ICEM Global Framework Agreement with AngloGold
The ICEM and AngloGold signed a Global Agreement in Johannesburg in September 2002 following the UN’s World Summit in South Africa. AngloGold thus became the first African-based multinational to sign such an agreement. It was signed in concert with South African affiliate National Union of Mineworkers. AngloGold maintains mining operations in Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Mali, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, the US and Zimbabwe.
The promotion and respect for human and trade union rights, health and safety, sound environmental practices and the promotion of good relationships with local mine communities are at the heart of the agreement. It too has language calling on the parties to meet as often as necessary, but at least annually.
Click here for the ICEM News release on the signing of the agreement.
Text of the Global Agreement (English version)
Further down you can find a list of ICEM articles related to Anglogold.
 Report Available from December’s Coal Conference in India |
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28 January 2008 India Global ICEM InBrief  |
The three-day Coal Conference for global trade unions, held in Calcutta, India, 14-16 December 2007, produced a report presenting an overview of the current, unprecedented growth rates in coal consumption and production, and how that relates to safety and health and trade unionism. That report can be found here.
The ICEM is grateful to its affiliated trade union, the Indian National Mineworkers’... Read the article |
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22 October 2007 South Africa ICEM InBrief  |
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) petitioned South Africa’s Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) last week to conduct a one-day strike. The strike would call attention to severe safety deficiencies by mining houses operating in South Africa in the wake of the near catastrophe at Harmony Gold’s Elandsrand Mine on 3-4 October.
Some 3,200 miners were trapped...Read the article |
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| Ghana Mine Workers' Union Organises Senior Staff of AngloGold Ashanti |
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22 October 2007 Ghana ICEM InBrief  |
ICEM affiliate Ghana Mine Workers Union (GMWU) successfully brought 600 new members into its fold recently. Senior staff at AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi Mine joined the GMWU, and will become the Professional and Managerial Staffs Union of the GMWU.
At an inaugural event on 5 October, Ghana Trade Union Congress General Secretary Kwasi Adu-Amankwa called the integration a milestone event for...Read the article |
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| Near Disaster at Harmony’s Elandsrand Gold Mine in South Africa Repeats Safety Call | ||
8 October 2007 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| Two Workers Killed at AngloGold’s Mine in Free State, South Africa | ||
30 July 2007 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| 2007 Mining Deaths Become Worrisome in South Africa | ||
2 July 2007 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| Disputes Declared in South Africa's Mining Negotiations | ||
2 July 2007 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| Australian Miners Strike Anglo Coal in Queensland | ||
21 May 2007 |
Australia |
ICEM InBrief |
| Gold Miners in Suriname Win Two-year, 34% Wage Hikes | ||
7 May 2007 |
Suriname |
ICEM InBrief |
| Earth Tremors Bring Death in AngloGold’s South African TauTona Mine | ||
30 October 2006 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| Colombian Army Murders Outspoken Mining Region Leader | ||
2 October 2006 |
Colombia |
ICEM InBrief |
| The ICEM - who we are, what we do | ||
2 October 2006 |
ICEM Background Document |
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| Earth Tremor Kills Three at AngloGold South African Mine | ||
23 January 2006 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM Global Info 2-2005 | ||
8 November 2005 |
Belgium Canada Finland ... |
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| Wage Gains End South African Gold Mining Strike | ||
22 August 2005 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| NUM Strikes Gold Mining Sector in South Africa | ||
8 August 2005 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| AngloGold signs Global Agreement: First in Mining Sector, Africa | ||
13 September 2002 |
South Africa |
ICEM News release |
| Text of the Global Agreement between ICEM and AngloGold | ||
13 September 2002 |
ICEM Background Document |
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