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In Russia over the past ten days, three miners were killed and one is still missing in two separate accidents 
in the coal-rich Kuzbass area of central Siberia. The accidents involve the same company, Prokopyevskugol coal mines, a subsidiary of the metallurgical company Novo-Lipetsk. 
 
At the Voroshilovskaya mine the town of Prokopyevsk, a roof collapsed on 22 May, causing two deaths. Fifteen miners managed to escape. On 18 May at the Ziminka mine, one miner was killed when water broke through a clay wall. One other miner is still missing, while 12 managed to escape. 
 
The accidents prompted the governor of the Kemerovo Region of Russia, Vladimir Lisin, to write to the chairman of the board of Novo-Lipetsk to increase financing of measures to ensure proper industrial safety and mineworker protections.

Separate Mishaps, Same Company in Russian Coal Fatalities

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  Enactment of the unpopular WorkChoices labour reform law in Australia will reverse the course on gender equality in the workplace, said Sharon Burrow, president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
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<a href="#A1">1. WorkChoices Act - Australian Women’s Rights Hit Hard</a> 
<a href="#A2">2. Nepal - Equality for Women Goes from Strength to Strength</a> 
<a href="#A3">3. USA - A New Movement for Family-Friendly Policies</a> 
<a href="#A4">4. Canada - C$100 Million Pay Equity Settlement</a> 
<a href="#A5">5. China - Women’s Pay Still a Long Way from Equal</a> 
<a href="#A6">6. Colombia - Court Legalises Some Abortions</a> 
<a href="#A7">7. Finland - 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage</a> 
<a href="#A8">8. Malaysia - Give Women What is Fair</a> 
<a href="#A9">9. Mexico - Women Allege Sex Abuse by Police</a> 
<a href="#A10">10. Switzerland - Work-Life Balance Means a High Return on Investment</a> 
<a href="#11">11. UK - Iraqi Women Visit Trade Unions</a> 
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1. <a name="1"></a>Australia – Women’s Rights Hit Hard 
 
The Australian government’s industrial relations reforms have set back women’s fight for equal rights at work by decades, according to the national labour centre, Australian Council of Trade Unions. 
 
ACTU president Sharan Burrow told a recent women’s conference that female equality in the workplace was unachievable under WorkChoices. She said, “We were already struggling….now with WorkChoices we’ve lost the tools to do anything about it.” The tools included the Australian Industrial Relations Commission, unfair dismissal laws and equal pay principles. She said the changes had angered many women who had fought hard in the past three decades to try to achieve equality. 
 
But she also predicted the Howard government’s reforms will prompt a new generation of women to rally behind the cause for work rights. Burrow is the first woman ever to serve as president of the ICFTU. 
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2.<a name="2"></a> Nepal – Equality for Women Goes from Strength to Strength 
 
The General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) congratulates all women in Nepal for the new victory in the fight for equality. The House of Representatives made one more landmark declaration guaranteeing the right of women, by providing a 33% requirement in all state bodies. 
 
It will secure women a one-third representation on all security forces, bureaucracy and constitutional bodies, including Parliament. It will be imperative for every political party and mass organisation to follow the same rule. Moreover the declaration put an end to the patriarchal nature of the existing citizenship law and ensured citizenship to all. 
 
Now Nepali citizenship will be awarded on the basis of both mother and father, contrary to the previous practice of citizenship based on the father’s only. By this declaration all discriminatory laws and practices against women will be annulled. The demands were the major agenda of Nepali women’s movement including working-class women, the trade union movement and gender-friendly organisations. 
 
The ICEM congratulates GEFONT and all women in Nepal on this important achievement in the immediate aftermath of the political capitulation of King Gyanendra.
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3.<a name="3"></a> United States – A New Movement for Family-Friendly Policies 
 
Patti Devlin from LIUNA wrote about the new movement for family-friendly policies because of the family crisis in America. Mothers and families are in trouble. A full quarter of families with children under six live in poverty, at least 9 million children have no health care, and far too many parents cannot afford to stay home with sick children. 
 
