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ICEM Italian affiliate FEMCA-CISL has drawn a line in the stand against any break-up of Eni, the oil and gas major that is 30% owned by the Italian government. As investors study a restructuring of the energy company, the union sounded a warning last week that splitting Eni into separate companies would bring more harm than good. 
 
FEMCA-CISL General Secretary Sergio Gigli said both workers and consumers would be negatively affected, and that skills, knowledge, and strategic synergies &ndash; long vital in the running of the company &ndash; would be destroyed. 

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Sergio Gigli
The union&rsquo;s comments came at the same time that a financial conference was being held in Milan to address restructuring the company. At that conference, American asset management company and minority shareholder, Knight Vinke, known for provoking shareholder activism to break apart enterprises, recommended that Eni&rsquo;s oil and gas units be split apart in separate upstream and downstream businesses. 
 
FEMCA-CISL called such a possible separation a loss of integration that would jeopardize the company as a national model, and as an entity that plays a valuable social role inside Italy. The union also said that any weakening of Eni would erode the company&rsquo;s ability to provide guaranteed strategic energy source supplies to Italy. 
 
Meanwhile, three Italian unions &ndash; FILCEM-CGIL, UILCEM-UIL, and FEMCA-CISL &ndash; welcomed the news last week that talks have fallen through between Eni and a UK private equity group, the Klesch Group, over sale of a refinery in Livorno, Tuscany. The discussions caused a nine-day strike by unions at the 1,000-worker refinery in early September. Eni had insisted in preliminary talks with Klesch that job guarantees be given to all workers.

Italian Union, FEMCA-CISL, Opposes Splitting of Energy Company Eni

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Belgian workers, members of two ICEM affiliates &ndash; FGTB and CSV, are bracing for more job redundancies in the glass sector, as Japanese-based Asahi Glass announced job cuts at two worksites in southern Belgium by year end. 
 
AGC Automotive, Asahi&rsquo;s auto-glass manufacturer, announced late in September that it intends to chop 203 jobs at a factory in Fleurus, Belgium, and at an administrative centre in Seneffe, Belgium. The company also said it was cutting another 68 jobs at an auto-mirror factory in Cuneo, Italy. 
 
Belgian workers in Wallonia immediately began a 24-hour strike upon hearing the announcement. The Renault procedure was invoked and the unions and management are in talks to hopefully restrict the number of job cuts. 

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This week, on 9 October, FGTB and CSC will hold a manifestation in Charleroi against Asahi&rsquo;s cuts, entitled &ldquo;We Will Not Pay Twice for the Crisis!&rdquo; 
 
Asahi&rsquo;s proposed redundancies would further deepen a manufacturing crisis that has gripped the Walloon region of Belgium. The 163 jobs targeted for redundancy at Fleurus would more than half the present workforce of 295. A short eight years ago, the Japanese company employed 1,150 workers at the auto-glass plant. In Seneffe, 40 out of 165 jobs at the company&rsquo;s European administration headquarters are proposed to be cut, with that facility closing and the remaining workers transferred to Fleurus. 
 
In Italy, the initial proposal for the Cuneo plant is to lop 68 of 209 jobs. Asahi also announced it was closing an auto-glass factory in Kitakyushi, Japan, by January 2010.

Belgian Glass Workers to Manifest as Asahi Plans More Jobs Cuts

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Today, the ICEM stepped up its support for the nearly 600 miners of US Borax, in their struggle to defend their trade union rights and working conditions, against an attack from the Rio Tinto subsidiary. 
 
US Borax, located in Boron, California, is one of the few global suppliers of borates, and has the reserves for nearly 40 years more of production. Workers at the mine are represented by ICEM affiliate International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 30. Workers, through their union, have put forth a list of demands. 

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On wages, they seek an increase that will redress their loss of earning power over the past five years in which they saw raises that fell below inflation levels. They also seek to eliminate a two-tier wage structure that was put in place five years ago. On pensions, they are defending a defined benefit plan that the company seeks to eliminate, one that was fully funded until the stock market decline. 
 
On sick leave and medical benefits, the company has systematically reduced levels and Local 30 demands a redress of this trend. 
 
