Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 9 February, the ICEM’s Sub-Saharan African Regional Organisation (SSARO) adopted a moving statement that denounces violence against women in the workplace, most specifically a rape and murder earlier this week inside Anglo American... Read the article

The start of 2012 has seen deadly circumstances facing Colombian trade unionists deteriorate even further. The leadership of ICEM-affiliated Sintraelecol, the Electric Power Workers’ Union, is now being systematically threatened. Sintraelecol leaders Marcelino José López... Read the article

The European Works Council (EWC) of Rio Tinto last week condemned the global minerals and metal producer for its unwarranted lockout of 780 Canadian members of Syndicat des Métallos d’Alma, an affiliate of the United Steelworkers (USW) in Alma, Québec. The intervention... Read the article

Rather than bargain in good faith, Caterpillar’s Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) dropped a bombshell 3 February on locked-out Canadian workers: the company announced it was closing its train locomotive plant in London, Ontario. The US-based heavy equipment maker now leaves no doubt that... Read the article

It was a two-and-a-half-hour high speed drive on chaotic Egyptian roads to travel from 6th of October City, an industrial zone of Cairo, north to El-Mahalla El-Kubra, a large industrial and agricultural city in the middle of the Nile Delta. It is known for its dominant textile industry and... Read the article