Working toward common sense, family-friendly policies, like those covered in The Motherhood Manifesto, will help all families. To support common sense family-friendly policies that protect and invest in mothers, children and families. Please sign the petition at: <a href="http://www.momsrising.org/">www.momsrising.org</a>.
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4.<a name="4"></a> Canada – C$100 Million Pay Equity Settlement 
 
BCE Inc., Canada’s largest telephone company, agreed to pay about C$100 million to workers represented by the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers’ (CEP) Union of Canada. 
 
The union filed suit in 1992 to seek equal pay for Bell’s largely female operators, and dining and housing-service employees. About 2,000 people who work or have worked full time as operators would each receive between C$25,000 and C$30,000, plus an adjustment to their pensions. 
 
“People have waited a long time for this settlement,” said CEP President Bryan Payne. The settlement covers current and former employees who worked for Bell between 1993 and 1999. Most of the people covered by the proposed agreement no longer work for Bell because their jobs were cut in the 1990s.
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5. <a name="5"></a>China – Women’s Pay Still a Long Way from Equal 
 
While more Chinese believe both genders are equal, a recent national survey by the All-China Women’s Federation found women were still in a passive and disadvantageous position in the workplace. 
 
According to the survey, the employment rate of women age 18 to 49 has decreased by more than 16 percentage points compared to 1990. More than half of all laid-off workers are women. For working women in cities, their average income is roughly 70% that of men, representing a disparity of about 7% wider than a decade ago. This could be based on the fact that far fewer women want to have a voice in the managerial affairs of their units, even though China has many more women leaders in every aspect of social life than ever before, said survey analysts. 
 
According to the survey, only about 42% of women staff are concerned with the politics of their organisations, in contrast with more than 58% of men. 
 
While most men surveyed said their suggestions had been taken on board, most of the women said their suggestions had only brought “negative” results. It is this attitude towards the ability of women that freezes almost 65% of women in low-ranking positions, said Deng Li from the federation. “While gender equality is widely recognized in China, the social tradition and climate promoting a subordinate female role in relation to the male role persists,” Deng said. 
 
Consequently the survey found 20% of the men had promotion opportunities in the past three years, while only a little more than 16% of their female counterparts had the same opportunities. 
 
In addition, fewer women have been protected by proper unemployment and retirement pensions, which Deng said will prompt the federation to suggest that the National People’s Congress write “safeguarding equality in employment” into the Law on the Protection of Women’s Rights and Interests. 
 
“Discrimination against women has become the most severe problem in the employment market in China, ranging from higher recruitment requirements for women to scarce promotion opportunities and humiliating workplace abuse,” Deng said. 
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6. <a name="6"></a>Colombia – Court Legalises Some Abortions 
 
Colombia’s highest court has legalized abortion under limited circumstances. The decision is expected to embolden women’s rights groups across Latin America to use courts in their countries to try to roll back some of the world’s most stringent abortion laws. 
 
The court overturned Colombia’s complete ban on abortion and ruled that the procedure would be permitted when the life of a mother was in danger, or the foetus was expected to die or in cases of rape or incest. 
 
The lawyer in Bogotá who brought the case fought on the grounds that Colombia was violating its own commitments to international human rights treaties ensuring a woman’s right to life and health. The court, explaining its decision, said the life of a foetus could not be put ahead of the life of the mother, and called the complete ban “disproportionate” and “irrational.” Advocates of abortion rights say the arguments are applicable to other Latin American countries as well. 
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7. <a name="7"></a>Finland – 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage 
 
Finns are celebrating a century of being the first country to grant women full political rights. On the First of June, 1906, a law was enacted giving all citizens the right to vote and full political rights for women, the first country in the world to do so. A year later, 19 women were elected into the 200-member single chamber. In 1893, New Zealand became the first country permitting women to vote, but it initially did not allow them to compete in elections. 
 