The ICEM is urging trade unions and activists to let Rio Tinto know that these miners are not alone in their fight for economic and social justice in this contract period. Please write and fax a letter (using the model found <a href="/index.php?id=5&amp;la=EN&amp;doc=3428">here</a>) to Rio Tinto CEO Tom Albanese, and be sure to send a copy to Willie Adams, Secretary-Treasurer of the ILWU at <a href="mailto:william.adams@ilwu.org">william.adams@ilwu.org</a>.

ICEM Calls for Support to US Miners in California, Attacked by Rio Tinto

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Mining giant Vale-Inco began production at its struck Clarabelle Mill in Sudbury, Ontario, on 1 October, the first time in Inco&rsquo;s 60-year history that production has occurred during a strike or lockout. 
 
Company management is now working to restart a smelting mill, as well as the Garson Ramp and Coleman mines, using 1,200 replacement workers. 
 
The restarting of production last week occurred without incident. Some members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 2020, representing office, clerical, and technical workers who work under a separate labour agreement not affected by the strike, are being used to do the struck work inside Clarabelle. This has caused the USW to file a grievance, accusing the company of sending unqualified office workers underground. Such action not only violates a provincial Ontario labour statute, but is seen as extremely unsafe and risky. 

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Wayne Fraser
USW District Six Director Wayne Fraser said the union is very concerned about the safety of its members because they are being assigned work they are not experienced at or are confident in performing. &ldquo;This doesn&rsquo;t just risk their health; it risks the health of the people around them,&rdquo; he said. 
 
Striking steelworkers, numbering 3,500 in northern Ontario and at Port Colborne, Ontario, as well as in Voiseys Bay, Labrador, were incensed with the company&rsquo;s re-start last week. A further incident in Sudbury that provoked anger was the sacking of three employees for alleged picket-line misconduct. 

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USW Local 6500 President John Fera
USW Local 6500 President John Fera in Sudbury was furious with the dismissals, stating in a local news account, &ldquo;Welcome to the new Vale.&rdquo; The sackings have been described as Vale-Inco attempting to impose fear and intimidation, just as it re-starts operations. The fired workers will be protected by the union, will continue to receive strike pay, and their cases will be addressed at the bargaining table when Vale-Inco decides to return to talks. 
 
Fera called Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper to task for failing to make any kind of public statement over the Brazilian company&rsquo;s assault on the living standards of Canadians. &ldquo;I have not heard a word from our Prime Minister, I have not heard a word from our Industry Minister, and I&rsquo;ve not heard a word from the provincial government,&rdquo; told the Sudbury Star newspaper. 

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Miners and smelting plant workers of Sudbury and Port Colborne walked off worksites on 13 July in their fight to retain pensions, a nickel bonus, and a host of other working conditions, including restrictions on the company&rsquo;s ability to contract out work. Contract talks began 7 April but failed to produce a new collective agreement for Local 6500 in Sudbury and Local 6200 in Port Colborne by the contract&rsquo;s expiration in late May. 
 
Vale-Inco then refused to move from its concessionary posture in a six-week contract extension that expired on 12 July. On 1 August, 450 miners and smelting plant workers, members of USW Local 9508 at Voiseys Bay in eastern Canada who were under a different labour agreement, struck over similar company concessionary demands. 
 
The strikes have taken on international significance as a symbol for trade unions to block a profitable company from taking advantage of a global recession in order to undercut the wages and living conditions of workers and their families.

USW, Nickel Miners Enraged: Vale-Inco Restarts Sudbury Operations

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ICEM affiliate Oilfields Workers&rsquo; Trade Union (OWTU) of Trinidad and Tobago issued a dire warning last week to the government to stop trampling union rights and threats to full-time employment at state-owned energy concerns. 
 
At a mass meeting at OWTU headquarters in San Fernando on 1 October, President-General Ancel Roget said a week-long national strike, led by the country&rsquo;s most powerful trade union, is imminent by the end of the year if the government and its enterprises do not stop the abuse. 
 
The island-nation has been gripped of late by government enterprises, the Telecommunications Service (TSTT) and the Public Transport Service Corp. (PTSC), taking legal action to decertify trade unions in those sectors because of labour incidents this summer. 

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OWTU members last week 
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Late last week, just prior to a mass gathering outside the industrial court to protest the union decertifications, the Trade and Industry Minister, upon exiting from a cabinet meeting, said ministers would instruct the state enterprises to drop court actions aimed at decertifying the Communication Workers&rsquo; Trade Union and the Transport and Industrial Workers&rsquo; Trade Union. 
 
