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<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:51:09 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Mobil Nigeria Upstream Strike Settled; Downstream Dispute Still Festers</title>
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An eight-day strike by 1,400 upstream workers of Mobil Producing Nigeria ended on 1 May, following mediation over wages, benefits, and alternative forms of payment for a two-year period. The talks were concluded in the capital of Abuja after mediation by both the Nigeria National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) and the Ministry of Labour and Productivity. 

The strike by PENGASSAN, ICEM&rsquo;s white-collar oil and gas workers&rsquo; affiliated trade union in Nigeria, had shut in 860,000-barrels-per-day...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2643-Mobil-Nigeria-Upstream-Strike-Settled;-Downstream-Dispute-Still-Festers"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 14:51:09 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Turkish Police, Government Take Extreme Measures to Halt May Day Demonstration</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2644-Turkish-Police-Government-Take-Extreme-Measures-to-Halt-May-Day-Demonstration</link>
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Three major Turkish trade union confederations, T&Uuml;RK-İŞ (the Confederation of Turkish Trade Unions), DİSK (the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions), and KESK (the Confederation of Public Employees&rsquo; Trade Unions) &ndash; all affiliates to both the ITUC and the ETUC &ndash; defied the government&rsquo;s ban on May Day activities last week, and jointly celebrated International Workers&rsquo; Day across Istanbul.
The celebration was scheduled to occur at Taksim Square in Istanbul,...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2644-Turkish-Police-Government-Take-Extreme-Measures-to-Halt-May-Day-Demonstration"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:02:27 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>PENGASSAN Elects New Leader in Babatunde Ogun</title>
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Babatunde Ogun, a 17-year member of Nigeria&rsquo;s senior staff association PENGASSAN, was elected president of the union on 30 April for a three-year term. His election and the elections of several others occurred at the white-collar union&rsquo;s Second Triennial Delegates&rsquo; Conference in Abuja that was attended by 470 branch and zonal leaders. 

The two-day conference featured a sharp exchange on the opening day, 29 April, between Minister of Labour and Productivity Dr Hassan Lawal and...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2645-PENGASSAN-Elects-New-Leader-in-Babatunde-Ogun"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:14:06 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>14 Killed in Gold Fields’ South African Mines Last Week</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2646-14-Killed-in-Gold-Fields’-South-African-Mines-Last-Week</link>
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Last week proved to be a deadly for South African mining company Gold Fields Ltd. Fourteen miners were killed, including nine on 1 May at the firm&rsquo;s South Deep Mine near Randfontein, in the northeast province of Gauteng. 

Those nine were killed in an inexcusable safety breach that saw a chain attached to an elevator cage snap, causing death when the cage plummeted 60 metres inside a mine shaft. Eight of the nine were contract workers, including one woman. Those eight were employed by the...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2646-14-Killed-in-Gold-Fields’-South-African-Mines-Last-Week"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:32:15 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>ICEM Protests Iran’s Brutal Use of Force to Break Up Tyre Strike</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2650-ICEM-Protests-Iran’s-Brutal-Use-of-Force-to-Break-Up-Tyre-Strike</link>
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&nbsp;The ICEM has filed a stern protest with the Iranian government over its use of harsh and unnecessary force to break up a tyre strike at Kian Tyre, near Chahardangeh just west of Tehran. The police force occurred 12 April when troops smashed factory gates and climbed walls to get at strikers. 