Finland’s Foreign Minister, Erkki Tuomioja, said the country was among “the most advanced nations in gender equality. We’re not perfect, we have a lot to do still, but we are an example for the rest of the world,” Tuomioja said in an article distributed by the Associated Press. 
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8. <a name="8"></a>Malaysia – Give Women What is Fair 
 
Referring to the complaint that salary should not be the basis for maternity pay, companies still treat women indifferently, especially when it comes to maternity leave. Employers could be charged in court if they sack a female employee just because she is pregnant, as provided by the 1955 Employment Act. Many companies give two months’ paid maternity leave (up to the fifth child), even though their salaries are above RM 1,500. 
 
Efforts are being made to amend the Employment Act for the definition of workers to include those who earn more than RM 1,500. The Malaysian government has not ratified ILO Convention 183 on maternity protection, which sets a requirement for 14 weeks’ paid maternity leave, parenting leave for the spouse, breastfeeding breaks for nursing mothers and provision of childcare centres. 
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9.<a name="9"></a> Mexico – Women Allege Sex Abuse by Police 
 
Mexico’s human rights agency said on 30 May it has filed complaints with prosecutors after nearly two dozen women claimed they were raped or sexually abused by police following a violent protest. 
 
The allegations are the most serious to arise against police, frequently accused of corruption and violence, during the administration of President Fox, said Guillermo Ibarra, coordinator-general of projects and communication for the Mexican National Human Rights Commission. He said seven women reported that they were raped and 16 others, including three foreign nationals, said they were sexually abused by police who detained them after violent clashes last week in the town of San Salvador Atenco. 
 
Ibarra said his panel has filed criminal complaints with the attorney general’s office in the central state of Mexico, where local, state and federal police officers have been accused by the women in the alleged abuses. 
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10. <a name="10"></a>Switzerland – Work-Life Balance Means a High Return on Investment 
 
The Swiss union UNIA has found that work-life balance is profitable for companies; that it provides an 8% return on investment. 
 
A government study proves this figure for three reasons. Mothers come back to work after their maternity leave, which lowers the rate of fluctuation and reduces costs for new hiring. New hiring costs for bringing low-paid workers (CHF 4,000 to 90,000) on to payrolls is significant, and making better use of part-time workers means that companies use their human resources more efficiently. And finally, work-life balance makes it possible for mothers to have qualified careers in spite of their family responsibilities. Motivation and company image were not taken into account in these figures. 
 
In addition, in the chemical and pharmaceuticals industry in the Basel region, UNIA managed to boost maternity leave from 16 to 18 weeks. 
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11.<a name="11"></a> United Kingdom – Iraqi Women Visit Trade Unions 
 
Iraqi and Kurdish women trade unionists visited the UK in March with the support of the Trades Union Congress, and unions Unison and Amicus. 
 
The delegation consisted of Nazanin T. Ali, Head of Women’s Affairs at the Kurdistan Workers Syndicate, member of the Service Workers Union; Hoda S Rafiq, member of the Kurdistan Journalists’ Union, who works for the Kurdistan Workers Syndicate newspaper; Hassana Abdulsatar, member of the Mechanics, Metal and Printing Workers Union, and a member of her union’s women’s committee; and Violet Issa Qalaab, President of the Oil and Gas Workers Union Al Zubair Branch and member of the Iraqi Women’s League. 
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12. <a name="12"></a>Resources: 
 
The EU’s Responsibility at the WTO: Environment, Gender and Development, written by Women in Development Europe and Friends of the Earth Europe, 2006. 
 
This publication aims to contribute to a constructive dialogue between civil society representatives from the North and the South, and representatives from the EU that could contribute to an EU trade policy consistent with social and gender justice and environmental sustainability. 
The first part reports on the public hearing, entitled “The EU’s Responsibility at the WTO: Environment, Gender and Development,” highlighting issues such as the commoditization of natural resources under the WTO, the importance of people’s food sovereignty, the gender dimension of the trade agenda and biosafety. 
The second part consists of an analysis of the outcome of the Hong Kong Ministerial meeting, from a feminist and environmentalist perspective. Available online at: 
<a href="http://www.eurosur.org/wide/Globalisation/WTO06.pdf">http://www.eurosur.org/wide/Globalisation/WTO06.pdf</a>
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Three French unions will join together on 20 June in a strike aimed at backing the government from its proposed merger of state-operated Gaz de France with Suez, a French-Belgian water and power company. Energy sections of CGT, FO and CFE-CGC have planned work stoppages and mass demonstrations for that day. 
 