That was seen as a tangible retreat by the government to growing discontent by citizens angered by suppression of trade union rights in the public sector. 
 
But despite this, OWTU is waiting for the government and administrators of state-controlled oil and gas companies Petrotrin and Trinmar (Petrotrin&rsquo;s offshore subsidiary) to back away from rhetoric that discredits its full-time workforce. The government has made claims that the energy companies are overstaffed by 2,000 workers, and that retrenchments might be inevitable. 

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OWTU President-General Ancel Roget
OWTU also takes offense to statements made by Petrotrin Chairman Malcolm Jones before a parliamentary committee meeting early last week. At a Public Accounts Committee meeting, Jones said Petrotrin&rsquo;s permanent workforce at its Point-&agrave;-Pierre refinery was not performing well enough during a gasoline optimization project, thus forcing the company to hire temporary and contract workers at the refinery. 
 
At last Thursday&rsquo;s emergency OWTU meeting, Roget called for an audit of the gasoline optimization programme, and said workers face &ldquo;a runaway government&rdquo; intent on imposing &ldquo;all kinds of penalties and hardships for the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago.&rdquo; 
 
The government&rsquo;s union decertification retreat in telecommunications and transport appears aimed at defusing possible mass unrest and mobilizations during the 27-29 November biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Port of Spain. 
 
But the government of Prime Minister Patrick Manning may face those protests anyway if Petrotrin and its bosses do not stand down from its demoralizing anti-worker rhetoric that has clearly irritated Trinidad and Tobago&rsquo;s paramount trade union.

OWTU Will Use Direct Action to Defend Jobs, Unions in Trinidad and Tobago

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ILO'ya bağlı İş&ccedil;i &Ccedil;alışmaları B&uuml;rosu (ILO ACTRAV) 12-15 Ekim 2009 g&uuml;nlerinde Cenevre'de &ouml;rg&uuml;tlenme ve toplu pazarlık hakkı konulu uluslararası bir sempozyum d&uuml;zenledi. 

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Sempozyum ulusal sendikal merkezlerden, ulusal işkolu sendikalarından, k&uuml;resel federasyonlardan ve ITUC'tan, akademik &ccedil;evrelerden ve ILO'dan 60'ın &uuml;zerinde katılımcıyı bir araya getirdi. ICEM'i Jim Catterson ve Phee Jungsun temsil ediyordu. Tartışmalarda, &ouml;rg&uuml;tlenme ve toplu pazarlık haklarının sendikalarda &uuml;ye sayısının d&uuml;şmesinden, &ccedil;alışma ilişkilerinin giderek bireyselleşmesinden ve k&uuml;reselleşme bağlamındaki dizginsiz rekabet ve esneklik arayışından kaynaklanan sorunlarla karşı karşıya bulunduğu olgusu &uuml;zerinde duruldu. Bu sorunlarla başa &ccedil;ıkabilmek, &ouml;rg&uuml;tlenme ve toplu pazarlık haklarını ve diğer temel hak ve ilkeleri yaşama ge&ccedil;irebilmek i&ccedil;in sendikaların g&uuml;&ccedil;lendirilmesi gerekiyor. 

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Sempozyum şunları ama&ccedil;lıyordu: 
- Toplu s&ouml;zleşme ve &ouml;rg&uuml;tlenme haklarının uygulanmasındaki son gelişmeleri ve trendleri incelemek. 
- İnsana yakışır &ccedil;alışmanın sosyal ve ekonomik ama&ccedil;ları ile toplu pazarlık arasındaki ilişkiyi tartışmak. 
- Sendikaların &ouml;rg&uuml;tlenme ve toplu pazarlık kapasitesini g&uuml;&ccedil;lendirecek politika ve stratejileri saptamak. 
- &Ouml;rg&uuml;tlenme ve toplu pazarlık hakkının genel ve yaygın bir bi&ccedil;imde uygulanmasını sağlamanın y&ouml;ntem ve ara&ccedil;larını saptamak. 
 