Some 100 workers were brutalised with electric batons, and hauled off in police buses to incarceration, reportedly at Ahmad Abaad Mostofi police station. For the first 36 hours of detention, workers&rsquo;...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2650-ICEM-Protests-Iran’s-Brutal-Use-of-Force-to-Break-Up-Tyre-Strike"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:32:30 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>ICEM HIV/AIDS e-bulletin</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/72-HIV-AIDS/2642-ICEM-HIV-AIDS-e-bulletin</link>
<description><![CDATA[May 2008 - 
G8 Campaign in Full Swing 
AIDS G8 Japanese Embassy Campaign Continues to 30 May 
The Global Union AIDS Programme (GUAP) has extended its campaign to contact Japanese Embassies until 30 May 2008. The approach to Japanese Embassies is to urge the Japanese Government, as the current G8 President, to ensure that the next G8 Summit takes action to strengthen health care systems and to create an accountability mechanism on the G8 Nations&rsquo; promises regarding HIV/AIDS. Model letters...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/72-HIV-AIDS/2642-ICEM-HIV-AIDS-e-bulletin"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 18:33:34 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Paperiliitto, Finnish Pulp/Paper Industry Come to Amiable Terms</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2631-Paperiliitto-Finnish-Pulp-Paper-Industry-Come-to-Amiable-Terms</link>
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ICEM affiliate Paperiliitto of Finland and that country&rsquo;s Forest Industries Federation jointly announced a 22-month labour agreement, covering 22,000 workers at 70 pulp and paper mills. The new accord comes seven weeks before expiration of an existing agreement, with both sides commending the negotiations for meeting the challenges of the changing Nordic paper sector, while taking into account workers&rsquo; needs and development. 

&ldquo;The agreement includes numerous positive changes...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2631-Paperiliitto-Finnish-Pulp-Paper-Industry-Come-to-Amiable-Terms"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:57:02 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>IGBCE Achieves Novel ‘Job Bridging,’ More Youth Opportunities in Chemical Pay Talks</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2632-IGBCE-Achieves-Novel-‘Job-Bridging-’-More-Youth-Opportunities-in-Chemical-Pay-Talks</link>
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On 15-16 April, ICEM German affiliate IGBCE and the BAVC Chemical Industry Association came to 2008 and 2009 wage terms for some 550,000 chemical workers. The union achieved desirable pay gains, but more importantly, posted enhancements to future training opportunities for young workers, as well as a flexible, part-time work arrangement for older workers. 

The agreement, which came during the second round of national industry talks, contains a pay increase of 4.4%, retroactive to either 1 March...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2632-IGBCE-Achieves-Novel-‘Job-Bridging-’-More-Youth-Opportunities-in-Chemical-Pay-Talks"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:16:33 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Unite Ready to Strike Giant Petrochemicals Complex in Scotland</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2633-Unite-Ready-to-Strike-Giant-Petrochemicals-Complex-in-Scotland</link>
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Unite the union, ICEM&rsquo;s largest British affiliate, will take 48-hour strike action next week, 27-28 April, at Ineos Group Holdings&rsquo; Grangemouth petrochemicals complex near Falkirk, Scotland. 

The action will come due to company intentions to close the final pension scheme to new workers, and planned imposition of other adverse work terms. The polyolefins and oil derivatives plants at Grangemouth employ 1,200 workers, the vast majority of them Unite members.

In late March, workers...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2633-Unite-Ready-to-Strike-Giant-Petrochemicals-Complex-in-Scotland"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:24:13 +0200</pubDate>
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<title>Turkish Cement Workers, Behind Trade Union Çimse-İş, Achieve New Labour Pact</title>
<link>http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2634-Turkish-Cement-Workers-Behind-Trade-Union-Çimse-İş-Achieve-New-Labour-Pact</link>
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ICEM affiliate &Ccedil;imse-İş, the proud Turkish union representing cement, ceramics, pottery, and glass workers, averted an industry-wide strike recently by agreeing to a three-year labour agreement with the Cement Employers Association (CEIS) recently. The new agreement, extending back to 1 January 2008 and lasting to 31 December 2010, covers 6,000 union members at 46 cement production facilities. 

It calls for a first year wage increase of 12%. The second year pay increase will be pegged...<br/><br/><a href="http://www.icem.org/en/78-ICEM-InBrief/2634-Turkish-Cement-Workers-Behind-Trade-Union-Çimse-İş-Achieve-New-Labour-Pact"><small><b>Read the article</b></small></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:29:30 +0200</pubDate>
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