The government-brokered merger, proposed by Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin in order to block a hostile takeover of Suez by Italian energy company Enel, would break a pledge contained in a 2004 French law stating that at least 70% of Gaz de France would remain in state hands. If the €72 billion merger with Suez does occur, only 34% of the combined enterprise would remain under state control.
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Trade unions in France received a boost last week in their efforts to block the merger when French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said the proposal was losing support among lawmakers and government leaders. The day-long strike and demonstrations are timed to coincide with debate beginning this week in Parliament over legislation to authorise the merger.

French Unions to Stage 20 June Strike Over Planned Gaz de France, Suez Merger

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Further strike action against state-owned Petrotrin of Trinidad and Tobago occurred last week by ICEM affiliate Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU). Workers struck the company’s Point-a-Pierre refinery on 5-6 June in protest to stalled wage talks, health and safety issues, and the suspension of two employees.
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On 11 May, onshore and offshore OWTU members, with the exception of staff at the 160,000 barrels-per-day refinery, downed tools due to stalled negotiations dating to last year. Workers at the refinery did strike twice in March 2006 in order to hasten a three-year renewal agreement. 
 
Last week’s strike action was halted by the union after management pledged earnest talks to reach a new contract, but OWTU warned industrial actions would continue unless major progress did occur. The OWTU has been seeking meaningful dialogue with the company in order to put into effect a new labour agreement covering the period 2005 to 2008.

Trinidad, Tobago Oil Workers Strike Over Stalled Wage Talks

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The United Steelworkers (USW) achieved new collective agreements at two DuPont chemical plants in recent weeks in the US. The separate contracts are long overdue and contain wage increases for USW members that have been denied to them for the past several years. 
 
At a Louisville, state of Kentucky, fluorochemicals plant where 95 steelworkers are employed, a two-year agreement was put in place on 31 May. Workers there had been without a current agreement for the past four-and-a-half years. The accord calls for an immediate wage increase of 4%, while 3% was won effective in September 2006.
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At a titanium dioxide plant in Edge Moor, state of Delaware, USW members agreed to a three-year contract with DuPont that will provide wage increases of 4%, 3% and 3%. Some 130 workers are covered by this new agreement, which also contains a minimum staffing requirement and removes DuPont’s waiver language on certain health care benefits. 
 
At both locations, DuPont has attempted to unilaterally impose cuts to health care benefits, and has supported rival unions in efforts to overthrow USW as the official bargaining representative

Two DuPont Labour Agreements Fall in Place in US

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Led by ICEM affiliate Engineering, Printing & Manufacturing Union (EPMU), New Zealand’s labour movement began weekly pickets on 2 June against proposed legislation in which employers could fire workers with impunity during the first 90 days of their employment.
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The EPMU established pickets outside the electoral office of bill sponsor Wayne Mapp in Takapuna on that day. Further protests, planned for every Friday morning, will happen in Auckland and at selected targets as seen fit. A mass rally is slated for Whangerei on 21 June, and the campaign to block the amendment to the Employment Relations Act will culminate with a march and rally on Parliament in Auckland on 20 July. 
 
The legislation, if passed, would also remove all grievance rights for workers during their first 90 days of employment. The bill passed a first reading on Parliament with a narrow 63-58 vote on 15 March 2006 when Mapp’s National Party was joined by MPs from four other political parties: New Zealand First, ACT, United Future, and the Maori Party, in which three of four MPs voted against workers’ interests. The governing Labour Party and the Green Party are standing with trade unions in opposing the measure.