Toplantının oturumlarından biri k&uuml;resel &ccedil;er&ccedil;eve s&ouml;zleşmeler konusuna ayrıldı. &Ouml;zg&uuml;r Berlin &Uuml;niversitesi'nden Dr. Michael Fichter'in yaptığı genel girişten sonra, Rhodia ile ICEM arasında bağıtlanmış olan k&uuml;resel s&ouml;zleşme &uuml;zerinde duruldu. Bu konuda ICEM adına sunumu Jim Catterson yaptı.

ILO&#039;nun 98 nolu Sözleşmesinin 60. Yıldönümü

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Eyl&uuml;l sonlarında, ICEM, Ortadoğu/Kuzey Afrika B&ouml;lgesi'ndeki (MENA) faaliyetlerini canlandırma &ccedil;alışmaları &ccedil;er&ccedil;evesinde, b&ouml;lgedeki kimya ve petrokimya sendikalarına y&ouml;nelik bir &ccedil;alışma toplantısı d&uuml;zenledi. Friedrich-Ebert Vakfı'nın (FES) katkılarıyla 28-29 Eyl&uuml;l g&uuml;nlerinde L&uuml;bnan'ın Beyrut kentinde ger&ccedil;ekleştirilen toplantıda iki g&uuml;n boyunca at&ouml;lye &ccedil;alışmaları yapıldı. 
 
Enerji ve &ouml;zellikle petrol, b&ouml;lge ekonomilerinin başlıca itici g&uuml;&ccedil;lerinden biri ve ICEM'in b&ouml;lgedeki &ccedil;alışmalarının konusu olmuştur. Ama ayrıca, b&ouml;lgede petrokimya, &ouml;zellikle etilen ve onun polietilen ve etilen glikol gibi t&uuml;revleri alanında genel &uuml;retim kapasitesi artmıştır. 
 
ICEM'in FES ile birlikte d&uuml;zenlediği &ccedil;alışma toplantısının konusu şuydu: &ldquo;Ortadoğu/Kuzey Afrika B&ouml;lgesi'nde (MENA) Petrokimya Sekt&ouml;r&uuml;nde Sendikal Temsilin, &Ccedil;alışma İlişkilerinin ve Sosyal Diyalogun G&uuml;&ccedil;lendirilmesi&rdquo; Semineri L&uuml;bnan Kimya Sendikası Başkanı S&uuml;leyman Hamdan y&ouml;netiyordu. 

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&Ccedil;alışmalara L&uuml;bnan, Mısır, &Uuml;rd&uuml;n, Yemen, Bahreyn, Irak, Fas, Tunus, Libya, Filistin, T&uuml;rkiye ve Fransa'dan 30 temsilci katıldı. ICEM Kimya Sorumlusu Kemal &Ouml;zkan'ın sekt&ouml;rdeki k&uuml;resel trendler konusundaki sunumundan sonra, &uuml;lke raporları sunuldu. 
 
At&ouml;lye &ccedil;alışmalarından birinin konusu şuydu: &ldquo;&Ccedil;alışma İlişkilerinin K&uuml;resel Boyutu: Uluslararası Mekanizmalar, Sosyal Diyalog, K&uuml;resel &Ccedil;er&ccedil;eve S&ouml;zleşmeler ve K&uuml;resel/B&ouml;lgesel Ağlar&rdquo;. &Ouml;b&uuml;r oturumun konusu ise ICEM'in taşeron iş&ccedil;iliği kampanyası bağlamında ş&ouml;yle belirlenmişti: &ldquo;&Ccedil;alışma Koşullarına Y&ouml;nelen Yeni Bir Tehdit: G&uuml;vencesiz İstihdam&rdquo;. 

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Toplantının bitiminde, katılımcılar, bir &quot;ICEM MENA B&ouml;lgesel Kimya/Petrokimya Sekt&ouml;r Ağı&rdquo; kurma kararı aldılar. B&ouml;lge ağı &ccedil;alışmalarını şu alanlarda s&uuml;rd&uuml;recek: sosyal diyalog ve &ccedil;alışma ilişkileri; &ccedil;alışma mevzuatı ve uluslararası ara&ccedil;lar; sekt&ouml;rdeki &ccedil;okuluslu şirketler; taşeron iş&ccedil;iliği ve g&uuml;vencesiz istihdam; iş sağlığı ve g&uuml;venliği. 
 
