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Rio Tinto Engaged in Savage Union Busting at California Borates Mine
8 February 2010
United States
ICEM InBrief
The lockout by Rio Tinto Minerals on 560 union members of International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) in Boron, California, is now eight days old, and there is no sign that management intends to engage in talks anytime soon. Instead, Rio Tinto has engaged the services of US security firm J.R. Gettier of Wilmington, Delaware, to bus replacement workers across picket lines and to give...
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ICEM Pledges Support to Locked-Out Rio Tinto Workers in US State of California
1 February 2010
United States
ICEM News release
The Geneva, Switzerland-based International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine, and General Workers’ Unions (ICEM) announces that it gives its unequivocal support to the 560 miners of US affiliated union, International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU), who were locked off their jobs by the Rio Tinto subsidiary, US Borax and Chemical Corp., on Sunday, 31 January. The workers were...
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Talks Prove Futile in Ending Vale’s Eastern Canada Mine Strike
25 January 2010
Canada
ICEM InBrief
Negotiations between United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9508 and Brazilian mining company Vale broke off late last night, 24 January, in St. John, Newfoundland, in failed efforts to end the 25-week strike by 250 union members at Goose Bay and Voiseys Bay, Labrador. Three days of steady talks over the weekend, guided by a provincial mediator from Newfoundland/Labrador, failed to bring the two sides any...
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ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin - No. 52, January 2010

Mine Unions in Australia, Canada Reject Xstrata’s Job Cuts

ICEM Women’s Bulletin No. 37/ Boletín de noticias de la mujer de la ICEM No. 37

USW, Vale Spar Over Picket Line, Scab Threats in Canadian Nickel Strike

ICEM and Rhodia in joint mission of monitoring in the USA

US Labour Board Issues Stern Injunctive Relief against Covanta

Paperworkers in Finland, Netherlands Take Strike Actions against Sappi

Ten-Day Strike by US Union against Rhodia Ends on 14 November

Joint Statement of Vale Unions from Soroako

CEP Women Turn Out in Record Numbers at Canadian Conference

Ten-Day Strike by US Union against Rhodia Ends on 14 November

Miners Dig In: Steelworkers Ready Nickel Strike for Long Canadian Winter

ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin - No. 50 November 2009

Vale-Inco Mining Strike in Canada Escalates on Global Level

BP Fails to Correct Safety Errors at Texas Refinery, Ordered to Pay Another US$87.4 Million

US Boilermakers US Succeed in Moving Lafarge Off Contract Concessions

ICEM, ITF, IGBCE in German Port Protest Against Vale-Inco Mine Shipment




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