Members of the ICEM’s Executive Committee discussed and deliberated on the effects of the world’s financial crisis on day two of the statutory body’s annual meetings 24 June. The discussion started with ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda outlining the unified strategy... Read the article

Early this week, workers of a transportation subcontractor at the world’s largest open-pit coal mines, Carbones del Cerrejón in Colombia, will present their demands to managers. Backed by powerful Sintracarbón, the ICEM affiliate representing 4,000 Cerrejón miners,... Read the article

A unique happenstance followed an ICEM workshop on Contract and Agency Labour (CAL) in Guinea recently: the Industrial Relations manager of Russian bauxite and steel producer RUSAL was expelled from the country following revelations at the conference of the company’s horrid labour practices... Read the article

The ICEM has again registered sharp complaint to the Iraqi government over anti-social conduct at its State Company for Petrochemical Industries’ set of plants in Basra. The latest incident finds a new state manager harassing, and then filing police charges against Mohammed Zaki Ibrahim,... Read the article

Japanese tyre-maker Bridgestone’s failure to listen to alternatives on redundancies in social talks has caused a fiery strike at the company’s airplane tyre factory in Frameries, Belgium. The strike by all 140 workers and led by ICEM Belgian affiliate FGTB Centrale Générale... Read the article