&ldquo;Bu girişim b&ouml;lgede ICEM i&ccedil;in yeni bir &ccedil;alışma alanıdır&rdquo; diyen &Ouml;zkan ş&ouml;yle devam etti: &ldquo;Seminerdeki katılımcıların tutumu, b&ouml;lgede kurulacak petrokimya ağının b&uuml;y&uuml;k bir potansiyele sahip olduğunu g&ouml;steriyor. ICEM b&ouml;lgede sekt&ouml;rdeki faaliyetlerini g&uuml;&ccedil;lendirmeyi ama&ccedil;lıyor.&rdquo;

Ortadoğu ve Kuzey Afrika Kimya Sendikaları Ağ Kuruyor

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World Day for Decent Work (WDDW) actions by the ICEM kicked off last week with two days of activities in Turkey, focusing on the dangers to civil society when full-time employment is eroded and use of contract and agency labour increases. 
 
The ICEM is highlighting actions on curbing the anti-social nemesis of temporary and agency work in Turkey and Thailand as its part in WDDW for 2009, the second year that global labour has marked an October date to herald decent work and decent living standards. 7 October has become fixed as WDDW, and trade unions worldwide are encouraged to use the weeks of early October to publicly rally for sustainable jobs. 

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In Thailand, ICEM-affiliated trade unions, together with the Confederation of State Enterprise Unions, will gather at 10h00 on 7 October in front of the UN Building on Rachadamnoen Road. From there, a march will proceed to the Government House, where a petition will be submitted to the Prime Minister&rsquo;s office calling on Thailand to ratify ILO Conventions 87 and 98, the Freedom of Association and Right to Organise and Right to Collective Bargaining Conventions. 
 
The assembly is being buoyed by the Thai Solidarity Committee, and federated trade unions representing workers chemicals and petroleum, pulp and paper, automotive, electronics, textile and garments, and food workers. Thousands are expected to march. 
 
In Istanbul, Turkey, on 1 October, a delegation of leading global union leaders first met with Turkish trade union officers to let them know that global labour stands with them in preventing re-submission of &ldquo;Private Labour Offices&rdquo; legislation in Turkey. In late June, the country&rsquo;s Parliament moved such a bill to President Abdullah G&uuml;l without hearings or input from civil society. 
 
On 9 July, President G&uuml;l vetoed the measure. The bill would have allotted fees to labour brokers in their jobs&rsquo; dispatch of temporary, and allowed any individual or business to certify as a private-hire labour agency with a minimal investment of TL 20,000 (&euro;9,250). 
Last Thursday, ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda, International Textile, Garment, Leather Workers&rsquo; Federation (ITGLWU) General Secretary Neil Kearney, International Metalworkers&rsquo; Federation (IMF) General Secretary Jyrki Raina, and ICEM Chemicals and Rubber Officer Kemal &Ouml;zkan met with Turkish trade unions, as well as with Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions (T&uuml;rk-İş) General Secretary Mustafa Kumlu to pledge continued resistance to the bill. 

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Trade Union Leaders with Turkish Minister of Labour and Social Security &Ouml;mer Din&ccedil;er
Later in the day, Kumlu, an ICEM Executive Committee member, joined global union leaders in a meeting with Turkish Minister of Labour and Social Security &Ouml;mer Din&ccedil;er. The minister confirmed that the draft bill, at present, is not on the agenda of the Parliament. 
 
Discussion also ensued on trade union rights and freedoms inside Turkey. Din&ccedil;er said his ministry is ready to cooperate with the global trade union movement to modify Turkey&rsquo;s draconian labour code to become more in line with ILO Conventions and European Union norms. The union leaders also met separately on 1 October with Salim Uslu, president of Hak-İş, the Real Trade Unions Confederation of Turkey, and with S&uuml;leyman &Ccedil;elebi, President of DİSK, the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions.&nbsp;
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2 October Press Conference in Istanbul
On 2 October, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) General Secretary Guy Ryder joined Warda, Kearney, Raina, and the four presidents of Turkish national labour centers at an 11h00 press conference. The conference was attended by 60 trade union leaders from inside Turkey, and press representing 18 Turkish media outlets. 
 
Again, the message zeroed in on the growing threat to the living standards of workers under the present trend of discarding regular and full-time employees in favour of temporary and agency work. In two days, on 7 October, DİSK will distribute, in all workplaces in which it has membership, an ITUC manifesto on WDDW. 
 