New Zealand Labour Launches Protests Against 90-Day Probation Act

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The ICEM’s joint project with affiliate General Union of Petroleum, Mining and Chemical Workers of Palestine (GUPMCWP) to develop leadership of women began 10-12 June in Amman, Jordan. Heavily supported by NOPEF, Norway’s dominant oil union, the seminar was attended by 23 women from GUPMCWP.
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Workshops dealt with collective bargaining and health issues, and were led by ICEM Women’s Officer Carol Bruce and Turid Øygard of NOPEF. ICEM’s two Jordanian affiliates, General Union of Petrol and Chemical Workers Union, and the General Trade Union of Workers in Mining and Metal Industries, cooperated in developing the workshops. 
 
Union-building work with GUPMCWP, as well as work in support of unions in Iraq, has been identified as a priority by the ICEM’s Middle East/North Africa Region, and the initial women’s project with ICEM’s Palestinian affiliate was agreed to in 2005 by the ICEM’s Secretariat and GUPMCWP leadership.
A report of the meeting can be found in <a href="/index.php?id=71&doc=1967&la=AR" type="internal">Arabic here</a> and in <a href="/index.php?id=71&doc=1967&la=EN" type="internal">English here</a>.

ICEM’s Palestinian Women’s Project Begins with Training Workshops

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The European Mine, Chemical, and Energy Workers’ Federation (EMCEF) held its 7th General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey, 15-16 June under the banner “The Future of European Integration.” Attended by 200 delegates, the assembly notably adopted a motion on trade union rights and freedoms in Turkey that included support of the country in its negotiations with the EU for accession. 
 
In a letter to Turkish social policy ministers and to Turkey’s chief negotiator with the EU, EMCEF noted the “significant progress” in accession talks, but “that from a trade union perspective a lot remains to be done in terms of collective bargaining and trade union rights and freedoms. Full democratization is the only way towards integration.”
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The motion on the subject states that EMCEF “supports membership negotiations between Turkey and the EU, (and) should end up with full membership of Turkey with all requirements being fulfilled. Additionally, (EMCEF) calls upon the government of the Republic of Turkey to take radical steps towards securing fundamental rights and freedoms within the framework of trade union rights and freedoms.” 
 
The General Assembly also included a panel and plenary session on “Perspective of European Integration in Light of Global Challenges.” The discussion focussed on the future of EMCEF activities that could strengthen the social dimension of European integration. EMCEF intends to get trade unions at both national and European levels to inject more initiatives on this most important issue.

EMCEF’s General Assembly Addresses Turkey’s Accession, Social Dimensions to Integration

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Japanese trade union federation UI Zensen is engaged in summer bonus negotiations with employers at company level and to date, results exceed those posted in 2005. 
 
As of 13 June, 271 plant-level unions have completed negotiations with individual employers. Some 17 plant-level unions in the chemicals sector that are affiliated with UI Zensen have concluded talks, and those negotiations produced noticeable bonuses.
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 At Shikoku Chemical, workers achieved a bonus of 2.993 months in salary, while at Nihon Fine Chemicals, three months was won. At Toyo Chemical, 2.415 months of salary was achieved in negotiations and at Terumo, 2.91 months of salary was won as a bonus.

UI Zensen Unions Negotiating Successfully in Japan’s Summer Bonus Talks

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In New Zealand, the National Party’s assault on workers’ rights in the form of the proposed 90-Day Probation Act has been met by a new website, <a href="http://www.workrights.org.nz">www.workrights.org.nz</a>. A campaign led by ICEM affiliate Engineering, Printing & Manufacturing Union (EPMU) is in full swing aimed at stopping the legislation. 
 
The website will allow the public to e-mail members of a select committee of members of Parliament who are overseeing the bill, as well as MPs who currently support the anti-worker legislation. “This bill is not about probationary periods, it’s all about taking rights from all Kiwi workers,” said EPMU National Secretary Andrew Little.
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The EPMU is leading weekly pickets and information handbilling against the proposed legislation, which would allow employers to fire workers with impunity during their first 90 days of work. The ICEM encourages trade unionists to visit the website to express to New Zealanders their opinion on the proposed bill.

New Website in New Zealand Opposes Proposed 90-Day Probation Bill

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