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Today, 1 December, is World AIDS Day
1 December 2008
Global
ICEM InBrief
Today is the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. To mark the day, the ICEM has issued a leaflet that can be found here. Since 1988, trade union and civil society efforts have engineered a strong response to the epidemic, and recorded results prove the engineering has solid footing, thanks to labour unions and NGOs. But more work remains. “The fight to eliminate the scourge of the pandemic...
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South African Study Shows Contract Labour ‘Growing Alarmingly’ in Mining
1 December 2008
South Africa
ICEM InBrief
A recently released study by the Human Science Research Council of South Africa’s Witwatersrand University reveals that the country’s mining industry is becoming more and more reliant on short-term contract workers and casual labour. The survey found, for instance, that over 60% of the platinum mines in the Rustenburg area use non-regular workers in order to avoid accountability and reduce...
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South African Parliament Passes Mine Safety Reform; Year-long Safety Audit Still Held-up
1 December 2008
South Africa
ICEM InBrief
Mine safety in South Africa was enhanced on 21 November when the country’s Parliament passed amendments to the Mine Health and Safety law. The legislation must now go to President Kgalema Motlanthe for his signature before becoming effective. But South Africa’s government is still withholding a presidential audit on health and safety in the mining industry. And ICEM’s largest...
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Parliament in Australia Takes Up ‘Fair Work’ scuttling ‘WorkChoices’

Hard Fought Victory for Colombian Trade Unionists

Case Dropped against CFMEU’s Noel Washington, Charged with Defending His Lawful Union Rights

ICEM’s Turkish Coordinating Committee Takes on Dutch Project

Thirteen Dead in Romania Mine Blast

Workers in Pakistan Unite Against Oil, Gas Privatisation

Zimbabwe Trade Union Congress Calls for Bank Run, 3 December

Job Cuts in Zambia’s Mining Industry Causing Aggravation

ICEM Welcomes Affiliation Request from Mexico’s National Miners’ and Metalworkers’ Union

Last Major Pact in Place for Western Canadian Paperworkers

Finnish Port Workers Boycott Stora Enso Exports over Subcontractors’ Rights

GURN Launches New Website

ICEM Signs New Global Agreement with Norwegian Energy Concern, StatoilHydro

Repsol Management Formally Recognises Workers’ Energy Network of Spain, Latin America/Caribbean

ICEM Pays Tribute to US Unions in Key Role in Election of Barack Obama

ICEM Presidium Discusses, Passes Resolution Addressing Financial Crisis

ICEM, European Unions Aid New Zealand’s L’Oreal Workers in Fight for First Contract




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