Meanwhile, the T&uuml;rk-İş Confederation will sponsor an international symposium on decent work on that day at Gazi University in Ankara. The Global Union Council will be present for that symposium. 
 
Also in Thailand this week, trade unions are doing vast media outreach around WDDW and are disseminating the IMF&rsquo;s precarious work brochure and poster.

ICEM’s WDDW Activities Start in Istanbul; March Set in Bangkok on 7 October

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The President of an ICEM affiliate in Chile, Fenatrapech, the National Federation of Oil Workers, passed away at 5h30 on 23 August. Comrade Jorge Matute was 61 years old and dedicated 41 years to trade union work for Chile&rsquo;s oil workers. Twenty of those years were with Fenatrapech. 
 
Matute was the key oil workers&rsquo; leader during pivotal moments and struggles in Chile&rsquo;s energy. Unpopular Chilean President Sebasti&aacute;n Pi&ntilde;era has attempted to sell off the nationalised oil assets into private hands, along with other major nationalised industries. Workers at the National Petroleum Company, ENAP, have been under attack over the last two years, as government attempts to weaken the union to facilitate privatisation. 
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Jorge Matute was central in fighting to protect workers in this process, negotiating redundancy packages and against job cuts. 
 
An example of this struggle led by Matute was at the Bio Bio refinery in Central Chile. In tribute, his remains were taken there on the day of his death, before moving him to Valparaiso for his funeral on 24 August. 
 
Matute had suffered the disappearance of his son, Jorge Matute Johns. Trade union comrades in Chile now take comfort in the belief that Matute is reunited with his son. 
 
Words of support and mourning have been offered from many sides for the popular union leader. ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda conveyed sincere condolences to Fenatrapech on behalf of the ICEM, calling for his good work and struggles on behalf of workers to be continued. &ldquo;We honour the life of a great fighter,&rdquo; said Warda. 
 
ENAP oil workers&rsquo; union President Alejandro Avenda&ntilde;o said that Matute had &ldquo;taught us the important value of the struggle for workers rights in Chile.&rdquo;

Jorge Matute: 1950-2011

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Madhukar Kashinath Pandhe, a steadfast champion of workers in India and elsewhere, died of a heart attack on 20 August in a New Delhi hospital. M K Pandhe was a champion for decades in India of carving gains for all workers, from unorganised workers in the informal sector to the skilled workers that drive India&rsquo;s economy. He was 86. 
 
Pande was an early leader of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) and the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU). When he died, he was Vice President of CITU. He had served as the trade union&rsquo;s Secretary, General Secretary, and President. 
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He was also President of the All India Coal Workers&rsquo; Federation. The ICEM knew him as a tireless and dedicated partner on coal supply, work rights, pay, health, safety and other issues in the mining industry. 
 
Pande was born in Pune, Maharashtra, and joined the Communist Party in 1943. He joined the Goa liberation struggle against the Portuguese and after the Communist Party in India divided, be became a leader a CPI(M) &ndash; the Communist Part India (Marxist) party. 
 
His high prestige in India as a trade union negotiator who delivered for the working class was earned because Pandhe did it across all industrial sectors, from mining, steel, energy to all forms of transport, and from navy to shipping to aviation to many other jobs. He served on numerous national level bodies formed by the government, and his steady voice inside all of them never wavered from the defense of the working class. 
 
M K Pandhe is survived his wife, Pramile, a key leader in CPI(M) and also leader in the All India Democratic Women&rsquo;s Association, and a son.

M K Pandhe: 1925-2011

Archive

Italian Union, FEMCA-CISL, Opposes Splitting of Energy Company Eni

Belgian Glass Workers to Manifest as Asahi Plans More Jobs Cuts

ICEM Calls for Support to US Miners in California, Attacked by Rio Tinto

USW, Nickel Miners Enraged: Vale-Inco Restarts Sudbury Operations

OWTU Will Use Direct Action to Defend Jobs, Unions in Trinidad and Tobago

ILO'nun 98 nolu Sözleşmesinin 60. Yıldönümü

Ortadoğu ve Kuzey Afrika Kimya Sendikaları Ağ Kuruyor

ICEM’s WDDW Activities Start in Istanbul; March Set in Bangkok on 7 October

Jorge Matute: 1950-2011

M K Pandhe: 1925-2011

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