cent pay rise and a benefits package worth a further seven per cent, including two more days holiday, two more days pay added to the Christmas bonus and 15,000 (US$1,100) pesos in social welfare benefits for each one of the 3,500 union members. Agreement was also reached on an increase in annual profit sharing (from 20 to 25 days).All increases are backdated to May 1 and the company will pay 100 per cent of wages and credit vouchers lost during the strike. The value of vouchers has been increased from 150 to 170 (US$13) pesos. Other benefits included increases to company contributions towards educational grants and school equipment for workers' children, life insurance, sports, funeral expenses and much more.The union said &quot;the agreement discarded the company's initial plan to make the negotiations for a collective agreement conditional on making more than 700 union members redundant (20 per cent of union members). Nobody will lose their job.&quot;   The union added that the outcome of the negotiations showed the leadership of comrade Napoleón Gomez Urrutia &quot;who worked closely with Section 271 leaders to reach the agreement. The workers are agreed that the outcome showed the capacity, experience, intelligence and commitment of comrade Gómez Urrutia and the correctness of his negotiation and conciliation strategy in pursuit of the miners' demands.&quot;

Striking workers have returned to work after the company agreed to an eight per cent pay rise.

Mexican miners reach agreement with ArcelorMittal

GLOBAL: On April 29, 2009 the IMF wrote that, after years of strong criticism by trade unions, the World Bank had finally decided to stop using the labour indicators of its &quot;Doing Business&quot; annual report that for years has given higher rating to countries with the lowest workers' protection. We were wrong! It was not true. Read again our story <a href="../index.cfm?id=622&amp;l=2&amp;cid=19361">here</a> and you will see how wrong and naïve we were.We believed the leaders of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund when, in January this year, they told a high level global unions delegation that they fully understood the anger of trade union members who are paying the price for a crisis that they have not caused.We were wrong when we thought that the Bank in April was serious in recommending social safety nets to shield vulnerable parts of society and protect the rights of workers (<a href="http://www.doingbusiness.org/documents/EWI_revisions.pdf">http://www.doingbusiness.org/documents/EWI_revisions.pdf</a>). No! It's just business as usual!The just released &quot;Doing Business 2010&quot; discourages countries from adopting social protection schemes and designates governments that do so as anti-business. The recipe is the usual one: reduce severance pay for dismissed workers; reduce or eliminate requirements for prior notice about job cuts; and, get rid of measures to retrain redundant workers. So, Portugal is bad because it increased the dismissal notice period by two weeks, and Belarus is good because it made it easier to eliminate jobs! Honduras is bad because it increased severance pay and advance notice requirements in response to the economic crisis, but Rwanda is very good because it eliminated any requirement for prior consultation of employees' representatives or notification to labour inspectors about job cuts!Congratulations, Mr Zoellick! But, didn't you announce in April that the Doing Business indicator of labour market flexibility which encouraged reduction of workers' protection &quot;shouldn't be used as basis for policy advice or in any country programme documents&quot;? Please, tell us when, exactly, the Bank plans to stop promoting the elimination of social and workers' protection?

The "Doing Business 2010" report contradicts the World Bank reiterated endorsement of improved social safety nets and continues discouraging workers' protection against job losses.

It&#039;s business as usual: the World Bank says that increased social protection schemes are anti-business

GLOBAL: The Global Unions' Washington Office released in August 2009 a new guide on how to use IFC Performance Standards to help enforce workers' rights in World Bank financed projects.In May 2006 the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank private sector lending arm, introduced social and environmental conditions required for borrowing companies to get loans from the IFC. These requirements include the respect of core labour standards as defined by the International Labour Organization.So far 22 labour cases have been submitted, usually with assistance from the Global Unions Washington Office, which also monitors international financial institutions and represents the interests of unions' to these institutions. According to the Global Unions office, the complaints or communications on labour violations have delivered positive results in the majority of cases: in 15 of the 22 cases company practices were corrected (at least partially), the project was withdrawn or additional monitoring to verify compliance was added. In one case unions' complaints were rejected and, at this time, outcomes were still pending for six cases.In January 2009 the IFC instituted a new accelerated online communications form and the Global Unions' guide, published in August, provides advice on how to use it most effectively. You can access a copy of the guide, in English only on the IMF website at this address: <a href="../files/09082609135966/Guide_to_IFC_Standards.pdf">http://www.imfmetal.org/files/09082609135966/Guide_to_IFC_Standards.pdf</a>

Global Unions releases new guide on how to use performance standards to ensure respect of core labour standards in World Bank funded projects.

