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InBrief is the ICEM's bi-weekly newsletter, published in English, Spanish, and French.

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Week-Long Coal Strike Ends in Bulgaria
23 January 2012
Bulgaria
ICEM InBrief
An agreement was reached yesterday, 22 January, after a marathon 15-hour bargaining session between Bulgarian state-owned Maritsa East Mines (BEH-EAD) and two ICEM affiliates. The settlement ends a seven-day coalminers’ strike in Stara Zagora province that saw ICEM intervention last week. The strike started at 20h00 on 15 January and was carried out jointly, cooperatively, and ultimately...
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Northern Cyprus Imports Scabs to Break Electric Utility Work Stoppage
23 January 2012
Cyprus
ICEM InBrief
The Northern Cypriot state electric company, KIB-TEK, has begun importing workers from the Turkey-based energy company AKSA to break the civil disobedience actions of members of ICEM affiliate EL-SEN, the Turkish Electricity Authority of Cyprus Workers’ Trade Union. That started on 20 January, just hours after EL-SEN had abided by a Council of Ministers decree to halt a day-long strike. But...
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ICEM, Metalworkers Urge Action in Rio Tinto Canadian Lockout
23 January 2012
Canada
ICEM InBrief
On 1 January, Rio Tinto’s aluminium subsidiary Alcan threw 780 Canadian members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9490 out of work at the Alma smelter and refinery in Saguenay-lac-Saint-Jean region, Québec. The callous lockout, as reported here in this ICEM dispatch, came exactly at contract expiration of a prior five-year labour pact and simultaneously, Rio Tinto did little to...
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15,000 Manifests for Canadian Auto Workers in Lockout By Caterpillar

ICEM Condemns Assassinations of USO Leader, His Wife in Colombia

Global Pressure Gets USO President Reinstated at Ecopetrol

UK Strikes at Unilever Continue; Company Refuses Talks

Miners of Polish Solidarność Oppose Minerals Tax on KGHM Copper

Saint-Gobain’s CertainTeed Balks at ‘Common Sense’ End to US Teamster Strike

In UK, BMW Backs Off Closing Pension Scheme, Implementing Temp Work Exception

European Trade Unions Make Dire Efforts to Keep Petroplus Operating

UNIA Jobs Saved at Novartis Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland

Bangladeshi Garment Workers Lead Charge for Just Labour Legislation

USW Makes Last-Ditch Appeal to Shame Vale as Public Eye Recipient

1 March Close for Global Labour University’s Masters Applications in India, Germany

Nigerian Oil Workers’ Unions Strike in Fuel Subsidy Removals

ICEM Affiliates Called on to Support Sacked Colombian USO President Rodolfo Vecino

Sweden’s Industrial Unions Negotiate 3% Pay Hikes for 540,000 Workers

UK Unions Hold Key Unilever Manifestation Before Second Strike Wave 17 January

Indian Rubber Unions Form National Network




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