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Bangladeshi Garment Workers Lead Charge for Just Labour Legislation
23 January 2012
Bangladesh
ICEM InBrief
Hundreds of garment workers staged a symbolic sit-in strike on 16 January in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka city, Bangladesh, demanding that Parliament takes up and passes a key piece of labour legislation. The legislation has been ready for presentation in Parliament for three years, but the Labour Ministry has stalled the process. Demonstrating workers warned of mass mobilisations...
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Indian Rubber Unions Form National Network
9 January 2012
India
ICEM InBrief
Around 35 trade union representatives from various rubber companies, namely Goodyear, MRF, JK Tyres, Birla Tyres, Apollo Tyres, and Ajanta Rubber formed the Indian Rubber Unions National Network in a workshop entitled “ILO/ICEM Workshop on International Labour Standards and Social Dialogue in Indian Rubber Industry.” The forum was held on 14-15 December 2011 in Mumbai with the support...
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ICEM Report Exposes Asian Cement’s CAL Practices
5 January 2012
ICEM Background Document
An ICEM report has found that the rights of workers in the cement industries of the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and India are being routinely violated through the use of precarious forms of employment. In many of the plants covered by the research, Contract and Agency Labour (CAL) is being used to restrict or prevent workers from exercising their right to freedom of association....
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Flooding in Thailand has devastating impact on CAL workers

Security a Concern as Indonesian Miners Ready to Return to Jobs

UAW Pickets US Hyundai Dealers over Sexual Harassment in Korea

Canada’s Tar Sands, Keystone Pipeline Gets Aired at COP-17

COP-17 Union Panel Stresses Sustainable Industry in Climate Change Debate

ICEM Mourns Deaths of 53 Oil Workers off Russia

Proud Indonesian Miners End Strike with Freeport-McMoRan

Indonesian Mine Talks Continue Today; Union Ready with Another 30-day Strike Notice

2 Million Strike in Resistance to UK’s Public-Sector Cuts

ITGLWF Condemns Jailing of Pakistani Power Loom Union Leaders

Indonesian Miners Resume Talks Again Today with Freeport-McMoRan

From Contract to Permanent Work: Victory at PT Cussons Indonesia

Malaysian Nation Labor Centre Decries Legislation Opening Door for Contract Labour

Wage Talks Begin Again Tuesday in Grasberg Mine Strike; ICEM Calls on Affiliates to Assist

Grasberg Talks Resume, But Tensions High in Papua, Indonesia

Vigilance Now Needed to Implement Indonesia’s Social Security Law

Singapore’s Oil, Chemical Unions Blocking Pay Cuts after Age 62




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