A Brief Guide to Using the IFC Performance Standards

Protecting labour rights in World Bank funded projects

EUROPE: The European Metalworkers' Federation has announced the dates of the 6th Collective Bargaining Policy Conference where it will launch the 2nd Common Demand on precarious work.Entitled &quot;Jobs, Rights and Collective Bargaining&quot; the conference is taking place on November 17 and 18 in Madrid and will focus on the effects of the current crisis on collective bargaining, current tendencies in collective bargaining, the undercutting of labour costs and the working time debate.The conference will be followed by a press conference to launch the EMF campaign in respect of its second common European demand aimed at reversing the trend of precarious employment.For more information, go to: <a href="http://www.eucoban.eu/EMF/EMF-Collective-Bargaining-Policy/Activities/6th-EMF-Collective-Bargaining-Policy-Conference">http://www.eucoban.eu/EMF/EMF-Collective-Bargaining-Policy/Activities/6th-EMF-Collective-Bargaining-Policy-Conference</a>For more information about the global campaign against precarious work go to: <a href="../precariouswork">www.imfmetal.org/precariouswork</a>

EMF to launch second common demand on precarious employment at its collective bargaining conference in November 2009.

Putting a stop to precarious work in Europe

FIM-CISLFIM-CISL deltar som följer i IMFs andra globala mobilisering mot otryggt arbete, den 3-10 oktober 2009 i samband med IFS' internationella dag för anständigt arbete, som också de andra globala fackliga organisationerna och Europeiska Metallfederationen deltar i:  &#160;1. Den 5-9 oktober anordnar FIM-CISLs, FIOM-CGILs och UILM-UILs gemensamma lokala representanter i Brembokoncernen i Bergamo (RSU Brembo) möten i alla anläggningar för att tala om kollektivavtalsförhandlingarna i Brembo, om den kamp som förs av Brembo- och Boschanställda i Pune, Indien, och om solidaritetsaktioner. 2. FIM-CISLDen 10 oktober deltar FIMs medlemsförbund i den nationella marschen i Rom som anordnas av huvudorganisationen CISL, som uppmanar regeringen och företagen att sörja för lika rättigheter för immigranter och arbetstagare med otrygga anställningar: &quot;Det sker ingen integration utan rättigheter, plikter, anständigt arbete och trygghet&quot;.

ITALIEN

In Serbia, l'affiliata alla FISM, il sindacato metalmeccanico Nezavisnost, porterà avanti diverse attività:•·        Insieme ai colleghi della Repubblica della Macedonia organizzeremo un seminario congiunto su &quot;Il lavoro precario&quot;, che si svolgerà a Ohrid, Macedonia.•·        Dal 3 al 10 ottobre si svolgeranno riunioni tematiche nei nostri uffici regionali in tutta la Serbia, imperniate sulla tematica &quot;Il lavoro precario e lo stress che ne consegue&quot;.•·        Distribuzione di materiale promozionale relativo ai dipendenti di aziende che impiegano personale con un contratto a durata indeterminata o sulle cooperative giovanili.

SERBIA

&#160;In Ucraina, le organizzazioni affiliate alla FISM prevedono di distribuire volantini ed informare i lavoratori sulla minaccia rappresentata dal lavoro precario.

UCRAINA

&#160;Am 7. Oktober wird es in den Unternehmen Zusammenkünfte und an öffentlichen Plätzen Mahnwachen geben. Dank der Initiative der IMB-Mitgliedsorganisationen wird die FNPR (Russlands größte nationale Zentrale) zusätzlich zu den Slogans der Globalen Kampagne für menschenwürdige Arbeit auch Slogans gegen prekäre Beschäftigung einsetzen. Die Massenmedien sind dazu eingeladen, über die Kundgebung der russischen Gewerkschaften zu berichten.Das IMB-Regionalbüro hat zusammen mit der IUF, der VKT, der School of Workers' Democracy und dem Center of Social and Labour Rights einen Ausschuss eingerichtet, um  Ende November eine GUS-Konferenz über prekäre Arbeit und Erfahrungen bei deren Bekämpfung durchzuführen.

RUSSLAND

CNM/CUT<a href="http://www.cnmcut.org.br/verCont.asp?id=19529" title="http://www.cnmcut.org.br/verCont.asp?id=19529">http://www.cnmcut.org.br/verCont.asp?id=19529</a>  Die CNM/CUT wird im Rahmen der Aktivitäten zum Welttag für menschenwürdige Arbeit zusammen mit anderen Gewerkschaften und nationalen Zentralen am 7. Oktober am Arbeitermarsch in Brasilia teilnehmen.Auf dem Arbeitermarsch werden wir folgendes fordern:•·   Arbeitszeitverkürzung bei vollem Lohnausgleich;•·   Mindestlohn;•·   IAO-Übereinkommen 151 &amp; 158;•·   Billigung des PEC 438 gegen Sklavenarbeit;•·   Sofortige Rücknahme der Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsregelungen PL 4302/98 und PL 4330/04.

BRASILIEN

I samband med verksamheterna kring den globala aktionsdagen om anständigt arbete kommer CNM/CUT att tillsammans med andra fackförbund och huvudorganisationer delta i arbetarklassens marsch i huvudstaden Brasilia den 7 oktober.Några krav under marschen är de följande:•·   Kortare arbetstid, utan lönesänkningar•·   Minimilön•·   ILO-konventionerna 151 och 158•·   Ett godkännande av lagförslag PEC 438 mot slavarbete•·   Omedelbart upphävande av lag PL4302/98 och PL 4330/04 om utkontraktering

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