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Azerbaijan Oil and Gas Workers’ Union Again Wins Recognition, Pay Gains for Contractors
30 June 2008
Azerbaijan
ICEM InBrief
Negotiations concluded on 19 June in Baku, Azerbaijan, between ICEM affiliate Oil and Gas Industry Workers’ of Azerbaijan (OGWUA) and the Caspian Shipyards Co. Ltd., producing wage gains and health and safety improvements for some 1,000 contract employees. They work in the construction of offshore rigs for Agip, a subsidiary of Italian energy firm Eni, as well as repairing and upgrading other...
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12 Dead, 24 Rescued in Last Week’s Coal Mine Explosion in Eastern Ukraine
16 June 2008
Ukraine
ICEM InBrief
The aftermath of the early morning, 8 June, coal mine explosion inside the Karl Marx Mine near Yenakiyevo in the Ukraine is remarkable in that only 12 miners perished. The blast was so powerful that it ripped cable couplings on an elevator shaft to metal shreds, causing sparks, thus enhancing the explosion. The elevator, with nine miners aboard, plummeted down a mine shaft. Those nine and another...
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Contract Workers of Agip in the Caspian Strike for Equal Pay
16 June 2008
Azerbaijan
ICEM InBrief
Negotiations today in Baku, Azerbaijan, between ICEM affiliate Oil and Gas Industry Workers’ of Azerbaijan (OGWUA), Agip Azerbaijan BV, and Keppel FELS of Singapore will attempt to resolve issues surrounding a strike by 1,000 contractors of Agip that occurred on Wednesday, 11 June. Agip, a subsidiary of Italy-based Eni, is constructing offshore oil rigs at Caspian Shipyards Co. Ltd., owned...
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ICEM Expresses Concern over Latest Ukrainian Coal Mine Blast

ICEM Letter To Ukrainian PRUPU Union on 8 June Mine Tragedy

Russian Bauxite Strike Again Flares, Then Ends at RusAl’s Krasnaya Shapochka Mine

Russian Bauxite Strike Ends With Pledge of Higher Pay, Better Work Conditions

Global Events Mark International Women’s Day, 8 March

Labour Leaders Attend Canadian Nuclear Association’s Annual Event

ICEM Contract and Agency labour Conference

Methane Blast Kills at Least 23 at ArcelorMittal Coal Mine in Kazakhstan

Coal Mining and Trade Unions – Overview of Coal Industry, Problems and Challenges

String of Blasts Hit Ukraine’s Zasyadko Coal Mine, Killing 5 More, Injuring 44 Workers

Global Pulp, Paper Unions Put Forward Solidarity Action Plan

4th ICEM World Congress - Speech by ICEM General Secretary Manfred Warda

Contract and Agency Labour - a Global and Negative Phenomenon

Azeri Oil and Gas Workers’ Union Achieves Historic Pact with SOCAR

4th ICEM World Congress - Women – Work – 21st Century

4th ICEM World Congress - ICEM Secretariat report

Three Mining Disasters Take 159 Lives in Russia




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