International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions
Chemicals / Pharmaceuticals
ICEM World Conference
for the Chemical Industries
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
29 November - 1 December 2006
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349 document(s) for Chemicals / Pharmaceuticals :
 Spain: Renewed Collective Agreement for the Chemicals Sector |
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8 March 2010 Spain ICEM InBrief  |
ICEM’s Spanish affiliates in the Chemicals industry have agreed a renewal of the collective agreement for the sector. The previous agreement expired in December 2009. The agreement, signed 9 February by ICEM affiliates FITEQA-CC.OO. and FIA-UGT, was described by CC.OO.’s Communications Officer Fernando Lezcano, as a model to be followed by others in overcoming the financial crisis.... Read the article |
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| Swiss Chemical Workers Protest Job Cuts |
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8 March 2010 Switzerland ICEM InBrief  |
Swiss specialty chemical company Clariant has announced a further 400 job cuts at the Muttenz site, near Basel, as the company seeks to move production and increase profits. Clariant CEO, Hariolf Kottmann, oversaw the cutting of 137 jobs last year. Clariant turnover is around $8 billion and the company is a world leader in the supply of chemicals and colors for the textile, leather, paper, packaging,...Read the article |
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| Italian Pharmaceutical Workers Protest Plant Closure, 550 Jobs Lost |
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8 March 2010 Italy ICEM InBrief  |
ICEM’s three Italian affiliates, FILCEM–CGIL, FEMCA–CISL, UILCEM–UIL, are campaigning together against a recent decision by British multinational Glaxo Smith Kline to close its research centre in Verona, and put 550 employees out of work.
A joint trade union delegation met four government ministers from the Ministries of Economic Development, and of Welfare and Health....Read the article |
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| CEPPWAWU Defends Temp Workers in Pharmaceutical Strike in South Africa | ||
22 February 2010 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM Visits Serbian Trade Unions, Model Pharmaceutical Plant in Balkans Mission | ||
22 February 2010 |
Serbia |
ICEM InBrief |
| Strike Action Brings Akzo Nobel to Terms with Dutch Unions | ||
8 February 2010 |
Netherlands |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM, IMF Decry Mittal’s Pay Delinquencies in Bosnia-Herzegovina | ||
25 January 2010 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
ICEM News release |
| ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin - No. 51, December 2009 | ||
16 December 2009 |
Ethiopia Ghana India ... |
ICEM HIV/AIDS Bulletin |
| ICEM and Rhodia in joint mission of monitoring in the USA | ||
14 December 2009 |
United States |
ICEM InBrief |
| Kemianliitto and Media Union Become Finnish TEAM, 1 January | ||
14 December 2009 |
Finland |
ICEM InBrief |
| Hungarian Chemical Workers’ Congress Elects New President | ||
14 December 2009 |
Hungary |
ICEM InBrief |
| 5th Congress of Slovak Chemical Workers | ||
14 December 2009 |
Slovakia |
ICEM InBrief |
| Founding Congress Takes Place of New Austrian Manufacturing Union PRO.GE | ||
14 December 2009 |
Austria |
ICEM InBrief |
| Slovenian Unions Demand Higher Minimum Wage, Protest Government’s Effort to Increase Retirement Age | ||
30 November 2009 |
Slovenia |
ICEM InBrief |
| Considerable Wage Gains Achieved by Indian Petrochemical Workers | ||
30 November 2009 |
India |
ICEM InBrief |
| IG BCE Begin Preparations for Collective Bargaining in Germany’s Chemicals Industries | ||
30 November 2009 |
Germany |
ICEM InBrief |
| Ten-Day Strike by US Union against Rhodia Ends on 14 November | ||
17 November 2009 |
United States |
ICEM Background Document |
| French Plastics Workers to Do Another Manifestation This Week | ||
16 November 2009 |
France |
ICEM InBrief |
| Ten-Day Strike by US Union against Rhodia Ends on 14 November | ||
16 November 2009 |
France United States |
ICEM InBrief |
| Social Dialogue, Networks In Latin American Chemicals Focus of FES Workshops | ||
16 November 2009 |
Argentina Brazil Chile ... |
ICEM InBrief |
