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ICEM Holds Quadrennial Mining Conference in Russia
28 July 2008
Global
ICEM InBrief
  Forty-one national mining unions from 37 countries met 9-11 July in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the ICEM’s quadrennial World Conference on Mining and DJGOP. A total of 138 delegates addressed the major changes occurring in the industry. At the top of the agenda of an ICEM work plan covering the next four years was the continuing health and safety problems occurring at mines throughout...
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Colombia Dam Disaster of 28 July 1983: ‘The Night the Lights Went Dark’ on 200 Casual Workers
28 July 2008
Colombia
ICEM InBrief
  Today, in Bogotá, Colombia, civil society and trade unions, led by the ICEM electric utility affiliate Sintraelecol, will mark the 25th anniversary of the Guavio dam disaster in which most of the 200 casualities were temporary labourers. They were buried alive when a pair of massive rock slides, totalling 60,000 cubic yards of earth, fell on them in the evening of...
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Drummond Coal Mine Strike Ends in Colombia; Accord Also Reached with Glencore
28 July 2008
Colombia
ICEM InBrief
Mineworkers and port workers of non-affiliated Colombia union, Sintramienergética, ended a week-long strike on Wednesday, 23 July, against US-based coal producer Drummond. The miners shut one of Drummond’s two big open pit mines in César department, the Pribbenow mine, as well as the company’s thermal coal exporting port at Santa Marta. The strike ended for the 2,700...
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Brazilian Akzo Nobel Workers’ Network Brings in ICI Plants for Effective Solidarity

Rubber Workers in Argentina Begin Job Actions to Gain Fair Pay

ICEM’s Bridgestone Workers’ Network Meets in the United States

Brazilian Solvay Chemicals Network Organises Second Meeting

Interview with Sérgio Novais, National Chemical Confederation of Brazil and ICEM Vice President, Lat

ICEM Contract and Agency Labour Newsletter

Mining Strike Begins in Peru over Government Inaction on Pension, Profit-Sharing Issues

ICEM Women's Bulletin: June 2008

SINTRA P&G Successful in First Contract at Procter & Gamble Peru

ICEM Latin American/Caribbean Region Firms Action Plan for 2008-2011

ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin

BASF South American Workers’ Network Nears 10th Anniversary

ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin

Contract Workers Again Strike Codelco’s Copper Mines in Chile for Fulfilment of Terms

Counter-Summit to Present a Human Focus to Energy Needs Today in New Orleans

ICEM Condemns the Assassination of Colombian Sintracarbón Leader, Adolfo González Montes

ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin




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