Sustainable Development / Health and Safety
As a Global Union Federation with many members in some of the most hazardous and resource intense industries in the world, the ICEM takes its responsibilities very seriously. This is why the ICEM's health, safety and environmental work is grounded in a firm commitment to the greater sustainability of the companies employing our members.
Corporate Social Responsibilty (CSR) and corporate governance (CG) are frequently cited as appropriate indicators of a company's performance, and for this reason the ICEM insists that health, safety and environmental excellence must be among the key parameters on which company CSR and CG performance are judged. This is why the ICEM is committed to the creation and maintenance of healthy and safe workplaces in all of its industrial sectors, and to fully engage employers to this end.
The ICEM is developing a policy on Sustainable Development. For the Powerpoint presented at the initial February 2008 meeting of the Working Group that is developing this policy, click here.
 ICEM Holds Quadrennial Mining Conference in Russia |
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28 July 2008 Global ICEM InBrief  |
Forty-one national mining unions from 37 countries met 9-11 July in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the ICEM’s quadrennial World Conference on Mining and DJGOP. A total of 138 delegates addressed the major changes occurring in the industry.
At the top of the agenda of an ICEM work plan covering the next four years was the continuing health and safety problems occurring at mines throughout... Read the article |
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| Colombia Dam Disaster of 28 July 1983: ‘The Night the Lights Went Dark’ on 200 Casual Workers |
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28 July 2008 Colombia ICEM InBrief  |
Today, in Bogotá, Colombia, civil society and trade unions, led by the ICEM electric utility affiliate Sintraelecol, will mark the 25th anniversary of the Guavio dam disaster in which most of the 200 casualities were temporary labourers. They were buried alive when a pair of massive rock slides, totalling 60,000 cubic yards of earth, fell on them in the evening of...Read the article |
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| Drummond Coal Mine Strike Ends in Colombia; Accord Also Reached with Glencore |
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28 July 2008 Colombia ICEM InBrief  |
Mineworkers and port workers of non-affiliated Colombia union, Sintramienergética, ended a week-long strike on Wednesday, 23 July, against US-based coal producer Drummond. The miners shut one of Drummond’s two big open pit mines in César department, the Pribbenow mine, as well as the company’s thermal coal exporting port at Santa Marta.
The strike ended for the 2,700...Read the article |
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| NUM Files Strike Notice on 3 South Africa Mining Houses; Safety Strike Looms at Gold Fields | ||
14 July 2008 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| Mine Deaths Accelerate in China Over the Past Month | ||
14 July 2008 |
China |
ICEM InBrief |
| CFMEU Presses Australian Government to Stick to Renewable Energy Targets | ||
30 June 2008 |
Australia |
ICEM InBrief |
| Unions Mount Pressure on Cause of Asbestos inside Spanish Michelin Plant | ||
30 June 2008 |
Spain |
ICEM InBrief |
| Nigeria’s PENGASSAN Threatens Strike Action Against Shell over Unilateral Job Cuts | ||
16 June 2008 |
Nigeria |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM’s Africa Delegates Attend Relevant China Investment Forum | ||
16 June 2008 |
China Ghana |
ICEM InBrief |
| 12 Dead, 24 Rescued in Last Week’s Coal Mine Explosion in Eastern Ukraine | ||
16 June 2008 |
Ukraine |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM Teams with Labour Groups to Condemn Iraq’s Trade Union Abuses at ILO | ||
16 June 2008 |
Iraq |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM’s Sub-Sahara Africa Conference Adopts Four-Point Work Plan | ||
16 June 2008 |
Ghana |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM Expresses Concern over Latest Ukrainian Coal Mine Blast | ||
9 June 2008 |
Ukraine |
ICEM News release |
| ICEM Letter To Ukrainian PRUPU Union on 8 June Mine Tragedy | ||
9 June 2008 |
Ukraine |
ICEM Background Document |
| ‘Fair and Just Globalization’ Workshops Organised by IF Metall in Sweden | ||
2 June 2008 |
Sweden Global |
ICEM InBrief |
| ICEM Forefront at Turkey's Hard Coal Conference | ||
2 June 2008 |
Turkey |
ICEM InBrief |
| 14 Killed in Gold Fields’ South African Mines Last Week | ||
5 May 2008 |
South Africa |
ICEM InBrief |
| IGBCE Achieves Novel ‘Job Bridging,’ More Youth Opportunities in Chemical Pay Talks | ||
21 April 2008 |
Germany |
ICEM InBrief |
| MUZ Denounces Mining Houses Neglect of Social Processes in Zambia | ||
21 April 2008 |
Zambia |
ICEM InBrief |
| Counter-Summit to Present a Human Focus to Energy Needs Today in New Orleans | ||
21 April 2008 |
Canada Mexico United States |
ICEM InBrief |
