An eight-day strike by 1,400 upstream workers of Mobil Producing Nigeria ended on 1 May, following mediation over wages, benefits, and alternative forms of payment for a two-year period. The talks were concluded in the capital of Abuja after mediation by both the Nigeria National Petroleum... Read the article

Three major Turkish trade union confederations, TÜRK-İŞ (the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions), DİSK (the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions), and KESK (the Confederation of Public Employees’ Trade Unions) – all affiliates to both the ITUC and the ETUC –... Read the article

Babatunde Ogun, a 17-year member of Nigeria’s senior staff association PENGASSAN, was elected president of the union on 30 April for a three-year term. His election and the elections of several others occurred at the white-collar union’s Second Triennial Delegates’ Conference... Read the article

Last week proved to be a deadly for South African mining company Gold Fields Ltd. Fourteen miners were killed, including nine on 1 May at the firm’s South Deep Mine near Randfontein, in the northeast province of Gauteng. Those nine were killed in an inexcusable safety breach that... Read the article

 The ICEM has filed a stern protest with the Iranian government over its use of harsh and unnecessary force to break up a tyre strike at Kian Tyre, near Chahardangeh just west of Tehran. The police force occurred 12 April when troops smashed factory gates and climbed walls to get at... Read the article